ART. 8.] ALMSHOUSE. 793

make contracts to expend a sum greater than the amount of money
so levied by the commissioners.

1884, ch. 13. 1888,' ch. 308.

19. All the funds of the said almshouse and insane asylum, and
all sums of money levied by the county commissioners for the
relief and support of the poor and insane, and all money arising
from the sale of any of the property under the control of said
trustees, or from any other source whatever, shall be deposited
with the treasurer of Cecil county, and shall be paid out by the
said treasurer upon the warrant of the said trustees, as provided
by section 17 hereof.

Ibid.

20. The said trustees may pay the secretary selected under
section 14 hereof, a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars per
annum as a salary, and so pro rata during his continuance in
office.

Ibid

21. The said trustees shall be entitled to two dollars per day
for each day they shall attend to the discharge of their duties as
such.

Ibid.

22. No clergyman, attorney at law, or practising physician
shall be obliged to accept the office of trustee of the poor and
insane; and no justice of the peace or sheriff, or any one who
has not the qualification to be a member of the general assembly
shall be eligible as a trustee.

Ibid.

23. The said trustees shall annually, on or before the first day
of February in each year, appoint an overseer of the almshouse
and insane asylum, such appointment to take effect on the
twenty-fifth day of March next ensuing, and shall, within ten
days after such appointment, inform the overseer thereof; the
said trustees may appoint such nurses, attendants and assistants
to the overseer, and employ such laborers and upon such terms as
they may deem proper.

Ibid.

24. They may remove such overseer at their discretion, and
shall give him ten days' notice of his discharge.