ART. 6.] CAROLINE COUNTY. 369

Trustees of the Poor of Caroline County," and by that name
may take and hold any gift, donation or present which may be
given, devised or bequeathed by any person to them for the
support and maintenance of the poor of said county, and they
may purchase and hold any lands and tenements not exceeding
the yearly value of three thousand dollars.

7. They may use a common seal, and the same, if necessary,
may change and alter, and they shall have power to make such
laws, orders and rules for the better relieving, regulating and
setting the poor to work, and for the good government of the
alms-house in said county as they deem proper, not contrary to
law.

8. Every person who shall be appointed a trustee of the poor
who shall wilfully refuse or delay to take upon him the said
office, shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty dollars, but no
minister of the gospel, attorney, practising physician, judge of
tho Circuit Court, judge of the Orphans' Court or sheriff, shall
be compelled to serve as such trustee, nor shall any person be
compelled to serve in less than three years after he has served or
paid the forfeiture for refusal.

9. The houses known by the name of the poor house of Caro-
line county, and the land thereto belonging, aro vested in said
trustees and their successors forever as their estate and inherit-
ance, one part to be called the alms-house, and to be for the re-
ception of the poor of said county, and the other part to be called
the work house, and to be for the reception and lodging of
vagrants, beggars, vagabonds and other offenders.

10. The said trustees shall purchase from time to time the
necessary bedding and furniture of every description for the
alms-house and work house, and horses, cows and other stock,
and the necessary farming implements 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 copy thereof, with the vouchers
therefor, to the county commissioners, between the first Monday
in April and the first Monday in June annually.

11. The accounts returned by said trustees shall be examined
by the county commissioners and lodged with the clerk.

Vol. II-24