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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., (1860,) art. 15, sec. 6.

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 necessary; and they
shall pay such overseer a sum not exceeding the sum of two hun-
dred dollars per annum as a salary, and so, pro rata, during his.
continuance in office.

Ibid. sec. 7.

6. Every overseer shall enter into bond, with good and suffi-
cient securities, in the penalty of five hundred dollars, payable to
the said trustees of the poor, conditioned for the faithful per-
formance of the duties of his office.

Ibid. sec. 8.

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

1862, ch. 80.

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 be-
come vacant shall, upon the order of said trustees, deliver up to
the trustees the possession and custody of the almshouse, and all
the property and effects of every description 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.

Ibid.

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, monies or other property in
his custody as said clerk; and if he shall neglect or refuse BO to