48 AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY. 



own adjournments, appoint committees; propose bills, in order to pass 

 into laws; impeacli criminals and redress grievances; and shall have all 

 other powers and privileges of an Assembly, according to the rights of 

 the freeborn subjects of Emjland^ and as is usual in any of the King's 

 plantations in America. 



"And if any county, or counties, shall refuse, or neglect to chuse their 

 respective representatives, as aforesaid, or if chosen, do not meet to serve 

 in Assembly, those, who are so chosen and met, shall have the full power 

 of an Assembly, in as ample a manner as if all the Representatives had 

 been chosen and met, provided they are not less than two-thirds ©f the 

 whole number, that ought to meet. 



" And, that the qualifications of electors and elected, and all other mat- 

 ters and things relating to elections of Representatives, to serve in As- 

 semblies, though not herein particularly expressed, shall be and remain, 

 as by a law of this government, made at Newcastle^ in the year one thou- 

 sand seven hundred, entitled, ^ An act to ascertain the number of memhers 

 of Assembly^ and to regulate the elections.^ 



III. "That the freemen in each respective county, at the time and 

 place of meeting, for electing their representatives, to serve in Assembly, 

 may, so often as there shall be occasion, chuse a double number of per- 

 sons, to present to the Governor, for sheriffs and coroners, to serve for 

 three years if they so long behave themselves well, out of which elec- 

 tions and presentments the Governor shall nominate and commissionate 

 one for each of the said offices, the third after such presentment, or else 

 the first named in such presentment, for each office, as aforesaid, shall 

 stand and serve in that office, for the time before respectively limited : 

 In case of death and default, such vacancies shall be supplied by the 

 Governor, to serve to the end of the said term. 



"Provided always, That, if the said freemen shall, at any time neglect, 

 or decline to chuse a person, or persons, for either, or both the afore- 

 said offices, then, and in such case, the persons, that are, or shall be, in 

 the respective offices of Sheriffs, or Coroners, at the time of election, shall 

 remain therein, until they shall be removed by another election, as 

 aforesaid. 



"And, that the justices of the respective counties shall, or may nomi- 

 nate, or present, to the Governor, three persons, to serve for Clerk of 

 the Peace for the said county, where there is a vacancy ; one of which 

 the Governor shall commissionate within ten days after such presentment, 

 or else the first nominated shall serve in the said office, during good 

 behaviour. 



IV. "That the laws of this government shall be in this stile, viz: By 

 the Governor^ ivith the consent and approbation of the Freemen in General 

 Assembly met^ and shall be, after confirmation by the Governor, forth- 



