220 Assembly Proceedings, November 16-December 23, 1773.

Liber R. G.
1773

in the same Manner as they are enabled to pay and discharge the
public or County Levy —

[Trustees.]

And be it further enacted That for the Time being the five several
persons hereafter named be and are hereby nominated appointed and
names Trustees for the Poor within the said County and are em-
powered with full and sufficient Authority to discharge the several
Offices Duties and Trusts reposed in and required of them by this
Act That is to say Col.^o George Plater, Col.^o Abraham Barnes,
Major Zachariah Bond, M.^r John Reeder, and M.^r James Jordan,

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The which Persons so nominated Appointed Authorized and named,
for the County as aforesaid, or the Major Part of them in Case of the
Death or Absence of any are hereby required, with all convenient
Speed to meet at such Places within their County as to them shall
seem meet to Qualify themselves for the Office of Trustees for the
Poor of their County which they are to do by taking the several
Oaths appointed by Law to be taken to the Goverment Signing the
Oath of Abjuration and repeating and Signing the Test and also

[Their
oath]

taking the following Oath to Wit I AB do swear That I will duly
and faithfully discharge the Duties and Trusts committed to me
as a Trustee for the Poor for Saint Marys County according to the
best of my Skill and Knowledge and an Act of Assembly entitled
An Act for the Relief of the Poor in Saint Marys County So help
me God The which Oath is to be administered 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 suc-
cessively the Person first named that shall be present shall always
administer the said Oaths, to any that have been absent, or that
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 County, or of any who shall refuse or neglect to qualify
and act as a Trustee when elected and chosen Pursuant to the Di-
rections of this Act: And the aforesaid Persons or the Major Part
of them being Sworn as aforesaid shall be constituted and Qualified

[Trustees
invested
with Power
and Author-
ity as a
Body politic,

&-C.]

as Trustees for the Poor of their said County and as such are hereby
invested with full Power and Authority as a Body Politic, 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 for Saint Marys County 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 they
are hereby enabled to take hold possess and enjoy any Gift Donation
or Present which shall or may hereafter be given devised or be-
queathed by any Person or Persons whatsoever, to them or any of