VIII. And that
they, the said Governors and Visitors and Trustees aforesaid,
and their Successors, shall for ever br Eighteen Men, and not exceeding
Twenty in the whole, to be elected and constituted in the Way and Manner
hereafter specified; of which one discreet and fit Person, that shall
be called
Rector of the said Free-School and Schools. And that, from
Time to Time,
and in all Times coming, the said Rector shall exercise the said Office
during
One Year (Death and legal Disability excepted) and after, till some others
of
the said Visitors and Governors of the said School and Schools shall be
duly
Elected, Preferred and Sworn to the said Office. And that, from Time
to
Time, and at all Times coming, after the said Year is expired, or after
the
Death of the said Rector, the Visitors or Governors of the said School
or
Schools, or the greatest part of them, or their Successors, should have
Power
to Elect and Nominate another discreet and fit Person from amongst themselves,
to be Rector of the said Free-School or Schools; 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 ensuing; and thereafter until
some other Rector of the said School or Schools shall be duly Elected,
Preferred
to, and Sworn in, the said Office.
IX. And to
perpetuate the Succession 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 himself 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 and Governors of the
said
Free-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
Chuse, one or more of the principal and better Sort 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 and they, so Elected
and
Chosen, shall take his and their corporal Oath before the Rector and other
Visitors and Governors as aforesaid, or the major Part 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
taking the
said oath, he or they shall be of the Number of the said Visitors and Governors
of the said School or Schools.
X. 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 Governors and Visitors
together,
to do, consult and consent to such Things, as for the Propagation, Good
and Benefit of the said Free-School or Schools, shall be ordained and established.
And that the said Governors and Visitors shall, and may hold such
their Court and Convocation in such Free-School, or such Part thereof,
as to
them shall see convenient. And shall and may, from Time to Time,
punish
any Disorder, Breaches, Misdemeanors or Offences, of any Master, Usher,
or Scribe, or Scholars, of any such Free-School or Schools, against any
Orders, Laws or Decrees of the said Governors and 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 their Steads
and
Places, or the major part of them, shall seem convenient and fitting.
XI. And also,
That the said Rectors, Governors and Visitors of the said
Free-School or Schools, and their Successors, shall have one common Seal,
which they may make Use of in whatsoever Cause and Business, belonging
to
them and their Successors, relating to the said Office of Rector, Governors |
CHAP.
XVII.
The Governors,
&c. not
to be fewer
than 18, nor
more than 20,
One of whom
to be Rector,
to be annually
Elected,
and Sworn.
Succession of
Governors,
&c. provided
for.
Power of the
Rector to call
the Governors
together.
Their Power
in Convocation,
to punish
Disorders,
&c.
To have a
common Seal. |
