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trial, verdict shall be found for the defendant, or if the plaintiff
shall be non-suited or discontinue, the defendant shall recover
treble costs, and if the plaintiff shall be unable to pay them, they
shall be paid by the attorney who brought or prosecuted the suit,
unless the plaintiff shall give security for the costs, to be ap-
proved by the court.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 4, sec. 56.

61. The mayor and city council shall, at their annual session,
appoint one sensible and discreet inhabitant residing in each
ward of the city, to be a manager of the poor in the ward in
which he shall reside, who shall take an oath before some justice
of the peace for said city, that he will well and faithfully per-
form the duties of a manager of the poor in his ward, according
to the best of his knowledge and judgment.

Ibid. sec. 67.

62. Every such manager shall hold his office during the term
of one year, and until his successor is duly appointed and quali-
fied, and shall perform the duties of his office gratuitously.

Ibid. sec. 68.

63. Every manager shall have power to direct in writing any
indigent, sick or disabled person, infant or idiot, of his ward, and
who may be entitled to public relief by law, to go or be taken to
the said almshouse.

Ibid. eec. 69.

64. The trustees of the poor shall cause the person sent or
taken to the almshouse by order of the said managers, to be re-
ceived, maintained and employed therein so long as in the opinion
of the said trustees such person may be entitled to relief and
require it.

ARBITRATION—COURT OF.
1878, ch. 383.

65. The board of trade shall have power and authority to
create and organize within itself a court of arbitration for the
adjudication and settlement, according to the principles of law,
equity and commercial usage, or of either, applicable thereto, of