Which shall be administred to them by our Governour in Chief

Keeper of the greate Seale of this our Province for the time being or by

such other person or persons as wee our heirs and successors or our Gov^r

aforesaid ^for the time being shall from time to time authorise and appoyⁱⁿt

to administer the same and wee grant that the said Mayor Recorder

and Aldermen or the Major parte of them shall Ellect and Choose Tenn

others of the most sufficient of the Inhabitants of the said City being

ffreemen thereof to be of the Common Councill of the said City for soe

long time as they shall well behave themselves and to perpetuate

the succession of the said Mayor Recorder Aldermen and Common

Councill in all time to come wee doe grant that for the future they

shall assemble in some convenient place in the said Citty upon the feast

Day of S^t. Michaell the Archangell in every year and shall Ellect and

Choose by the Major Vote of such of them as shall be then present one

other of the Aldermen of the said Citty for the time being to be Mayor

of the Citty for the Ensueing year and upon Decease or removeal of the

said Mayor of the said City for the time being or upon any Decease or

Dece^asses Removeall or Removealls of the said Recorder or Aldermen

or any of them or within one month after such Respective Dece^asse or

Deceases Removall or Removalls the Residue of the said Aldermen

together with the said Mayor or if he shall be liveing or the major

parte of them shall att a sett time by them to be appointed within y^e

said City and presincts Ellect and nominate some other person or persons

to be mayor Recorder alderman or aldermen of the said Citty in the place

and places of such person or persons soe Deceased or removed Respective

ly as the case shall require soe as the said Mayor to be Ellected and

nominated be att the time of such Ellection and Nominacon actually

one of the Aldermen of the said Citty and soe as the said Recorder soe to

be Ellected and nominated be a person learned in the and soe as the said

Alderman or Aldermen soe to be Ellected and nominated be actually

att the time of such Ellection and nominacon of the Common Councill

of the said City the said Mayor Recorder, Alderman or Aldermen soe to be

Ellected and nominated first Takeing the S^rall and Respective Oaths

before menconed to be appointed as aforesaid and shall likewise then

fill up by the Election of the free voters of the said Citty out of and from

among the Inhabittants and freeholders of the said City the full number

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