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VI.

T H A T the Governor and provincial Council shall take Care, that all Laws, Statutes, and Ordinances, which shall at any Time be made within the said Province and Territories, be duly and diligently executed.

VII.

T H A T the Governor and provincial Council shall, at all Times, have the Care of the Peace and Safety of this Province and Territories thereof; and that nothing be by any Person attempted to the Subversion of this Frame of Government.

VIII.

T H A T the Governor and provincial Council shall, at all Times, settle and order the Situation of all Cities and Market-towns in every County, modelling therein all publick Buildings, Streets, and Market-places; and shall appoint all necessary Roads and Highways in this Province and Territories thereof.

IX.

T H A T the Governor and provincial Council shall, at all Times, have Power to inspect the Management of the publick Treasury, and punish those who shall convert any Part thereof to any other Use, than what hath been agreed upon by the Governor, provincial Council, and a.s.sembly.

X.

T H A T the Governor and provincial Council, shall erect and order all publick Schools, and encourage and reward the Authors of useful Sciences and laudable Inventions, in the said Province and Territories thereof.

XI.

T H A T _one third_ of the provincial Council residing with the Governor, shall with the Governor, from Time to Time, have the Care of the Management of all publick Affairs, relating to the Peace, Justice, Treasury, and Improvement of the Province and Territories, and to the good Education of Youth, and Sobriety of the Manners of the Inhabitants therein, as aforesaid.

XII.

T H A T the Governor or his Deputy, shall always preside in the provincial Council, and that he shall at no Time therein perform any publick Act of State whatsoever, that shall or may relate unto the Justice, Trade, Treasury, or Safety of the Province and Territories aforesaid, but by and with the Advice and Consent of the provincial Council thereof.

XIII.

A N D to the End that all Bills prepared and agreed by the Governor and provincial Council, as aforesaid, may yet have the more full Concurrence of the Freemen of the Province and Territories thereof, it is declared, granted and confirmed, that at the Time and Place in every County, for the Choice of _one_ Person to serve in provincial Council, as aforesaid, the respective Members thereof, at their said Meeting, shall yearly chuse out of themselves _six_ Persons of most Note, for Virtue, Wisdom, and Ability, to serve in a.s.sembly, as their Representatives, who shall yearly meet on the _tenth_ Day of the _third_ Month, in the capital Town or City of the said Province, unless the Governor and provincial Council shall think fit to appoint another Place to meet in, where, during _eight_ Days, the several Members may confer freely with one another; and if any of them see meet, with a Committe of the provincial Council, which shall be at that Time purposely appointed, to receive from any of them, Proposals for the Alterations or Amendment of any of the said proposed and promulgated Bills; and on the _ninth_ Day from their so meeting, the said a.s.sembly, after their reading over of the proposed Bills, by the Clerk of the provincial Council, and the Occasions and Motives for them being opened by the Governor or his Deputy, shall, upon the Question by him put, give their Affirmative or Negative, which to them seemeth best, in such Manner as is hereafter expressed: But not less than _two thirds_ shall make a _Quorum_ in the pa.s.sing of all Bills into Laws, and Choice of such Officers as are by them to be chosen.

XIV.

T H A T the Laws so prepared and proposed as aforesaid, that are a.s.sented to by the a.s.sembly, shall be enrolled as Laws of this Province and Territories thereof, with this Stile, _By the Governor, with the a.s.sent and Approbation of the Freemen in provincial Council and a.s.sembly met_; and from henceforth, the Meetings, Sessions, Acts, and Proceedings of the Governor, provincial Council and a.s.sembly, shall be stiled and called, _The Meeting, Sessions, and Proceedings, of the general a.s.sembly of the Province of_ Pensylvania, _and the Territories thereunto belonging_.

XV.

A N D that the Representatives of the People in provincial Council and a.s.sembly, may in after Ages bear some Proportion with the Increase and multiplying of the People, the Number of such Representatives of the People, may be from Time to Time increased and enlarged, so as at no Time the Number exceed _seventy-two_ for the provincial Council, and _two hundred_ for the a.s.sembly; the Appointment and Proportion of which Number, as also the laying and methodizing of the Choice of such Representatives in future Time, most equally to the Division of the Country, or Number of the Inhabitants, is left to the Governor and provincial Council to propose, and the a.s.sembly to resolve, so that the Order of Proportion be strictly observed, both in the Choice of the Council and the respective Committees thereof, _viz. one third_ to go off and come in yearly.

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