22 AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY. 



the said proposed and promulgated bills : and on the ninth day from their 

 so meeting, the said General Assembly, after reading over the proposed 

 bills by the Clerk of the provincial Council, and the occasions and 

 motives for them being opened by the Governor or his Deputy, shall give 

 their affirmative or negative, which to them seemeth best, in such man- 

 ner as herein after is expressed. But not less than two-thirds shall make 

 a quorum in the passing of laws, and choice of such officers as are by 

 them to be chosen. 



XV. That the laws so prepared and proposed, as aforesaid, that are 

 assented to by the General Assembly, shall be enrolled as laws of the 

 Province, with this stile: By the Governor^ ivith the assent and approba- 

 tion of the freemen in provincial Council and General Assembly. 



XVI. That, for the establishment of the government and laws of this 

 province, and to the end there may be an universal satisfaction in the laying 

 of the fundamentals thereof: the General Assembly shall, or may, for the 

 first year, consist of all the freemen of and in the said province; and 

 ever after it shall be yearly chosen, as aforesaid; which number of two 

 hundred shall be enlarged as the country shall increase in people, so as 

 it do not exceed five hundred, at any time; the appointment and propor- 

 tioning of which, as also the laying and methodizing of the choice of the 

 provincial Council and General Assembly, in future times, most equally 

 to the divisions of the hundreds and counties, which the country shall 

 hereafter be divided into, shall be in the power of the provincial Council 

 to propose, and the General Assembly to resolve. 



XVII. That the Governor and the provincial Council shall erect, from 

 time to time, standing courts of justice, in such places and number as 

 they shall judge convenient for the good government of the said province. 

 And that the provincial Council shall, on the thirteenth day of the first 

 mouth, yearly, elect and present to the Governor, or his Deputy, a double 

 number of persons, to serve for Judges, Treasurers, Masters of Rolls, 

 within the said province, for the year next ensuing ; and the freemen of 

 the said province, in the county courts, when they shall be erected, and 

 till then, in the General Assembly, shall, on the three and twentieth day 

 of the second month, yearly, elect and present to the Governor, or his 

 Deputy, a double number of persons, to serve for Sherifts, Justices of the 

 Peace, and Coroners, for the year next ensuing; out of which respective 

 elections and presentments, the Governor or his Deputy shall nominate 

 and commissionate the proper number for each office, the third day after 

 the said presentments, or else the first named in such presentment, for 

 each office, shall stand and serve for that office the year ensuing. 



XVIII. But forasmuch as the present condition of the province requires 

 some immediate settlement, and admits not of so quick a revolution of 

 officers; and to the end the said Province may, with all convenient speed. 



