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qualified as Visitors of the School of their said County, and as
such, are hereby invested with full Power and Authority, as
a Body Politic, to plead and be impleaded, to sue and be sued,
to defend and be defended, to answer and be answered, in all
and every Cause, Complaint and Action, real, personal or
mixt, of whatsoever Kind or Nature it shall be, in any of the
Courts and Places of Judicature within this Province; and
that they, or any of them, or any other Person or Persons
whatsoever, either before or after such School shall be
erected, founded and established, in any County as aforesaid,
have full Power to give and grant, assign and bequeath, all or
any Manors, Lands, Tenements, Rents, Services, Portions,
Annuities, Pensions, Inheritances, Franchises and Posses-
sions whatsoever, Spiritual or Temporal, to the value of One
Hundred Pounds Sterling, per Annum, (besides all Burthens,
Reprisals and Reparations) to them the said Visitors, or the
major Part, or Survivors of them incorporate, for such
County School, to them and their Successors for ever.
V. And further, That the said Persons so incorporate, the
longest Livers and Successors of them, shall be the true, sole
and undoubted Visitors of such Schools in perpetual Suc-
cession for ever; to be continued in the Way and Manner
hereafter specified; with full and absolute Power, Liberty
and Authority, in making and ordaining such Laws, Orders
and Rules for the good Government of the said Schools, as
to them the said Visitors, and their Successors, shall, from
Time to Time, according to their various Occasions and Cir-
cumstances, seem to them most fit and requisite; all which
shall be observed by the Master, Usher, Tutor, and Scholars
of the said School, upon the Penalties therein contained.
VI. Provided always, That the said Rules, Laws and
Orders, be no wise contrary to the Royal Prerogative, nor to
the Laws and Statutes of England, and Acts of Assembly of
this Province, or to the Canons and Constitutions of the
Church of England by Law established.
VII. And for the Perpetuating the Succession of the
aforementioned Number of Seven Visitors to each School as
aforesaid; Be it Enacted, by the Authority, Advice and Con-
sent aforesaid, That as often as any one or more of the Visi-
tors of any of the aforesaid Schools shall die, or remove him-
self and Family out of the Province, or into any other County
to reside, that then, and so often, the Visitors for the Time
being, then surviving and remaining within the County, or
the major Part of them, be, and are hereby authorized and
required to elect, nominate and Choose, one or more of the
principal and better sort of the Inhabitants of the County,
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