1330 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 790]

such refusal or delay the sum of twenty-five dollars; but no
member of the General Assembly, clergyman, attorney or prac-
ticing 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 has not the qualification to
be a member of the House of Delegates, shall be eligible to said
office.

P.L. L. (1888), sec. 5.

5. The trustees shall meet together between the first and
tenth days of November, yearly, and at such other times as
they shall judge necessary, at the almshouse in said county, to
appoint a fit person to be overseer of the almshouse, and such
other proper officers and servants as to them shall appear nec-
essary; and they shall pay such overseer a sum not exceeding
the sum of two hundred dollars per annum as a salary, and so,
pro rata, during his continuance in office.

Ibid. sec. 6.

6. Every overseer shall enter into bond, with good and suf-
ficient securities, in the penalty of five hundred dollars, pay-
able to the said Trustees of the Poor, conditioned for the faith-
ful performance of the duties of his office.

Ibid. sec. 7.

7. The trustees may remove such overseer and all other offi-
cers appointed by them.

Ibid. sec. 8.

8. Whenever a vacancy shall exist in the office of overseer
of the poor, either by the expiration of the time for which
he was appointed or by removal, the overseer whose office
shall so become vacant shall, upon the order of said trustees,
deliver up to the trustees the possession and custody of the
almshouse, and all of the property and effects of every descrip-
tion thereto belonging; and upon his neglect or refusal to do
so, it shall be the duty of the sheriff of the county, upon
the request of said trustees, to remove him therefrom.

P. L. L. (1888), sec. 9.

9. Whenever the office of clerk of said trustees shall become
vacant, either by lapse of time or removal, it shall be the duty
of the clerk whose office has so become vacant, to deliver up
to the said trustees all books, papers, moneys or other prop-
erty in his custody as said clerk; and if he shall neglect or
refuse so to do upon the demand of the said trustees, he
shall forfeit the sum of ten dollars for each and every day
of said neglect or refusal, to be recovered by indictment in
the Circuit Court for said county, and the amount of said
forfeiture, when recovered, shall be for the use of said trus-
tees.

Ibid. sec. 10.

10. The trustees shall purchase and buy for the use and
employment of the poor of said county, and the vagrants, beg-