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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

tional powers and privileges which may at any
time be conferred upon the Corporation, either by
amendment of this Act or by any other Act here-
after to be passed.

In force.

Sec. 10. And be U enacted, That the General
Assembly reserve to itself the right to alter or
amend this Charter at pleasure, and that this Act
shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 12, 1870.

CHAPTER 87.

AN ACT authorizing the County Commissioners
of Wicomico County to appoint three Trustees
for the Alms House of said County.

Trustees.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the County Commissioners of
Wicomico County, at their first meeting in the
month of April in each year, shall appoint three
discreet persons, inhabitants of said County, to he
Trustees of the Poor of said County.

Certificate.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the Clerk to the
County Commissioners shall, within five days after
such appointment, deliver to the Sheriff of the
County a certificate of the appointment of each of
the said Trustees, endorsing one of them for each,
and the Sheriff shall, within six days thereafter,
deliver one of the certificates to each of the Trus-
tees agreeably to the endorsement thereof.

Penalty
for non-accep-
tance.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the said Trus-
tees, under the penalty of twenty-five dollars each,
shall accept such office, and shall meet at the Alms
House in said County, on the first Tuesday of May
then next ensuing, (except prevented by sickness or
other unavoidable accident, and in such case as
soon thereafter as the disability shall be removed,)
and qualify by taking the following oath ; " I, A

Oath.

B, do swear that I will duly and faithfully dis-
charge the duties and trusts committed to me, as a
Trustee for the Poor of Wicomico County, to the
best of my skill and knowledge, so help me God,"