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to be held as aforesaid who at the time of such Eleccon shall not have 

 an estate of Freehold in Land within Our said Province or Territory 

 to the value of Forty Shillings per Annu at the least or other estate 

 to the value of Forty pounds Sterl' And that every Person who 

 shall be soe elected shall before he sitt or Act in the said Great and 

 Genera 11 Court or Assembly take the Oaths menconed in an Act of 

 Parliament made in the first yeare of Our Reigne Entituled an Act 

 for abrogateing of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and 

 appointing other Oaths and thereby appointed to be taken instead 

 of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and shall make Repeat 

 and Subscribe the Declaracon menconed in the said Act before the 

 Governour and Leivten* or Deputy Governour or any two of the 

 Assistants for the time being who shall be there vn to authorized and 

 Appointed by Our said Governour and that the Governour for the 

 time being shall have full power and Authority from time to time 

 as he shall Judge necessary to adjourne Prorogue and dissolve all 

 Great and Generall Courts or Assemblyes met and convened as afore- 

 said And Our Will and Pleasure is and Wee doe hereby for Vs Our 

 Heires and Successors Grant Establish and Ordeyne that yearly once 

 in every yeare for ever hereafter the aforesaid Number of Eight and 

 Twenty Councillors or Assistants shall be by the Generall Court or 

 Assembly newly chosen that is to say Eighteen at least of the Inhab- 

 itants of or Proprietors of Lands within the Territory formerly called 

 the Collony of the Massachusetts Bay and four at the least of the 

 Inhabitants of or Proprietors of Lands within the Territory formerly 

 called New Plymouth and three at the least of the Inhabitants of 

 or Proprietors of Land within the Territory formerly called the 

 Province of Main and one at the least of the inhabitants of or Pro- 

 prietors of Land within the Territory lying between the River of 

 Sagadahoc and Nova Scotia. And that the said Councillors or 

 Assistants or any of them shall or may at any time hereafter be 

 removed or displaced from their respective Places or Trust of Coun- 

 cillors or Assistants by any Great or Generall Court or Assembly 

 And that if any of the said Councillors or Assistants shall happen to 

 dye or be removed as aforesaid before the Generall day of Eleccon 

 That then and in every such Case the Great and Generall Court or 

 Assembly at their first sitting may proceed to a New Eleccon of one 

 or more Councillors or Assistants in the roome or place of such Coun- 

 cillors or Assistants soe dying or removed And Wee doe further 

 Grant and Ordeyne that it shall and may be lawfull for the said 

 Governour with the advice and consent of the Councill or Assistants 

 from time to time to nominate and appoint Judges Commissioners 

 of Oyer and Terminer Sheriffs Provosts Marshalls Justices of the 

 Peace and other Officers to Our Councill and Courts of Justice belong- 

 ing Provided alwaves that noe such Nominacon or Appointment of 

 Officers be made without notice first given or sumons yssued out 

 seaven dayes before such Nominacon or Appointment vnto such of 

 the said Councillors or Assistants as shall be at that time resideing 

 within Our said Province And Our Will and Pleasure is that the 

 Governour and Leivten 1 or Deputy Governour and Councillors or 

 Assistants for the time being and all other Officers to be appointed 

 or Chosen as aforesaid shall before the Vndertaking the Execucon 

 of their Offices and Places respectively take their severall and respec- 

 tive Oaths for the due and faithfull performance of their duties in 



