ART. 16.] PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY. 716

justice of the peace, or sheriff, or any one who hath not the
qualification to be a member of the House of Delegates, 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 not serving.

5. The trustees so appointed and qualified are a body politic,
with power to sue and be sued, by the name of" The Trustees
of the Poor for Prince George's county," and by that name may
.take and hold any gift, donation or present which may 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 or tenements not exceeding the yearly value
of twenty-five hundred dollars.

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

7. The county commissioners shall fill all vacancies that may
occur in the office of trustees, and shall annually, at the time of
appointing trustees, designate two of the number as an executive
committee; and it shall be the duty of the said committee, or if
both cannot attend, one of them, to superintend in person all the
purchases, contracts and arrangements of the alms-house, under
the direction of said trustees.

8. The members of the said executive committee shall be
entitled to two dollars a day for every day they shall attend to
their said duties, not exceeding two days in one month, and no
trustee, except the said executive committee, shall receive pay
for his services.

9. They shall meet on the said first Monday of June and on
the third Monday of April, annually, and as much oftener as they
may deem necessary, and make, by a majority of votes of such
as may be present, such rules and by-laws, for the government
and support of said alms-house, and the management of the
inmates thereof, as they may think proper; all meetings of said
trustees shall be held at the alms-house, except such as may be
necessary for the settlement of their accounts with the county
commissioners.

10. They shall appoint annually, at such time as they think
proper, and may remove, at pleasure, an overseer of said alms-