34 AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY. 



elect and then present to the Governor, or his Deputy, a double number 

 of persons to serve for Sheriffs, Justices of the Peace, and Coroners, for 

 the year next ensuing ; out of which respective elections and present- 

 ments, the Governor, or his Deputy, shall nominate and coramissionate 

 the proper number for each office, the third day after the said respec- 

 tive presentments; or else the first named in such presentment, for 

 each office, as aforesaid, shall stand and serve in that office, the time 

 before respectively limited; and in case of death or default, such 

 vacancy shall be supplied by the Governor and provincial Council in 

 manner aforesaid. 



XVII. That the Assembly shall continue so long as may be needful 

 to impeach criminals, lit to be there impeached, to pass such bills into 

 laws as are proposed to them, which they shall think fit to pass into laws, 

 and till such time as the Governor and provincial Council shall declare, 

 that they have nothing further to propose unto them, for their assent 

 and approbation, and that declaration shall be a dismiss to the Assembly, 

 for that time; which Assembly shall be, notwithstanding, capable of 

 assembling together, upon the summons of the Governor and provincial 

 Council, at any time, during that year, if the Governor and provincial 

 Council shall see occasion for their so assembling. 



XVIII. That all the elections of members, or representatives of the 

 people to serve in provincial Council and Assembly, and all questions to 

 be determined by both, or either of them, that relate to choice of officers, 

 and all, or any other personal matters, shall be resolved or determined 

 by the hallot^ and all things relating to the preparing and passing of bills 

 into laws, shall be openly declared and resolved by the vote. 



XIX. That, at all times, when the Proprietary and Governor shall 

 happen to be an infant, and 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 guardian shall be deceased, that during such 

 minority, the provincial Council shall, from time to time, as they shall 

 see meet, constitute and appoint guardians and commissioners, not ex- 

 ceeding three, one of which shall preside as deputy, and chief guardian, 

 during such minority, and shall have and execute, with the consent of 

 one of the other two, all the power of a Governor, in all public affairs 

 and concerns of the said province and territories thereof, according to 

 charter ; which said guardian so appointed, shall also have the care and 

 oversight of the estate of the said minor, and be yearly accountable and 

 responsible for the same to the provincial Council, and the provincial 

 Council to the minor, when of age, or to the next heir, in case of the 

 minor's death, for the trust before expressed. 



XX. That as often as any days of the month mentioned in any article 

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



