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Public
Record
Office,
London.
C. O. 5,
Vol. 731,
Maryland.
From
1694-1702.
Acts
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he who is so elected preferred and nominated into the place of Rector
as aforesaid shall have power to have exercise & enjoye the Said
Office of Rector for one whole yeare (except before excepted) then
next ensuing and thereafter untill some other Rector of the said
Schoole or Schooles shall be duly elected preferred to & sworne in
the Said Office. And to perpetuate the Succession of the said Rectors
Governors and Visitors that as often as one or more of the Gov-
ernors or Visitors of the said Schoole or Schooles shall dye or remoove
himself and Family out of this Province into any other Countrey for
good & all, that then & so often the Rector for the tyme being and
the other Visitors and Governors of the said Freeschoole & Schooles
then surviving and remaining within the Province or the Major parte
of them shall & may have Leave to elect nominate and choose one or
more of the Principall & better sort of the Inhabitants of the said
Province into the place or places of the said Governors and Visitors
soe dead or removed and so to fill up the number of Visitors and
Governors for the said Schoole and Schooles And that he and they
so elected & chosen shall take his or their Corporall Oath before the
Rector and other Visitors & Governors as aforesaid or the Major
parte of them well & 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 taking of the Said Oath he or they
shall be of the number of the said Visitors and Governors of the said
Schoole or Schooles. And further that the said Rector for the tyme
being by and with the advice and consent of three or more of the
said Governors and Visitors shall & may from tyme to tyme and as
often as need shall require and they see convenient call and Convocate
the said Governors and Visitors togeather to doe consult and Consent
to such things as for the propagacon good and benefitt of the said
Freeschoole or Schooles shall be ordeyned and established, and that
the said Governors and Visitors shall and may hold such their Court
or Convocation in such Freeschoole or such part thereof as to them
shall seem convenient, and shall & may from tyme to tyme punish
any disorders breaches Misdemeanours or Offences of any Master
Usher or Scribe or Schollers of any such Free Schoole or Schooles
against any the Orders laws or decrees of the said Governors and
Visitors aforesaid, And if they find cause to alter displace and turne
out any Master Usher or Scribe of any such Schoole or Schooles and
put others in their steads and places as to the said Rectors Governors
& Visitors of the said Schoole or Schooles or the major part of them
shall seem convenient and fitting And also that the said Rectors
Governors and Visitors of the said free schoole or Schooles and their
Successors shall have one Common Seale which they may make use
of in whatsoever cause and business belonging to them and their
Successors in relateing to their said Offices of Rectors Governors
and Visitors may have leave to breake change & renew their said
Seale from tyme to tyme at their pleasure as they shall see most
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