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be unable to pay them, they shall be paid by the attorney who
brought the suit, unless the plaintiff shall give security for the
costs to be approved by the court.

65. The alms^house property now jointly owned by Baltimore
city and Baltimore county, until sold under the act of the Gene-
ral Assembly passed May the twenty-first, in the year eighteen
hundred and fifty-three, shall continue to be jointly used and
occupied by the said county and city, under such regulations as
the said trustees shall from time to time agree upon and pre-
scribe, unless by the joint consent of the county commissioners
of said county, and the mayor and city council of Baltimore, any
change in the use and occupation shall be made; power and au-
thority to make which change is hereby vested in the county
commissioners and the mayor and city council.

66. The mayor and city council shall, at their annual session,
appoint one sensible and discreet inhabitant residing in each
ward of the city to be a manager of the poor in the ward in
which he shall reside, who shall take an oath before some justice
of the peace for said city that he will well and faithfully perform
the duties of a manager of his ward according to the best of his
knowledge and judgment.

67. Every such manager shall hold his office during the term
of one year, and until his successor is duly appointed and quali-
fied, and shall perform the duties of his office gratuitously.

68. Each manager shall have power to_ direct in writing any
indigent sick or disabled person, infant or idiot of his ward, and
who may be entitled to public relief by law, to go or be taken to
the said alms-house.

69. The trustees of the poor shall cause the person sent or
taken to the alms-house by order of the said managers to be
received, maintained and employed therein so long as in the
opinion of the said trustees such person may be entitled to
relief and require it.

ASSAYEB OF SILVER PLATE.

70. The mayor and city council of Baltimore shall appoint an
able and skilful man, experienced in assaying silver, as assayer
for said city.