692 MONTGOMERY COUNTY. [ART. 15.

5. Any person who shall be elected a trustee, who shall wilfully
refuse or delay to qualify as such, shall forfeit and pay for every
such refusal or delay, the sum of twenty-five dollars; but no
member- of the General Assembly, clergyman, attorney or
practising physician, shall be obliged to accept said office, or
forfeit as aforesaid for refusing to accept, and no judge, justice
of the peace, or sheriff, or any one who hath not the qualifica-
tion to be a member of the House of Delegates, shall be eligible
to said office.

6. They shall me&t together between the first and tenth days
of November, yearly, and at such other times as they shall judge
necessary, at the alms-house, in said county, to appoint a fit per-
son to be overseer of the alms-house, and such other proper
officers and servants, as to them shall appear necessary, and
they shall pay such overseer a sum not exceeding the sum. of
two hundred dollars per annum, as a salary, and so, pro rata,
during his continuance in office.

7. Every overseer shall enter into bond, with good and suffi-
cient securities, irr the penalty of five hundred dollars, payable
to the said trustees of the poor, conditioned for the faithful per-
formance of the duties of his office.

8. The trustees, or a majority of them, may remove such over-
seer, and all other officers by them appointed.

9. They shall purchase and buy for the use and employment
of the poor of said county, and the vagrants, beggars, vagabonds
and offenders who may be committed to said alms-house, sufficient
beds, bedding, working tools, kitchen utensils, cows, horses, and
other necessaries; and they shall keep an account of all moneys
expended by them, and return a true copy thereof, with the
vouchers for the same, to the county commissioners, yearly, to
be by them inspected and examined.

10. They shall meet at the alms-house four times in the year,
in the first week in January, May, August and November, or
oftener if necessary, to make, by a majority of votes of such as
may be present, such rules and by-laws as they may think con-
venient and necessary for the direction, government and support
of the alms-house, and for the cleanliness, maintenance and em-
ployment of all poor persons therein, and of all vagrants, beg-
gars, vagabonds and offenders that may be committed thereto.