FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County: "I, A. B., do
swear that I will duly and faithfully discharge the duties and
trusts committed to me as trustee for the poor of Anne
Arundel County, according to the best of my skill and judg-
ment; and that I will not, directly nor indirectly, furnish sup-
plies of any description for the use of said almshonse, during
the term of my office, so help me God."

637

4. All vacancies happening by non-acceptance, death, resig-
nation or removal out of the county or disqualification of any
of said trustees, shall be filled by the County Commissioners at
their next meeting thereafter.

Vacancies,

5. No member of the General Assembly, clergyman, attor-
ney or practicing physician, shall be obliged to accept said
office, or be liable to the penalty aforesaid for refusing to
accept; and no judge or sheriff, or any person who has not the
qualification to be a member of the General Assembly, shall
be eligible thereto; and no person shall be compellable to serve
in less than three years after he has served or paid the penalty
for refusing to serve.

Exempt from
service.

6. The trustees so appointed and qualified are a body politic,
with full power and authority to sue and be sued, by the name
of " The Trustees of the Poor of Anne Arundel County," and
by that name they may take and hold any gift, donation or
present which shall be given, devised or bequeathed to them
for the support and maintenance of the poor in said county;
and may purchase and hold any land, tenements and heredita-
ments not exceeding the yearly value of twenty-five hundred

dollars.

A body
politic.

7. They may use a common seal, and may change the same
at their pleasure.

Seal.

8. They shall have power and authority to make such by-laws,
order and rules for relieving, regulating and employing the
poor, and for the good government of the almshouse in said
county, as may seem proper to them.

By-laws.

9. They shall, under the penalty of fifty dollars each, make
out and render to the County Commissioners, at the first meet-
ing of said commissioners in the month of January in each
year, and every three months thereafter, quarterly reports,
embracing a statement of their accounts and expenditures,
with necessary vouchers for the preceding quarter; and the

Quarterly
reports.