, 1346 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 661

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 1, 3, 6, 9, 10, 11, 14, 17, 21 and 27 of Arti-
cle. 2 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Anne Arundel
County, " sub-title "Almshouse" as amended by Chapter 166,
Acts of 1892 and by Chapter 445, Acts of 1894, which sub-title
was changed by Chapter 32, Acts of 1906 to "Anne Arundel
County Home"; be repealed and) re-enacted with amendments,
and that an additional section to be known as Section 27-A
be enacted, so that said sub-title of said Article shall read as
follows:

SEC. 1. The County Commissioners shall on or before the
first day of July, 1916, appoint three men and three women
Trustees of the Poor for Anne Arundel County, their terms to
begin July, 1916, and their terms to be determined by lot; one
man and one woman of the above named Trustees shall be thus
selected to serve for a period of two (2) years, one man and
one woman for a period of f our (4) years, and one man and
one woman for a period of six (6) years, from the said first
day of July, 1916. And every two years from, said day, the
County Commissioners of Anne Arundel County shall appoint
one man and one woman resident in said county within fifteen
(15) miles of the County Home to fill the places of the two
Trustees whose terms shall then expire, and in appointing to
any vacancy howsoever caused, the person chosen by the County
Commissioners shall be of the same sex as the Trustee whom
the appointee is to succeed.

SEC. 3. The said trustees shall, in accepting such appoint-
ment, take the following oath before the Clerk of the Circuit
Court for Anne Arundel County: "I,......................

in the presence of Almighty God, do solemnly promise and
declare that I will duly and faithfully discharge the duties and
trusts committed to me as Trustee of the Poor of Anne Arundel
County, according to the best of my skill and judgment, and
that I will not directly or indirectly, furnish supplies of any
description for the use of said Almshouse or County Home. ''

SEC. 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 Anne Arundel County Home"
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 they may purchase and hold, sell or convey, by and with
the consent of the County Commissioners of Anne Arundel