ART. 8.] ALMSHOUSE. 791

1884, ch. 13. 1888, ch. 898.

11. The trustees so appointed and qualified, and their succes-
sors, are invested as a body politic with full power to sue and be
sued by the name of " The Trustees of the Poor and Insane of
Cecil county," and by that name they and their successors shall
take, hold, possess and enjoy all the property, real, personal and
mixed, held by the trustees of the poor for Cecil county, or by
the commissioners of Cecil county for the use and benefit of the
poor and insane of said county, and shall take, hold and possess
any gift, donation or present which shall be given, devised or
bequeathed by any person to them for or towards the support
and maintenance of the poor and insane of said county; and they
may purchase and hold and enjoy, to them and their successors,
forever, any lands, tenements or hereditaments for the use and
benefit of the poor and insane of Cecil county.

Ibid.

12. The said trustees may use one common seal, and the same,
if necessary, may change and alter.

Ibid.

13. The said trustees shall meet at the almshouse of said county
four times in each year, in the first week in January, April, July
and October, and make by a majority of votes of such as may be
present (provided a quorum, as hereinbefore provided, is present
at such meeting), such rules and by-laws, or change or amend
the same, as they may think necessary for the direction, govern-
ment and support of the almshouse and insane asylum, and for
the maintenance and employment of all such persons as shall be
taken under their care, and of all vagrants, beggars, vagabonds
and other offenders that shall be committed thereto.

Ibid.

14. The said trustees, at their meeting on the first Monday of
January, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety, shall select
one of their members to act as president of said trustees, one to
act as vice-president and one to act as secretary of said trustees;
and the said trustees may, by rules and by-laws, define the duties
of said officers, regulate their tenure, and provide for the appoint-
ment of their successors.