424 Assembly Proceedings, July 1-10, 1696.

Lib. L. L. 2

and fitt person from amongst themselves to be Rector of the
said ffree School or schooles and that he who is so Elected
preferred and nominated into the place of Rector as aforesaid
shall have power to have Exercise and Enjoy the said Office
of Rector for one whole year (Except before Excepted) then
next Ensueing and thereafter untill some other Rector of
the said School or Schools shall be duly Elected preferred
to and Sworne in the said office And to perpetuate the suc-

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cession of the said Governors Rectors and Visitors that as
often as one or more of the Governors or Visitors of the said
School or Schools shall die or remove himselfe and family out
of this Province into any other Country for good and all that
then and so often the Rector for the time being and the other
Visitors & Govern^rs of the said ffree School and Schools then
Surviving and remaining within the Province or the Major
part of them shall and may have leave to Elect nominate and
Choose one or more of the Principall and better Sorte of the
Inhabitants of the said Province into the place or places of the
said Visitors and Governors so dead or removed and so to fill
up the number of the Visitors and Governors of the said School
and Schools and that he & they so Elected and Chosen shall
take his and their Corporall Oath before the Rector and other
Visitors and Governors as aforesaid or the Major of them well
and faithfully to Execute the said Office which Oath the Rector
and two or more of the said Visitors shall have power to
Administer and that after the takeing the said Oath he or they
shall be of the number of the said Visitors and Governo^rs of
the s^d School or Schools and further that the said Rector for
the time being by and with the advice and Consent of three or
more of the said Governors and Visitors shall and may from
time to time and as often as need shall require and they see
Convenient Call and Convocate the said Governo^rs and Visitors

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together to do Consult and Consent to such things as for the
Propagation good and benefitt of the said ffree School or
Schools shall be ordained and Established and that the said
Governors and Visitors shall and may hold such theire Court
or Convocation in such ffree School or such part thereof as to
them shall seem Convenient and shall and may from time to
time punish any disorder breaches Misdemeanors or Offences
of any Master Usher or Scribe or Schollars of any such ffree
School or Schools against any Orders Laws or decrees of the said
Governors & Visitors aforesaid and if they find Cause to alter
displace and turn out any Master Usher or Scribe of any such
School or Schools and put others in theire steads and places
as to the said Rectors Governors and Visitors of the said
School or Schools or the Major Part of them shall seem Con-
venient and fitting and also that the said Rectors Governors