ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 5

	Tuesday of January, eighteen hundred and ninety, and until
	their successors are appointed and qualified, and should any per-
	son appointed by the county commissioners fail or neglect to
	qualify for thirty days, the county commissioners shall fill the
	vacancy, conforming, however, to the conditions for the first
	selection of trustees. On the second Tuesday of January in every
	second year, accounting from the year eighteen hundred and
	ninety-two, the county commissioners of Cecil county shall ap-
	point one trustee of the poor and insane of Cecil county to serve
	for six years from the date of his appointment, and until his suc-
	cessor shall have been appointed and qualified, and all appoint-
	ments shall be subject to the restriction that not more than two
	of said trustees shall be adherents of the same political party ;
	the said trustees, or any of them, may be removed at any time by
	the county commissioners for any violation of law or neglect of
	duty; provided, that such cause for removal shall in every case
	be first communicated in writing to the trustee so removed by
	the county commissioners.
	SEC. 8. Vacancies happening by non-acceptance, death, resig-
	nation, removal out of the county, or disqualification of any of	Vacancies.
	the said trustees from any cause, shall be filled by the county
	commissioners.
	SEC. 9. The said trustees shall meet at the almshouse of the
	county within ten days after their appointment, and qualify as
	trustees by taking the following oath : I, A. B., do swear that I
	will duly and faithfully discharge the duties and trusts com-	Oath.
	mitted to me as a trustee of the poor and insane of Cecil county,
	to the best of my skill and knowledge, so help me God; which
	oath may be administered by any justice of the peace of Cecil
	county, or by any one of the three trustees to the others, any one
	of whom being sworn may administer the same to him.
	SEC. 10. No trustee shall be either directly or indirectly in-
	terested in any contract made by the said trustees, and no trustee
	shall directly or indirectly furnish supplies of any description
	for the use of the almshouse or insane asylum, and if any trustee
	should do so, upon sufficient evidence of the fact being offered to	Suppress.
	the county commissioners, it shall be their duty forthwith to
	remove said trustee from office, and he shall forfeit for the use
	and benefit of the almshouse and insane asylum whatever sup-
	plies he may have furnished.
	SEC. 13. A majority of said trustees shall constitute a quorum
	for the transaction of business; the said trustees shall meet at
	the almshouse on the last Saturday of each mouth, or oftener if	Quorum.
	necessary; they shall make, by a majority of votes of such as
	may be present, such rules and regulations from time to time as
	they may think necessary for the direction, government and sup-