ART. 6.] ALMSHOUSE. G35

court, judge of the orphan's court, or sheriff, shall be compelled
to serve as such trustee; nor shall any jpeson be compelled to
serve in less than three years after he has served, or paid the
forfeiture for refusing to serve.

P. L. L, (1860,) art. 8, sec. 9.

9. The houses known by the name of the poor-house of
Caroline county, and the land thereto belonging, are vested in
said trustees and their successors forever, as their estate and
inheritance, one part to be called the almshouse, and to be for the
reception of the poor of said county, and the other part to be
called the work-house, and to be for the reception and lodging of
vagrants, beggars, vagabonds and other offenders.

Ibid sec. 10.

10. The said trustees shall purchase, from time to time, the
necessary bedding and furniture of every description for the
almshouse and work-house, and horses, cows and other stock, and
the necessary fanning implements for the use, occupation and
cultivation of the land thereto attached; and they shall keep an
account of all moneys received and expended by them for such
purposes, and return a copy thereof, with the vouchers therefor,
to the county commissioners, between the first Monday in April
and the first Monday in June, annually.

Ibid. sec. 11.

11. The accounts returned by said trustees shall be examined!
by the county commissioners and lodged with the clerk.

Ibid. sec. 12.

12. The county commissioners shall annually levy on the
assessable property of the county, at the time of making the
county levy, such sum as the said trustees, or a majority of them,
shall deem necessary for the support of the almshouse and
work-house, together with six per cent, for collecting the same;.
and the money when collected shall.be paid to the trustees or to
their order, or to the order of a majority of them, under their
common seal, to be applied by them to the maintenance of the
inmates of said almshouse and work-house; to paying a doctor