ART. 11.] FREDERICK COUNTY. 545

'ALMS-HOUSE.

SECTION 1. The county commissioners for Frederick county, at
their first meeting in January in each year, shall appoint five
discreet persons, inhabitants of said county, to be Trustees of the
Poor for Frederick county, from and after the first Monday of
February then next ensuing.

2. The clerk of said county commissioners within ten days
after such appointment, shall make out and deliver to the sheriff
of said county a certificate of the appointment of each of said
trustees, endorsing one of said certificates for each of them
respectively, and the sheriff shall within six days thereafter
deliver one of said certificates to each of said trustees.

3. The trustees when notified of their appointment, shall each,
under the penalty of twenty-five dollars, accept the said office,
and they shall meet on the first Monday of February thereafter,
(unless prevented by sickness or other unavoidable accident,
and in such case as soon thereafter as the disability is removed,)
at the alms-house of said county, and take the following oath:

"I, A. B., do swear, that I will duly and faithfully discharge the
duties and trusts committed to me as trustee for the poor of
Frederick county, according to the best of my skill and know-
ledge, so help me God."

4. The said oath shall be administered by any one of the trus-
tees to the others, any one of whom being eworn shall adminis-
ter the same to him.

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

6. No member of the General Assembly, clergyman, attorney
or practising physician, shall be obliged to accept of the office of
trustee of the poor, or shall be liable to the penalty for refusing;

and no justice of the peace, sheriff, or any one who has not the
qualification to be a member of the General Assembly, shall be
eligible as such, and no person shall be compellable to serve as
such trustee in less than three years after serving or paying the
penalty for refusing.

Vol. IL-35