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SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That for the time being the
five several persons hereafter named, be and are hereby nomi-
nated, appointed and named, trustees for the poor within the
said county, and are empowered with full and sufficient autho-
rity to discharge the several offices, duties 'and trusts, reposed
in and required of them by this act ; that is to say, Colonel
George Plater, Colonel Abraham Barnes, Major Zachariah
Bond, Mr. John Reeder and Mr. James Jordan ; the which
persons, so nominated, appointed, authorized and named, for
the county as aforesaid, or the major part of them in case of the
death or absence of any, are hereby required, with all conve-
nient speed, to meet at such places 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 the several oaths appointed by law to be taken
to the government, signing the oath of abjuration, and repeat-
ing and signing the test, and also taking the following oath, to
wit: 'I. A. B. do swear, that I will duly and faithfully dis-
charge the duties and trust committed to me as a trustee for
the poor for Saint Mary's county, according to the best of my
skill and knowledge, and an act of assembly, entitled, an act
for the relief of the poor in Saint Mary's county; so help me
God;' the which oath is to be administered by any of the four
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 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 major part 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 he impleaded, to sue and be sued, to defend and
be defended, to answer and be answered, by the name of The
Trustees for the Poor for Saint Mary's County, in all and every
cause, complaint and action, real, personal or mixed, of what-
soever kind or nature it shall be, in any of the courts of judica-
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Trustees
appointed,
&c.
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