ART. 10.] DORCHESTER COUNTY. 503

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 so person
shall be compellable to serve in less than three years after he
has served, or paid the penalty for not serving.

5. All vacancies happening by non-acceptance, death, resigna-
tion, removal out of the county, or disqualification of any of said
trustees, shall be filled by the county commissioners at their next
meeting thereafter.

6. The trustees so appointed and qualified, and their successors,
are a body politic, with power to sue and be sued, by the name
of " The Trustees of the Poor of Dorchester County," and by
that name they and their successors may take and hold any gift,
donation or present which shall be given, devised or bequeathed
by any person to them, for the support and maintenance of the
poor in said county, and may purchase and hold any lands not
exceeding tho yearly value of fifteen hundred dollars.

7. They may use one common seal.

8. They may make, alter, amend or repeal such by-laws as may
be necessary for the relief, regulation and labor of the poor, and
for the good government of the alms-house, as to them from time
to time shall appear necessary.

9. They shall meet at the alms-house on the second Thursday
in January, April, June and October, and as much oftoner as
they may deem proper for the interests of the alms-house.

10. They shall annually, between the first and the tenth day of
November, appoint an overseer of the alms-house, and other
proper officers and servants for carrying on the business of said
corporation, and may remove the same in their discretion, and
appoint others in their stead.

11. They shall require the overseer to enter into bond with
good and sufficient securities in the penalty of five hundred
dollars, payable to them, conditioned for the faithful performance
of the duties of his office.