III.   And be it enacted, That for the time being the several persons hereafter
named be and are hereby appointed trustees of the poor within the said county,
and are empowered 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, Messieurs William Heifer, Lodowick Young, John Ankiney, John Orbison,
Ambrose Geoghegan, Jacob Harry and George Ney, which persons, or the
major part of them, are hereby required, with all convenient speed, to meet at
such place within said county as to them shall seem meet, to qualify themselves
for the offices of trustees of the poor of Washington county, which they
are to do by taking and subscribing the several oaths, or affirmations, appointed
by law to be taken to the government, and subscribing a declaration of their belief
in the christian religion, and also taking the following oath, viz. " I, A. B.
" do swear, or affirm, as the case may be, that I will duly and faithfully discharge
" the duties and trusts committed to me as a trustee for the poor of Washington
" county, agreeably to an act of the general assembly, entitled, An act
" for the relief of the poor in Washington county, according to the best of my
" skill and knowledge.  So help me God;" which oaths are to be administered
by any of the persons last named for the county to the persons first named, or in
his absence to any one of the persons first named that shall be there 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 if any shall
refuse or neglect to qualify, or be rendered incapable of acting as a trustee, when
elected and chosen pursuant to the directions of this act; and the aforesaid persons,
or the majority of them, being sworn as aforesaid, shall be constituted and
qualified as trustees of the poor of their said county, and as such are hereby
invested with full 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 of the Poor of Washington county, as the
case may be, in all and every cause, complaint and action, real, personal or
mixed, of whatever kind or nature it shall be, in any court of judicature within
this state; 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 bequeathed, by any
person or persons whatsoever, to them, or any of them, for or towards the support
and maintenance of the poor in 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 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
five hundred pounds current money; and are hereby empowered and authorised
to use one common seal in their business relating to the said corporation, and the
same, if necessary, to change and alter; and that the said persons so incorporated,
and their successors, shall be the true and undoubted trustees, in perpetual succession,
for 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

Commissioners
appointed,
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