382 Assembly Proceedings, March 23-April 19, 1774.

Liber R. G.
1774

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 Bequeathed by
any Person or Persons whatsoever to them or any of them for or
towards the Support and Maintainance of the Poor in the said
County and they or any of them may receive by way of Subscription
any sum or sums of Money which 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 Capa-
city and ability to purchase take hold receive enjoy and have to them
and their Successors for ever any Lands Tenements and Heredita-
ments not Exceeding the Yearly Value of One Thousand Pounds
Sterling and are hereby empowered and authorised to use one com-
mon seal in the Business relating to the said Corporation and the
same if necessary to change and alter and that the said persons so
incorporated or the longest livers and successors of them shall be
the true and undoubted Trustees in perpetual Succession forever
to be continued in way and manner hereafter Specified with full
and absolute power Liberty and Authority in the making and ordain-
ing such Laws Orders and Rules for the better releiving regulating
and setting the poor to work and Punishing Vagrants Beggars Vaga-
bonds and other offenders and for the good goverment of the said
Alms and Work House in their said County 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.

[In Case of
Death or
Refusal to
act, remain-
ing Trustees
to choose
others in
their Room.]

And to perpetuate the succession of the aforementioned Number
of five Trustees for the poor in the said County Be it enacted that as
often as any one of the said Trustees for the poor shall die remove
himself out of the County refuse to Qualify himself by taking the
Oaths aforesaid or become incapable of Acting the trustees for the
Time being then surviveing and remaining within the said County or
the Major Part of them are hereby Authorised and required to Elect
Nominate and Choose one of the principal and better sort of Inhabi-
tants of the County in the place and room of such Trustee and so to
fill up the full Number of Trustees of such Alms and Workhouse 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 —

[Penalty on
refusing to
act as
Trustee.]

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 thereof and who shall