Chap. 301.—An ACT Prescribing Duties and Powers of the Superintendent
of the Poor and Trustees of the Gloucester Charity School.

Approved Mareh 31, 1871.

Whereas by an act passed January twenty-fifth, eighteen
hundred and fourteen, entitled an act appropriating the pro-
ceeds of the Glebe lands, and other property, belonging to the
parishes of Abingdon, Ware, and Petmouth, in the county of
Gloucester, and for other purposes, which said act did appoint
trustees for the purpose, and said trustees, by an act passed in
eighteen hundred and fourteen, and empowered to discharge
the duties of the overseers of the poor, but now, under the
present constitution, the overseers of the poor cannot be dis-
pensed with; and as it is important to continue the incorpora-
tion of the trustees of the Gloucester charity school, and also
that the poor of said county shall have the benefit of the
money now in the hands of said trustees :

1. Therefore be it enacted by the general assembly, That
the trustees of the Gloucester charity school are hereby em-
powered to co-operate with the superintendent of the poor of
Gloucester county, in disposing of the funds in their hands:
provided, that the trustees shall not use more than the interest
accruing on the money in their hands.

2. The superintendent of the poor shall draw orders on the
trustees of the Gloucester charity school: and when said orders
are endorsed by two of said trustees, the treasurer of the
board of trustees of Gloucester charity school, is authorized
to pay off said orders out of any money in his hands belong-
ing to said trustees.

3. It is hereby expressly prohibited that any officer shall be
paid (for any services he may render) from the funds now in
the hands of the trustees of the Gloucester charity school, ex-
cept what is now provided by law.

4, This act shall be in force from its passage.