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who shall reside within the same, in the same manner as the

public and county levies are collected ; and the said tobacco,

when so as aforesaid collected, shall be paid by such sheriffs

respectively to such trustees for the poor, or the major part of

them, as ate by this act appointed, who are hereby authorized

and required to receive and apply the same to the uses and pur-

poses herein after directed.

SEC. 3 Provided always, and be it enacted. That it shall and

Proviso.

may be lawful for the several and respective taxable inhabitants

within every of the said counties, to pay and discharge the

said several assessments m money, in the same manner as they

are enabled to pay and discharge the public or county levy.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted. That for the time being

Trustees

the five several persons hereafter named for each county, be,

appointed,
&c

and aie hereby nominated, appointed and named, trustees for

the poor within their seveial and respective counties, and are

empowered with full and sufficient authority for discharging the

seveial offices, duties and trusts reposed 111 and required of them

by this act, within the several and respective counties wherein

they reside; that is to say, for Anne Arundel county, Messieurs

Brice Thomas Beale Worthington, Thomas Dorsey, Nicholas

Worthington, Lancelot Jacques and Upton Scott ; for Prince

George's county, Messieurs John Baynes, William Bowie,

Richard Duckett, John Fendail Beall and Nathaniel Magruder;

for Worcester county, Messieurs Parker Selby, George Hay-

waid, Peter Chaille, Lemuel Puinell and William Whittington ;

for Fredenck county, Messieurs Jonathan Wilson, Upton Shere-

dine, Thomas Bowles, Charles Beatty and William Beatty ; for

Charles county, Messieurs Samuel Hanson, junior, Robert

Mastin, John Hanson, Thomas M'Pherson and Henry Smith

Hawkins; the which persons, so nominated, appointed, autho-

rized and named, for the several and respective counties as

aforesaid, or the major part of them in case of the death or ab-

sence of any, are hereby required, with all convenient speed, to

meet at such places within their counties as to them shall seern

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

government, signing the oath of abjuration, and repeating and

signing the tost, 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, entitled, an act for the relief of the poor

within the several counties therein mentioned ; so help me

GOD ; the which oaths are to be administered by any of the

four persons last named for the county to the person first