ART. 18.] ST. MARY'S COUNTY. 775

SCHOOLS- SEC. SCHOOLS- SEC.
Trustees to alcertain and report Examinations, when to be held... US
to commissioners number Board of examiners, how ap-
of children in districts... 108 pointed, and theirduties......... 116

to erect and furnish school Pay of school commissioners...... 117

houses........................ 108

What pupils may be admitted to SHERIFF-
schools................................ Ill Pay of, for keeping prisoners...... 118

Who maybe employed as teach- For collecting officers'fees......... 119

ors...................................... 107

Tuition fees, how ascertained. Ie- WITNESSES-
vied and collected........... 113,114 Pay of.................................... 120

ALMS-HOUSE.

SECTION 1. The county commissioners of St. Mary's county
shall, at their first meeting in May, annually, appoint five discreet
persons, inhabitants of said county, to be Trustees of the Poor
for said county, from and after the first Monday of June next
succeeding.

2. The clerk to the county commissioners shall, within five
days thereafter, deliver to the sheriff of said county a certificate
of the appointment of each of said trustees, endorsing one of the
certificates for each of them respectively, and the sheriff shall,
within ten days thereafter, deliver one of the certificates to each
of the trustees, agreeably to the endorsement thereon.

3. The said trustees, under the penalty of twenty-five dollars
each, shall accept said office, and shall meet at the alms-house in
said county, on the first Monday of June next ensuing their appoint-
ment, and qualify as trustees by taking the following oath, to wit:

" I, A. B., do swear that I will duly and faithfully discharge the
duties and trusts committed to me as trustee of the poor for St.
Mary's county, according to the best, of my skill and knowledge,
so help me God;" which oaths are to be administered by any
one of the five trustees to the others, any one of whom, being
sworn, shall administer the same to him.

4. No member of the General Assembly, clergyman, attorney
or practising physician, shall be obliged to accept or be liable to
the penalty aforesaid for refusing to accept the office of trustee
of the poor; and no judge, justice of the- peace, or sheriff, or any
one who hath not the qualification to be a member of the General