748 QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY. [ART. 17.

county commissioners of the county shall elect one of the citizens
of said county in his place.

5*. Any free white male citizen of the county over twenty-one
years of age shall be qualified to act as trustee for the alms-
house.

6. The person or persons so elected shall, before acting as such
trustees, take before some other of the trustees the following
oath : " I, A. B., do swear that I will duly and faithfully discharge
the duties and trusts committed to me as a trustee for the poor
of Queen Anne's county, according to the best of my skill and
knowledge, so help me God."

7.. Any person elected as trustee who shall wilfully refuse or
delay to take upon himself said office and qualify as aforesaid,.
shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty-five dollars; but no
member of the General Assembly, clergyman, attorney, or prac-
tising..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 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 forfeiture for refusing.

8. The said trustees, or a majority of them, shall meet together
between the first and tenth day of November, yearly, at the alms-
house in said county, and appoint a fit person to be overseer of
the alms-house, and such other proper officers and servants as
they may deem necessary, and they shall pay said overseer a
sum not exceeding two hundred dollars per annum, and so pro
rata during his continuance in office, as a salary.

9. They shall require the said overseer to enter into bond,
with good and sufficient securities payable to the said trustees,
in the penalty of five hundred dollars, for the faithful perform-
ance of his duties.

10. They, or a majority of them, at their pleasure, may re-
move said overseer and all other officers by them appointed, and
appoint others in their places.

11. They shall purchase and provide all necessary beds, bed
ding, household and kitchen furniture, stock and farming uten