1494 MONTGOMERY COUNTY. [ART. 16

ALMSHOUSE.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 15, sec. 1.

1. The trustees of the poor in Montgomery county are a body
corporate, with power to sue and be sued, by the name of "The
trustees of the poor of Montgomery county," and by that name
may take and hold any gift, donation or present which may be
given, devised or bequeathed to them for the support and main-
tenance of the poor in said county, and may purchase and hold
any lands and tenements not exceeding the yearly value of fifteen,
hundred dollars; and may have and use a common seal, and may
change the same at pleasure.

1868. ch. so.

2. In the second week of November in every year, the county
commissioners shall appoint five persons, inhabitants of said
county, trustees of the poor of said county, who shall hold their
office for the term of one year from the date of their appointment,
and until the qualification of their successors, subject, however, to
removal at the pleasure of the county commissioners; and when-
ever a vacancy shall exist in said board of trustees from any cause,
it shall be the duty of the said commissioners to fill such vacancy
at their next meeting.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 15, sec. 4.

3. The persons elected trustees, before acting as such, shall take-
the following oath: " I, A. B., do swear that I will duly and faith-
fully discharge the duties and trusts committed to me as trustee
of the poor of Montgomery county, according to the best of my
skill and knowledge, so help me God;" such oath shall be admin-
istered by one of said trustees to the others, and then one of them,
shall administer the oath to him.

Ibid. sec. 5.

4. Any person elected a trustee, who shall wilfully refuse or
delay to qualify as such, shall forfeit and pay for every such
refusal or delay, the sum of twenty-five dollars; but no member
of the general assembly, clergyman, attorney or practising physi-
cian, shall be obliged to accept said office, or forfeit as aforesaid
for refusing to accept; and no judge, justice of the peace, or