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Work-
house to be
erected,
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SEC. 2. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That there shall be an alms and work-house erected and built
in Talbot countj, at a convenient place therein, at the general
The residue of this section relates to laying a temporary assessment.
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Trustees
appointed,
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That for the time being the seve-
ral persons hereafter named be and are hereby appointed trus-
tees of the poor within the said county, and are empowered,
with full and sufficient authority, to discharge the several
offices, duties and trusts reposed in and required of them by
this act ; that is to say, William Hayward, James Benson,
Thomas Sherwood, Peregrine Tilghman and William Golds-
borough, Esquires ; the which persons, or the major part of
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 yo be taken to the government,
and subscribing a declaration of their belief in the Christian
religion, 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
Talbot county, by an act of the general assembly, entitled, an
act for the relief of the poor in Talbot 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 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 aforementioned 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 remove 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 trustees 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
be 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 of Talbot County, in all and every cause, complaint
and action, real, personal or mixed, of whatever kind or nature
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