AST. 8.] CECIL COUNTY. 435
ALMS-HOUSE.

SECTION 1. The county commissioners of Cecil county shall,
at their first meeting in April in each year, appoint five discreet
and proper persons inhabitants of said county to be trustees
of the poor for said county from the first Monday of May next
ensuing.

2. The clerk to the county commissioners shall, within five
days after such appointment, deliver to the sheriff of the county
a certificate of the appointment of each of the sard trustees,
endorsing one of the certificates for each of them respectively,
and the sheriff shall, within six days thereafter, deliver one of
the certificates to each of the trustees agreeably to the endorse-
ment thereon.

3. The said trustees, under the penalty of twenty-five dollars,
shall accept said office, and shall meet at the alms-house of the
county on the first Monday of May next ensuing their appoint-
ment, and qualify as trustees by taking the following oath, to
wit: "I, A. B., do swear that I will duly and faithfully discharge
the duties and trusts committed to me as a trustee of the poor
for Cecil county to the best of my skill and knowledge, so help
me God;" which oaths are to be administered by any of the five
trustees to the others, any one of whom being sworn shall admi-
nister the same to him.

4. No member of the General Assembly, clergyman, attorney
or practising physician, shall be obliged to accept, or be liable to
the penalty aforesaid for refusing to accept, the office of trustee
of the poor, and no justice of the peace or sheriff, or any one
who hath not the qualification to be a member of the General
Assembly, shall be eligible as a trustee; and no person shall be
compellable to serve in less than three years after he has served
or paid the penalty for not serving.

5. In all cases of vacancies happening by non-acceptance,
death, resignation, removal out of the county or disqualification
of any of said trustees, the vacancy shall be filled by the county
commissioners at their next meeting thereafter.

6. The trustees so appointed and qualified, and their suc-
cessors, are invested as a body politic, with full power to sue
and be sued by the name of " The Trustees of the Poor of Cecil