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Dec. Ses. 1817.
Passed Feb. 4.
Preamble.
Trustees ap-
pointed—oath
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CHAPTER 102.
An act for the relief of the Poor of Caroline County.
Whereas, it is represented to this general assembly, by the pe-
tition of sundry inhabitants of Caroline county, that the existing
law for the support of the poor of said county does not answer the
purpose for which it was intended; Therefore.,
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
for the time being the. several persons hereafter named be, and they are
hereby appointed trustees for the poor within the said county, and
are empowered with full and sufficient authority to discharge the,
several offices, duties and trusts, reposed in and required of them,
by virtue of this act, that is to say; Col. William Potter, Edmond
Pendleton, James Houston, Richard Hughlett, Peter Willis, Jere-
miah Rhodes and John Jump, senior; which persons, or a majority
of them, in case of the death or absence of any, are hereby requi-
red to meet at the poor-house of said county, on the first Monday
of April next, and then and there qualify for the office of trustees
for the poor of said county, which they are to do by taking the
following oath, or affirmation, (as the case may be,) "I, A. B. do
swear or affirm, that I will duly and faithfully discharge the duties
and trusts committed to me as a trustee for the poor of Caroline
county, by an act of assembly, entitled, 'An act for the relief of the
poor of Caroline county,' according to the best of my skill and
knowledge, so help me God;" which oaths or affirmations are to bo
administered by any of the persons last named, to the person first
named that shall be there present, which person being sworn as
aforesaid shall administer the oaths or affirmations aforementioned
to all the rest, and so successively the person first named that shall
be present shall always administer the oaths or affirmations to any
that may have been absent, or that shall hereafter he elected and
chosen, pursuant to the directions of this act, to supply the place
of any that shall be dead or removed out of the, county, or any who
shall refuse or neglect to qualify and act as a trustee, when elected
and chosen pursuant to the directions of this act; and the aforesaid
persons, or the majority of them, being sworn or affirmed as afore-
said, shall be constituted and qualified as trustees for the poor of
said county, and as such are hereby vested with full power and
authority as a body politic, and shall he capable in law to plead and
be impleaded, sue and be sued, defend and be defended, and answer
and be answered, by the name of The Trustees of the Poor of Ca-
roline County, in all and every cause, complaint and action, real,
personal or mixed, of whatever kind or nature it shall or may be,
in any court of record within this state; and by that name they and
any of them, and their successors, shall and are hereby enabled to
take, hold, possess and enjoy, any gift, donation or present, which
shall or may hereafter be given, devised or bequeathed, by any
person or persons whatsoever, to them or any of them, for or to-
wards the support and maintenance of the poor of the said county;
and they, or any of them, may receive by way of subscription any
sum or sums of money which shall or may he given for the better
and more speedy promoting the benefit and good by this act intend-
ed, and that they have full power and authority to purchase, take,
hold, receive, enjoy and have, to them and their successors, for
ever, any lands, tenements and hereditaments, not exceeding the
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