488 Assembly Proceedings, May 24-June 22, 1768.

Liber H. S.
No. 1

shall or may be given for the better and more speedy promoting the
Benefit and Good by this Act intended And that they have full
Power Authority lawful Capacity and Ability to Purchase take hold
receive enjoy and have to them and their Successors for ever any
Lands Tenements and Hereditaments not exceeding the Yearly
Value of one thousand Pounds of any Person or Persons what-

[and to use
a Common
Seal in their
business &c.]

soever and are hereby impowered and authorized to use one Com-
mon Seal in their Business relating to the said Corporation and the
same at their pleasure to change and alter And that the said Persons
so incorporated the longest Livers and Successors of them shall be
the true sole and undoubted Trustees in perpetual Succession for

[and to make
Laws &c. for
the better
Relief of the
Poor, and
Punishing
Vagrants,
&c.]

ever to be continued in Way and Manner hereafter specified with
full and absolute Power Liberty and Authority in the making and
ordaining such Laws Orders and Rules for the better relieving
regulating and setting the Poor to Work and punishing Vagrants
Beggars Vagabonds and other Offenders and for the Good Govern-
ment of the said Alms and Work-House in their respective Counties
as to them and their Successors shall from Time to Time seem
most fit and requisite all which shall be observed by the Overseer of
such Alms and Work-House and by all Poor, Beggars, Vagrants
Vagabonds and other Offenders in such Alms and Work House
under the Penalties therein contained

[Proviso]

Provided always that the said Rules Laws and Orders be no wise
contrary to the Laws of this Province And to perpetuate the Suc-
cession of the aforementioned Number of five Trustees for the
Poor in each of the said Counties.

[In case of
Death or
Removal of
any of the
said Trus-
tees, the
Survivors to
nominate
others &c.]

Be it Enacted That as often as any one or more of the said
Trustees for the Poor shall die or remove himself out of his County
that then and so often the Trustees for the Time being then surviv-
ing and remaining within the said County or the major Part of them
be and are hereby authorized and required to elect nominate and
chuse one or more of the principal and better sort of the Inhabitants
of the County not being related in Blood to any other of the then
Trustees into the place and Room of the said Trustee so dead or
removed and so to fill up the full Number of Trustees for each Alms
and Work-House the which Persons so elected and chosen from
Time to Time are always to be qualified in the same Manner as
before by this Act is directed

[Trustees
appointed for
the Poor,
and refusing
to Act,
forfeit 10 l.

And be it further Enacted That every Person by this Act appointed
as a Trustee for the Poor or that shall hereafter be nominated and
appointed as such pursuant to the Directions hereof and who shall
wilfully refuse or delay to take upon him the said Office shall fforfeit
and pay for every such Refusal or Delay the sum of ten Pounds
Current Money

[Proviso]

Provided that no Member of the upper or lower House of As-
sembly Clergyman Attorney or practising Phisician be obliged to