ART. 5.] CALVERT COUNTY. 351
ALMS-HOUSE.

SECTION 1. The county commissioners of Calvert county, at
their annual meeting for making a levy, shall appoint three
sensible and discreet men trustees of the poor for Calvert
county.

2. In case of death, resignation, refusal to act, removal out of the
county, or disqualification of any of said trustees, the remainder
of said trustees shall fill the vacancy until the next annual meet-
ing of the county commissioners.

3. Each 'trustee of the poor shall be allowed two dollars for
each day he shall attend on the business of his office.

4. Each trustee of the poor shall, before entering upon the
duties of his office, take and subscribe the following oath; "I, A.
B., do swear that I will duly and faithfully discharge the duties
and trusts committed to me as trustee of the poor of Calvert
county, according to the best of my skill and knowledge, so help
me God."

5. The said trustees so appointed and qualified are hereby in-
vested with power and authority, as a body politic, to sue and
be sued, by the name of " The Trustees for the Poor of Calvert
county," and by that name may take and hold any gift, dona-
tion or present which may be given, devised or bequeathed by
any person to them for the support and maintenance of the poor
in said county; and they may purchase and hold any lands, tene-
ments and hereditaments not exceeding the yearly value of
fifteen hundred dollars.

6. They may use a common seal, and the same, if necessary,
change and alter.

7. They shall purchase from time to time the necessary bed-
ding and furniture of every description for the alms-house, and
horses, cows and other stock, and the necessary farming imple-
ments for the use, occupation and cultivation of the land thereto
attached; and they shall keep an account of all moneys by them
received and expended for such purposes, and return a true copy
thereof, with the vouchers therefor, to the county commissioners
at their annual meeting for making the county levy.