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and if any of them see meet, with a committee of the provincial Council, 

 which shall be, at that time, purposely appointed, to receive from any of 

 them proposals for the alterations, or amendments, of any of the said 

 proposed and promulgated bills; and on the ninth day from their so 

 meeting, the said Assembly, after their 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, upon the ques- 

 tion by him put, give their affirmative or negative, which to them seem- 

 eth best, in such manner as is hereafter expressed : but not less than 

 two-thirds shall make a quorum in the passing of all bills into laws, and 

 choice of such officers as are by them to be chosen. 



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

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

 and territories thereof, with this stile: By the Oovernor^ icith the assent 

 and approhation of the freemen in pirovincial Council and Assembly met, 

 and from henceforth the meetings, sessions, acts, and proceedings of the 

 Governor, provincial Council and Assembly, shall be stiled and called, 

 The meeting, sessions and 'proceedings of the General xissemhJy of tlie i)rovince 

 of Pennsylvania, and the territories thereunto belonging. 



XV. And that the representatives of the people in provincial Council 

 and Assembly, may, in after ages, bear some proportion with the increase 

 and multiplying of the people, the number of such representatives of 

 the people may be, from time to time, increased and enlarged, so as 

 at no time, the number exceed seventy-two for the provincial Council, 

 and two hundred for the Assembly; the appointment and proportion 

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

 such representatives in future time, most equally to the division of the 

 country, or number of the inhabitants, is left to the Governor and pro- 

 vincial Council to propose, and the Assembly to resolve, so that the 

 order of proportion be strictly observed, both in the choice of the Coun- 

 cil and the respective committees thereof, viz.: one third to go off, and 

 come in yearly. 



XVI. That from and after the death of this present Governor, the pro- 

 vincial Council shall, together with the succeeding Governor, 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 territories thereof; and that the provincial Council shall, on the 

 thirteenth day of the second month then next ensuing, elect and present 

 to the Governor, or his Deputy, a double number of persons, to serve for 

 Judges, Treasurers, and Masters of the Kolls, within the said province 

 and territories, to continue so long as they shall well behave themselves, 

 in those capacities respectively; and the freemen of the said province, in 

 an Assembly met on the thirteenth day of the third month, yearly, shall 



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