714 PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY. [ART. 16.

SHERIFF- BEC. SWINE- ixc.
Pay for keeping runaway slaves.. 172 Person sued for may plead gene-
for attending Orphans'Court 173 rally.................................. 178

for delivering certificates to Penalty for keeping in pens in
trustees of poor............... 174; Nottingham, and bow reco-

vwd.................................. 179

SWINE-

Running at large in Upper Marl- TRESPASS-
borough may be impounded Penalty for, by non-residenta,
and sold.............................. 175 and how enforced............ 180,181

Owner may redeem, and how...... 176

In Queen Anne, may be im- WBI8HTS AND MEASURES-
pounded or killed.................. 177 Pay of keeper of standards......... 182

ALMS-HOUSE.

SECTION 1. The county commissioners of Prince George's
county shall, at their first meeting in the month of May, in
each year, appoint seven discreet persons, inhabitants of said
county, to be trustees of the poor in said county.

2. The clerk of 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 thereafter, deliver one of the certificates to each of them,
agreeably to the endorsement thereon.

3. The said trustees shall, under the penalty of twenty-five
dollars each, accept said office, and shall meet at the alms-house
in said county on the first Monday of June thereafter, (except
prevented by sickness or other unavoidable accident; and, in
such case, as soon thereafter as the disability is removed,) and
qualify, by taking the following oath: " I, A. B., do swear that
I will duly and faithfully discharge the duties and trusts com-
mitted to me as a trustee of the poor for Prince George's
county, according 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, or prac-
tising physician, shall be obliged to accept of said office, or be
liable to the penalty aforesaid for refusing to accept; and no