1844 TALBOT COUNTY. [ART. 21.

ceive and hold any gift, donation or present which may be given,,
devised or bequeathed by any person to them for the support
and maintenance of the poor in said county.

P. L. L, (1860,) art 20, sec. 2.

2. They may acquire and hold any lands or tenements not ex-
ceeding the yearly value of fifteen hundred dollars

Ibid. sec. 3.

3. They may use a common seal, and may change the same at
their pleasure.

1868, ch. 99.

4. Said trustees shall be five in number, and shall be ap-
pointed by the county commissioners, on the first Tuesday in,
April, of every second year, accounting from the year eighteen
hundred and sixty-eight; and as often as any one of them shall
die, resign, remove from the county or become incapable of act-
ing, the county commissioners, at their first meeting thereafter,,
shall appoint a suitable person in his place.

Ibid.

5. The persons so appointed, before acting as trustees, shall
severally take and subscribe, before the clerk of the circuit court
for Talbot county, the following oath: "I, ——, do swear that
I will duly and faithfully discharge the duties and trusts com-
mitted to me as trustee of the poor for Talbot county, according;
to my best skill and judgment, so help me God."

Ibid.

6. Said trustees shall hold their office until their successors are
appointed and qualified.

Ibid.

7. They shall meet at the almshouse m said county between
the first and tenth of May in each year, and appoint a fit person
to be overseer of said almshouse, and such other proper officers as
they may think necessary.

P L L, (1860,) art. 20, sec. 9.

8. They may remove said overseer and all other officers ap-
pointed by them, at their pleasure, and appoint others in their
place.