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LAWS OF MARYLAND,

of each session of the said Court, give the said
crier and sheriff a certificate of the number of days
for which they are respectively entitled to said per
diem.

In force

Sec. 2 And le if, enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved February 18, 18GS.

CHAPTER 31.

AN ACT to repeal Sections one, two, three, nine,
eleven and nineteen of Article twenty-one, of
the Code of Public Local Laws, entitled "Wash-
ington County," sub-title, "Alms House,'
and to re-enact the same with amendments.

Repeal

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Sections one, two, three, nine,
eleven and nineteen of Article twenty-one, of the
Code of Public Local Laws, entitled "Washington

Re-enacted

County," sab-title, "Alms House," be and the
same are hereby repealed, and re-enacted so as to
read as follows :

Trustees of
the poor.

Sec. 1. The County Commissioners of Washing-
ton County shall on or before the first Monday of
March, in each and every year, appoint three dis-
creet persons, inhabitants of said county, to act as
trustees of the poor in said county, from and after
the reception of their commissions, and qualify as
said trustees, and to act in such capacity until their
successors shall he appointed.

Sec. 2. The clerk of the County Commissioners
shall, within five days after such appointment,
make out and deliver to each of said trustees, so

Certificate.

appointed, a certificate of his appointment.

Sec. 3. The trustees, so appointed, and notified
of their appointment, under the penalty of twenty-
five dollars, shall accept said office, and shall meet

Qualify,

within ten days after then said appointment, at
the Alms House of said county, and qualify by
taking the following oath : I do solemnly swear or