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fied as trustees for the poor of said county, and as such are
hereby invested with full power and authority, as a body poli-
tic, to plead and be impleaded, to sue and be sued, to defend
and to be defended, to answer and be answered, by the name
of The Trustees for the Poor of Calvert County, 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 and
towards the support and maintenance 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, au-
thority and ability, to purchase, take, hold, receive, enjoy and
have, to them and their successors for ever, any lands, tene-
ments and hereditaments, not exceeding the yearly value of
five hundred pounds current money, and are hereby empow-
ered and authorized to use one common seal in their business
relating to said corporation, and the same, if necessary, to
change and alter ; and that the said persons so incorporated,
and their successors, shall be trustees, in perpetual succession,
for ever, to be continued in way and manner hereafter speci-
fied, 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 government of the said alms and work-house
in their said county, as to them and their successors shall, from
time to time, appear 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 con-
tained ; Provided always, that the said rules, laws and orders,
be no ways contrary to the laws of this state.
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SEC. 4. And, to perpetuate the succession of the aforesaid
number of seven trustees for the poor in said county, Be it
enacted, That as often as any one of the said trustees for the
poor shall die, or remove himself out of the county, refuse to
qualify himself, by taking and subscribing the oaths or affirma-
tions aforesaid, or become incapable of acting, the trustees for
the time being, then surviving and remaining within the said
county, or the major part of them, are hereby authorized and
required to elect, nominate and choose, one of the inhabitants
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