ART. 19.] SOMERSET COUNTY. 799

2. The clerk of the county commissioners shall, within five
days after such appointment, make out and deliver to the sheriff
of said county a certificate of the appointment of each of the said
trustees, endorsing one of the said certificates for each of them,
and the said sheriff shall, within six days thereafter, deliver one
thereof to each of the said trustees.

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 Tuesday of May next ensuing such
appointment, except prevented by sickness or other unavoidable
accident, and in such case as soon thereafter as the disability
shall be removed, and qualify as trustees, by taking 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 of the poor
for Somerset county, according to the best of my skill and know-
ledge, so help me God;" which oath is to be administered by any
one of the said trustees to the others, any one of whom, being
sworn, may 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 said office; and no
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 penalty for
refusing.

5. In all cases of vacancies happening by non-acceptance,
death, removal out of the county, or disqualification of any of
the trustees, the vacancy shall be filled by the county commis-
sioners at their next meeting thereafter.

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6. The trustees so elected and qualified are a body politic,
with power to sue and be sued, by the name of " The Trustees
of the Poor for Somerset county," and by that name may take
and hold any gift, donation or present which may be given, de-
vised or bequeathed by any person to them, for the support and
maintenance of ths poor in said county, and may purchase and
hold any lands not exceeding the yearly value of fifteen hundred
dollars.