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Trustees
appointed,
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them, in case of the death or absence of any, are hereby re-
quired, 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, appointed 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
trust committed to me as a trustee for the poor of Queen
Anne's county, by an act of the general assembly, entitled, an
act for the relief of the poor in Queen Anne's county, accord-
ing to the best of my skill and knowledge ; so help me God ;'
the which oaths are to be administered by any of the five per-
sons 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 afore-
said, shall administer the oaths afore-mentioned to all the rest,
and so successively, the person first named that shall be pre-
sent shall always administer the said oaths to any that have
been absent, or that shall hereafter be elected and chosen pur-
suant to the directions of this act to supply the place of any
that shall be dead., or removed out of the county, or of any
who shall refuse or neglect to qualify and act 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 trus-
tees for the poor of their said county, and as such are hereby
invested with full power and authority, as a body politic, to
plead and to be impleaded, to sue and to be sued, to defend
and to be defended, to answer and to be answered, by the name
of The Trustees for the Poor of Queen Anne's 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 judica-
ture 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 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 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 em-
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