Acts. 487

Richard Duckett John Fendall Beall and Nathaniel Magruder for
Worcester County Mess.^rs Parker Selby George Hayward Peter
Chaille Lemuel Purnell and William Whittington for Frederick
County Mess.^rs Jonathan Willson Upton Sheredine Thomas Bowles
Charles Beatty and William Beatty for Charles County Mess.^rs
Samuel Hanson Jun.^r Robert Mastin John Hanson Thomas M^cPher-
son and Henry Smith Hawkins the which Persons so nominated ap-
pointed authorized and named for the several and respective Counties
as aforesaid or the major part of them in Case of the Death or

Liber H. S.

No. 1

Absence of any are hereby required with all convenient Speed to
meet at such Places within their Counties as to them shall seem
meet to qualify themselves for the Office of Trustees for the Poor
of their several and respective Counties which they are to do by
taking the several Oaths appointed by Law to be taken to the Gov-
ernment signing the Oath of Abjuration and repeating and signing
the Test and also taking the following Oath to wit "I A B. do
swear That I will duly and faithfully discharge the Duties and
Trusts committed to me as a Trustee for the Poor for ———————
County according to the best of my Skill and Knowledge and An
Act of Assembly intituled An Act for the Relief of the Poor within

[To Qualify
as Trustees
for the Poor,
by taking the
Oaths to the
Govern-
ment, and
Oath of
Office]

the several Counties therein mentioned. So help me God" The which
Oaths are to be administred by any of the four Persons last named
for the County to the Person first named or in his Absence to any
one of the three Persons first named that shall be there present the
which Person being sworn as aforesaid shall administer the Oaths
aforementioned to all the rest, and so successively the Person first
named that shall be present shall always administer the said Oaths
to any that have been Absent or shall hereafter be elected and chosen
pursuant to the Directions of this Act to supply the Place of any
that shall be dead or removed out of the Counties or of any who
shall refuse or neglect to qualify and Act as a Trustees when elected
and chosen pursuant to the Directions of this Act And the aforesaid
Persons or the Major Part of them being sworn as aforesaid shall

[Mode of
Qualifica-
tion]

be constituted and qualified as Trustees for the Poor of their said
County and as such are hereby invested with full Power and Author-
ity as a Body Publick to plead and be impleaded to sue and be sued
to defend and be defended to answer and be answered by the Name
of the Trustees for the Poor in all and every Cause Complaint and
Action real personal or mixt of whatsoever Kind or Nature it shall
be in any of the Courts of Judicature within this Province and by
that Name they and any of them and their Successors shall and
thev are hereby enabled to take hold possess and enjoy any Gift

[Invested
with Power
and Author-
ity as a Body
Politick]

Donation or Present which shall or may hereafter be given devised
or bequeathed by any Person or Persons whatsoever to them or any
of them for or towards the Support and Maintenance of the Poor
in any of the Counties aforesaid And they or any of them may
receive by Way of Subscription any Sum or Sums of Money which

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