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be well ordered and settled, I, William Penn, do therefore think fit to 

 nominate and appoint such persons for Judges, Treasurers, Masters of the 

 Eolls, Sherififs, Justices of the Peace, and Coroners, as are most fitly qual- 

 ified for those employments ; to whom I shall make and grant commis- 

 sions for the said offices, respectively, to hold to them, to whom the same 

 shall be granted, for so long time as every such person shall well behave 

 himself in the office, or place, to him respectively granted, and no longer. 

 And upon the decease or displacing of any of the said officers, the suc- 

 ceeding officer, or officers, shall be chosen, as aforesaid. 



XIX. That the General Assembly shall continue so long as may be 

 needful to impeach criminals, fit to be there impeached, to pass bills into 

 laws, that they shall think fit to pass into laws, and till such time as the 

 Governor and provincial Council shall delare that they have nothing 

 further to propose unto them, for their assent and approbation : and that 

 declaration shall be a dismiss to the General Assembly for that time ; 

 which General Assembly shall be, notwithstanding, capable of assembling 

 together upon the summons of the provincial Council, at any time during 

 that year, if the said provincial Council shall see occasion for their so 

 assembling. 



XX. That all the elections of members, or representatives of the peo- 

 ple, to serve in provincial Council and General Assembly, and all ques- 

 tions to be determined by both, or either of them, that relate to passing 

 of bills into laws, to the choice of officers, to impeachments by the Gene- 

 ral Assembly, and judgment of criminals upon such impeachments by 

 the provincial Council, and to all other cases by them respectively judged 

 of importance, shall be resolved and determined by the ballot; and un- 

 less on sudden and indispeusible occasions, no business in provincial 

 Council, or its respective committees, shall be finally determined the 

 same day that it is moved. 



XXI. That at all times when, and so often as it shall hap])en that the 

 Governor shall or may be an infant, under the age of one and twenty 

 years, and no guardians or commissioners are appointed in writing, by 

 the father of the said infant, or that such guardians or commissioners, 

 shall be deceased ; that during such minority, the provincial Council 

 shall, from time to time, as they shall see meet, constitute and appoint 

 guardians or commissioners, not exceeding three ; one of which three 

 shall preside as deputy and chief guardian, during such minority, and 

 shall have and execute, with the consent of the other two, all the power 

 of a Governor, in all the public affairs and concerns of the said province. 



XXII. That, as often as any day of the month, mentioned in any arti- 

 cle of this charter, shall fall upon the first day of the week, commonly 

 called the Lord's Day, the business appointed for that day shall be de- 

 ferred till the next day, unless in case of emergency. 



