1396 HOWARD COUNTY. [ART. 14

P. L. L, (1860,) art. 13, sec. 1.

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

Ibid.

3. The said trustees, under the penalty of twenty-five dollars,
shall accept said office, and shall meet at the almshouse in said
county on the second Monday of April next ensuing, (unless,
prevented by sickness or other unavoidable accident, and in such
case as soon thereafter as the disability shall be removed,) and
qualify by taking the following oath: "I, A. B., do swear that
I will duly and faithfully discharge the duties and trusts com-
-mitted to me as trustee of the poor of Howard county, accord-
ing to the best of my skill and knowledge, BO help me God,"
which oath shall be administered by any one of said trustees,
to the others, any one of whom being sworn may administer the
same to him.

Ibid.

4. All vacancies happening by non-acceptance, death, resigna-
tion, or removal out of the county, or disqualification of any of
said trustees, shall be filled by the county commissioners at their
next meeting thereafter.

Ibid.

5. No member of the general assembly, clergyman, attorney
or practising physician shall be obliged to accept said office, or
be liable to the penalty aforesaid for refusing to accept; and no
judge, justice of the peace or sheriff, or any- person who has not
the qualification to bo 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 to serve.

Ibid.

6. The trustees so appointed and qualified are a body politic,
with full power and authority to sue and be sued, by the name