ART. 22.] ALMSHOUSE. 1921

shall have perpetual succession, and shall be capable to purchase,
take and hold any lands, tenements or hereditaments not exceed-
ing the yearly value of sixteen hundred dollars, and to rent or
lease such lands, tenements or hereditaments in such manner as
they may judge most conducive to the interests of said poor; and"
to take and receive any sum of money, and any kind of goods
and chattels which may be given, sold or bequeathed to them by
any person, and apply the same for the use of the poor.

P. L L., (1860,) art. 21, sec. 7.

7. They shall be capable to sue and be sued by their corporate
name, and may have and use a common seal, and may change the
same at their pleasure.

Ibid. sec. 8.

8. They may purchase beds, bedding, working tools, kitchen
utensils, cows, horses and other necessaries for said almshouse.

1868, ch. 31.

9. Annually, at their first meeting, they shall appoint a fit per-
son to be overseer of the almshouse, and such other proper offi-
cers and servants as may appear to them necessary for conduct-
ing the business of said almshouse; the overseer so appointed, and
all other appointees, shall enter upon the discharge of their duties
on the first day of April in each year thereafter.

P. L L., (1860,) art 21, sec. 10.

10. They shall meet at the almshouse four times in the year,
in the first week in May, August, October and December, or
oftener if necessary, and make and ordain, by a majority of
votes of such as may be present, all such rules and by-laws as
they shall think necessary for the support and government of said
almshouse.

1868, ch. 31.

11. Under the penalty of fifty dollars, they shall make out
and render to the county commissioners, at their first meeting
in May in every year, a statement of their accounts and expendi-
tures, with the necessary vouchers, for the preceding year, which
accounts shall be settled and passed by the commissioners.
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