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gular land and sea service, officers of the militia, registers of the
land office, surveyors, and all other civil officers of government (as-
sessors, constables and overseers of the roads only excepted) and
may also suspend or remove any civil officer who has not a commis-
sion, during good behaviour, and may suspend any militia officer for
one month, and may also suspend or remove any regular officer in
the land or sea service; and the governor may remove or suspend
any militia officer in pursuance of the judgment of a court martial.

45. "That all civil officers, of the appointment of the governor
and council, who do not hold commissions during good behaviour,
shall be appointed annually in the third week of November, but if
any of them shall be re-appointed, they may continue to act with-
out any new commission or qualification; and every officer though
not re-appointed shall continue to act until the person who shall be
appointed and commissioned in his stead, shall be qualified.

46. " That the governor, and every member of the council, be-
fore they act as such, shall respectively take an oath, " that he will
not, through favor, affection, or partiality, vote for any person to
office, and that he will vote for such person as in his judgment and
conscience he believes best qualified for the office, and that he has
not made, nor will make, any promise or engagement to give his
vote or interest in favor of any person."

47. " That there be two registers of the land office, one upon
the western, and one upon the eastern shore; that short extracts of
the grants and certificates of the land on the western and eastern
shores respectively be made in separate books, at the public ex-
pense, and deposited in the offices of the said registers, in such
manner as shall hereafter be provided by the general assembly.

48. " That every chancellor, judge, register of wills, commis-
sioner of the loan office, attorney general, sheriff, treasurer, naval
officer, register of the land office, register of the chancery court,
and every clerk of the common law courts, surveyor, and auditor
of public accounts, before he acts as such, shall take an oath "that
he will not directly or indirectly receive any fee or reward for do-
ing his office of ———— but what, is or shall be allowed by law,
nor will directly or indirectly receive the profits or any part of the
profits of any office held by any other person, and that he does
not hold the same office in trust or for the benefit of any other
person."

49. " That if any governor, chancellor, judge, register of wills,
attorney general, register of the land office, commissioner of the
loan office, register of the chancery court, or any clerk of the com-
mon law courts, treasurer, naval officer, sheriff, surveyor, or auditor