42 AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY. 



and such person or persons, as shall give, or promise, any such reward 

 to be elected, or that shall ofter to serve for nothing, or for less wages 

 than the law prescribes, shall be thereby rendered incapable to serve in 

 Council, or Assembly, for that year ; and the representatives so chosen, 

 either for Council or Assembly, shall yield their attendance accordingly, 

 and be the sole judges of the regularity, or irregularity of the elections 

 of their respective Members ; and if any person, or persons, chosen to 

 serve in Council, or Assembly, shall be wilfully absent from the service, 

 he or they are so chosen to attend, or be deceased, or rendered incapable, 

 then, and in all such cases, it shall be lawful for the Governor, within 

 ten days after knowledge of the same, to issue forth a writ to the Sheriff 

 of the county, for which the said person, or persons, were chosen, imme- 

 diately to summons the freemen of the same to elect another member in 

 the room of such absent, deceased, or incapable person or persons; and 

 in case any Sheriff shall misbehave himself, in the management of any of 

 the said elections, he shall be punished accordingly, at the discretion of 

 the Governor and Council, for the time being. 



Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That every member 

 now chosen, or hereafter to be choseUj by the freemen as aforesaid, to 

 serve in Council, and the Speaker of the Assembly, shall be allowed five 

 shillings by the day, during his and their attendance; and every Mem- 

 ber of Assembly shall be allowed four shillings by the day, during his 

 attendance on the service of the Assembly ; and that every Member of 

 Council and Assembly shall be allowed towards their traveling charges 

 after the rate of two pence each mile, both going to, and coming from, 

 the place, where the Council and Assembly is, or shall be, held ; all 

 which sums shall be paid yearly out of the count}^ levies, by the county 

 receivers respectively. 



And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That the Gover- 

 nor, or his Deputy, shall always preside in the Council, and that he shall, 

 at no time, perform any public act of state whatsoever, that shall, or may 

 relate unto the justice, treasury or trade of the province and territories, 

 but by and with the advice and consent of the Council tliereof, or major 

 part of them that shall be present. 



And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That all the 

 Sheriffs and Clerks of the respective counties of the said province, and 

 territories, who are, or shall be, commissionated, shall give good and 

 sufficient security to the Governor, for answering the king and his peo- 

 ple, in matters relating to the said offices respectively. 



And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That the Coun- 

 cil, in all cases and matters of moment, as about erecting courts of justice, 

 sitting in judgment upon persons impeached, and upon bills and other 

 matters, that may be, from time to time, presented by the Assembly, not 



