44 AUTHENTIC HISTOKY OF LANCASTER COUNTY. 



sentatives of the freemen, when met in Assembly, shall have power to 

 prepare and propose to the Governor and Council all such bills as they 

 or the major part of them, shall, at any time, see needful to be passed 

 into laws, within the said province and territories. 



Provided always. That nothing herein contained shall debar the Gov- 

 ernor and Council from recommending to the Assembly all such bills as 

 they shall think fit to be passed into laws ; and that the Council and As- 

 semby may, upon occasion, confer together in committees, when desired ; 

 all which proposed and prepared bills, or such of them, as the Governor, 

 with the advice of the Council, shall, in open Assembly, declare his assent 

 unto, shall be the laws of this province and territories thereof, and pub- 

 lished accordingly, with this stile. By tlie Governor^ with the assent and 

 approbation of the freemen in General Assembly met; a true transcript, or 

 duplicate Avhereof, shall be transmitted to the king's privy council, for 

 the time being, according to the said late king's letters patent. 



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

 bly, shall sit upon their own adjournments, and committees, and con- 

 tinue, in order to prepare and propose bills, redress grievances, and 

 impeach criminals, or such persons as they shall think fit to be there 

 impeached, until the Governor and Council, for the time being, shall 

 dismiss them ; which Assembly shall, notwithstanding such dismiss, be 

 capable of Assembling together upon summons of the Governor and 

 Council, at any time during that year; two-thirds of which Assembly, 

 in all cases, shall make a quorum. 



And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid. That all elections of 

 representatives for Council and Assembly, and all questions to be deter- 

 mined by them, shall be by the major part of votes. 



Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That as oft as any 

 days of the month, mentioned in any article of this act, shall fall upon 

 the first day of the week, commonly called the Lord's day, the business 

 appointed for that day, shall be deferred till the next day, unless in cases 

 of emergency. 



Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any alien, 

 who is, or shall be a purchaser of lands, or who doth, or shall inhabit in 

 this province, or territories thereof, shall decease at any time before he 

 can well be denizised, his right and interest therein shall notwithstanding 

 descend to his wife and children, or other, his relations, be he testate, or 

 intestate, according to the laws of this province and territories thereof, 

 in such cases provided, in as free and ample manner, to all intents and 

 purposes, as if the said alien had been denizised. 



And that the people may be accommodated with such food and suste- 

 nance as God, in his providence, hath freely afforded, Be it enacted by the 

 authority aforesaid. That the inhabitants of this province and territories 



