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

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

6. The trustees so appointed and qualified area body politic,
with full power and authority to sue and be sued, by the name
of "The Trustees of the Poor of Anne Arundel county;" and by
that name they may take and hold any gift, donation or present
which shall be given, devised or bequeathed to them for the sup-
port and maintenance of the poor in said county, and may pur-
chase and hold any lands, tenements and hereditaments not
exceeding the yearly value of twenty-five hundred dollars.

7. They may use a common seal, and the same at their pleasure
may change and alter.

8. They shall have power and authority to make such laws,
orders and rules for relieving, regulating and setting the poor to
work, and punishing vagrants, vagabonds and other offenders, and
the good government of the alms-house in said county, as to
them may seem proper.

9. They shall, under the penalty of fifty dollars each, make
out and render to the county commissioners at their first meeting
in the month of March in each year, a statement of their accounts
and expenditures, with the necessary vouchers for the preceding
year; which account shall be passed and settled by the said com-
missioners previous to making the appointment of trustees for
the ensuing year.

10. They, or a majority of them, shall meet together at the
alms-house in said county on the first Monday of May yearly,
and at such other times as they shall judge necessary, and ap-