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woman for a period of six (6) years, from the said first day of July, 1916.
And every two years from said day, the County Commissioners of Anne
Arundel County shall appoint one man and one woman resident in said
county within fifteen (15) miles of the County Home to fill the places of
the two Trustees whose terms shall then expire, and in appointing to
any vacancy howsoever caused, the person chosen by the County Commis-
sioners shall be of the same sex as the Trustee whom the appointee is to
succeed.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 2, sec. 2. 1894, ch. 445. 1914 Code, sec. 2.

92. The Clerk of the County Commissioners shall, within five days
after such appointments, deliver to the sheriff of the county a certificate
of the appointment of each of the said trustees, endorsing one of them for
each; and the sheriff shall, within six days thereafter, deliver one of the
certificates to each of them, agreeably to the endorsement thereon.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 2, sec. 3. 1894, ch. 445. 1914 Code, sec. 3. 1916, ch. 661, sec. 3.

93. The said trustees shall, in accepting such appointment, take the
following oath before the Clerk of the Circuit. Court for Anne Arundel
County: "I, .................... in the presence of Almighty God, do

solemnly promise and declare that I will duly and faithfully discharge
the duties and trusts committed to me as Trustee of the Poor of Anne
Arundel County, according to the best of my skill and judgment, and that
I will not directly or indirectly, furnish supplies of any description for
the use of said Almshouse or County Home."

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 2, sec. 4. 1894, ch. 445. 1914 Code, sec. 4.

94. All vacancies happening by non-acceptance, death, resignation or
removal out of the county or disqualification of any of said trustees, shall
be filled by the County Commissioners at their next meeting thereafter.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 2, sec. 5. 1894, ch. 445. 1914 Code, sec. 5.

95. No member of the General Assembly, clergyman, attorney or prac-
ticing physician, shall be obliged to accept said office, or be liable to the
penalty aforesaid for refusing to accept; and no judge or sheriff, or any
person who has not the qualification to be a member of the General As-
sembly, shall be eligible thereto; and no person shall be compellable to
serve in less than three years after he has served or paid the penalty for
refusing to serve.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 2, sec. 6. 1894, ch. 446. 1914 Code, sec. 6. 1916, ch. 661, sec. 6.

96. The Trustees so appointed and qualified are a body politic, with
full power and authority to sue and be sued, by the name of "The Trustees
of the Anne Arundel County Home" and by that name they may take
and hold any gift, donation or present which shall be given, devised or
bequeathed to them for the support and maintenance of the poor in said
county; and they may purchase and hold, sell or convey, by and with the