324 Assembly Proceedings, Oct. 2-Nov. 17, 1753.

Liber H. S.
No. I

public Letters by the Laws of this Province are to be forwarded,
which are directed for his Lordship's Service; and every Inspector
or Inspectors to be chosen, and accepting the Office, shall not resign
his said Office, or refuse to act therein, until the First Day of Novem-
ber, yearly.

[In Case of
being
rechosen.]

p. 60

And be it further Enacted, That where the same Persons are, by
any of the Vestries, again rechose to serve as Inspectors for the Year
next following, they, and every of the said Inspectors, shall, if they
incline to serve, signify their Acceptance thereof, within Ten Days
next after such Time of their being so rechosen, which Signification
shall be made in the same Manner, as Persons appointed by his
Excellency the Governor to be Inspectors are by this Act before
directed, to signify their Refusal to accept of such Office.
And be it further Enacted, That in Case of the Death, Refusal,

[In Case of
the Death,
&c. of an
Inspector.]

or Removal of any Inspector or Inspectors, the Governor or Com-
mander in Chief, for the Time being, shall and may nominate and
appoint, any other Person or Persons mentioned in the last Recom-
mendation, to be sent him from such Vestrymen and Churchwardens
for any Inspection, where a Vacancy shall or may happen, as afore-
said, to succeed any Inspector or Inspectors, as aforesaid refusing,
removed, or dead: But should it so happen, that by Deaths, Refusals,
or Removals, there should not be Persons enough left in the Nomi-
nations of the respective Vestrymen and Churchwardens, so as afore-
said to be transmitted, for the Appointment of the Governor or Com-
mander in Chief, then and in such Case, the Vestrymen and Church-
wardens of any Parish or Parishes, where this shall happen to be the
Case, shall immediately meet, as aforesaid, and elect Four or Two,
as the Case shall require, for Inspector or Inspectors, and, as before,
transmit Certificates of such Nomination and Recommendation to
the Sheriff of the said County, who shall forthwith transmit the same
to the Clerk of the Council, to be as before laid by him before the
Governor or Commander in Chief, out of which the said Governor,
or Commander in Chief, shall appoint a sufficient Number according
to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act, to serve as Inspector or
Inspectors respectively, according and in pursuance of the Recom-
mendation aforesaid, from the respective Vestrymen and Church-
wardens.

[Proviso.]

Provided always, And it is the true Intent and Meaning of this
Act, that though the Vestrymen and Churchwardens are to elect
Inspectors annually, yet where they elect again a former Inspector
or Inspectors, they shall continue such without any new Appointment
by the Governor, or Commander in Chief.

[Vestries not
to neglect to
meet,]

p. 61

And be it further Enacted, That every Vestryman or Church-
warden who shall neglect or refuse (not being prevented by Sickness,
or some unavoidable Accident) to meet according to the Directions
of this Act, to nominate and recommend an Inspector or Inspectors,
or who being so met, shall omit, neglect, or refuse, to nominate and