1770 SOMERSET COUNTY. [ART. 20.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 19, nee. 2.

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 sheriff shall, within six daya thereafter, deliver one
thereof to each of the said trustees.

Ibid. sec. 8.

3. The said trustees, under the penalty of twenty-five dollars
each, shall accept said office, and shall meet at the almshouse in
said county on the first Tuesday of May next ensuing such ap-
pointment, unless prevented by sickness or other unavoidable ac-
cident, and in such case as soon thereafter as the disability shall
be removed, and severally qualify as trustees, by taking the fol-
lowing oath: "I, A. R, 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 knowledge, so help me God;" which oath is to be adminis-
tered by any one of the said trustees to the others, any one of
whom, being sworn, may administer the same to him.

Ibid. sec. 4.

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 has not the quali-
fication 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
to serve.

Ibid. sec. 5.

5. Vacancies happening by non-acceptance, death, removal out
of the county, or disqualification of any of the trustees, shall be
filled by the county commissioners at their next meeting there-
after.

Ibid. sec. 6.

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