Schools, who shall exercise the said Office during one
year (Death and Legal Disabilities excepted) and then 
the Governors shall elect and nominate another from
among themselves, to be Rector for one whole year next
ensuing, and thereafter till some other Rector shall be
duly elected and sworn into the said Office.
    IX.  As often as any one of the said Governors and
Visitors of the said Schools shall dye, or remove himself 
and Family out of this Province for good and all, the
Rector for the time being, and other Visitors and Governors
then remaining within this Province, or major 
part of them, shall nominate and choose one or more of
the Better sort of the Inhabitants of the said Province
into the Place or Places of those Departed, and the Party 
or Parties so chosen, shall take their Corporal Oath
before the Rector and Governors, well and faithfully
to execute the said Office.
    X.  The Rector for the time being, with the Consent
of three or more of the said Governors, shall and may
as often as they see convenient, convocate the said Governors
and Visitors together, to consult and consent to
such things as are for the Good and Benefit of the said
Free-Schools; and the said Governors and Visitors may
hold such their Court or Convocation in such Free-School
or part thereof as to them shall seem convenient;
and may from time to time punish any Disorders,
Misdemeanors or Offences of any Master, Usher, Scribe,
or Scholars of any such Free-Schools; and if they see
cause, displace or alter any Master, Usher, or Scribe of
any such School or Schools, and put others in their
places.
    XI.  And the said Rector, Governors and Visitors of
the said Schools, and their Successors, shall have one
Common Seal, to make use of in all Causes and Businesses
belonging to them and their Successors, in the said
Office of Rector, Governors, &c.  Which said Seal
they may break, change, and renew from time to time,
as they shall see most expedient.
    XII.  As soon as the said Rector, Governors, &c,
shall be enabled by any Gifts, Grants, &c. of Lands
and Tenements, or other Estate whatsoever, exceeding
120 l. per an. allotted for the support of the first Free-School
at Severn aforesaid; then as they shall be enabled,
they shall proceed to erect, found, and build one other

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