502 DORCHESTER COUNTY. [ART. 10.

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Meetings of commiseionerB......... 219 Power to assess damages there-
Clerk of, his appointment and for....................................... 225

pay.................................... 220 Bight of appeal........................ 226

Power to pass ordinances... ....... 221 To keep streets and roads in

Ordinances to be recorded and repair................................. 227

published............................. 220 Bailiff to have power of super-
power to levy tax..................... 222 visor of roads........................ 227

Collector may distrain for.......... 222 Power to tax dogs..................... 228

Collector, his appointment, bond Fines, how recovered................. 229

and pay........................ 222, 223

Bailiff, his appointment and duty 224 WITNESSES-
Power to widen and straighten Pay of................................... 230

streets................................. 225 Mileage, how ascertained........... 231

ALMB-HOUBE.

SECTION 1. The county commissioners of Dorchester county
shall, at their first meeting in May in each year, appoint seven
discreet persons, inhabitants of said county, to be trustees of
the poor of said county from the first Monday of June then 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 said trustees,
endorsing one of them for each; and the sheriff shall, within six
days, deliver one of the certificates to each of the trustees,
agreeably to the endorsement thereon.

3. The said trustees, under the penalty of twenty-five dollars
each, shall accept said office, and shall meet at the alms-house of
the county on the second Monday of June next ensuing their
appointment, (except prevented by sickness or other unavoidable
accident, and in such case as soon thereafter as the disability
shall be removed,) and qualify by taking the following oath: "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
Dorchester county, to the best of my skill and knowledge, so
help me God," which oath is to be administered by any one of
the seven trustees to the others, any one of whom being sworn
shall administer the same to him.

4. No member of the General Assembly, clergyman, attorney
or practising physician, shall be obliged to accept, or be liable