POOR
oysters and terrapins, in Wye river, passed at December ses-
sion, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, chapter three hundred
and eleven, be extended to the waters of Queen Anne's and
Kent counties.

POOR.
AN ACT for the relief of the Poor of Kent County .—1787, ch. 11.
The modifications of this act will be found in the acts classed under this
chapter.

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WHEREAS, a number of the inhabitants of Kent county, by
their humble petition to this general assembly, have set forth,
that they are heavily burthened with taxes for supporting the
poor in said county, whose numbers annually increase, and
notwithstanding the large sums granted to that use they are
not comfortably supported under the present regulations ;
therefore,
SEC. 2. Merged in 1830, ch. 151.

Premble.

SEC. 3. 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 empow-
ered, with full and sufficient authority, to discharge the seve-
ral offices, duties and trusts reposed and required of them by
(his act; that is to say, Messieurs Thomas Smyth, Anthony
Banning, Simon Wilmer, Isaac Perkins, Robert Buchanan,
James Ringgold, Joseph Sturgis, Augustine Boyer and James
Pearce ; the which persons, 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 place 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 and subscribing the several oaths (or affirmations) ap-
pointed by law to be taken to the government, and also taking
the following oath, viz. 'I, A. B. do swear, or affirm, that I will
duly and faithfully discharge the duties and trusts committed to
me as a trustee for the poor of Kent county, by an act of the
general assembly, entitled, an act for the relief of the poor in
Kent county, according to the best of my skill and knowledge ;
so help me God;' the which oaths are to be administered by
any of the five 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 afore-mentioned
to all the rest, and so successively, 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

Trustees
appointed,

&c