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591 Bladen John Freeman Benjamin Fordham Evan Jones Thomas Bord Josiah Willson Esq.rs Inhabitants of the Said City Shall be Aldermen thereof so long as they shall well behave themselves therein haveing first [illegible] subscribed the Tests and Severall Oaths for Secûrity of the Governm.t by Law established and also the Oath appointed by ûs or oûr Present Governoûr in Chiefe or Keeper of the Great Seal of this oûr Province for the Time being or by Such other Person or Persons to be taken by the Mayor Recorder and Aldermen of the City of Annapolis aforesd such shall be administred to them by oûr Governoûr in Chief or Keeper of the Great Seal of this oûr Province for the Time being [illegible] Sûch other Person or Persons as wee oûr Heirs and Sûccessoûrs or oûr Governoûr aforesd for the time being shall from Time to Time Authorize and appoint to administer the same and wee grant that the Mayor Recorder and Aldermen or the Major part of them shall Elect and chuse tenn other of the most Sufficient of the Inhabitants and freeholders of the Said City being freeman thereof to be of the comon Coûncill of the Said City for So long time as they shall well behave themselves And to perpetuate the Succession of the said Mayor Recorder and Aldermen and Common Coûncill In all time to come we do grant that for the future they shall Assemble in some convenient time in the s.d City ûpon the feast day of Saint Michael in Every year and shall Elect and Chuse for the Ensuing Year by the Major Voter of such of them as shall be then present one Other of the Aldermen of the Said City for the Time being to be Mayor of the said City for the Ensûing year and ûpon decease or removeall of the s.d Mayor of the said City for the Time being or ûpon any decease or deceases removall or removealls of the said recorder or Aldermen or any of them or w.thin in one moneth after such respective decease or deceases removall or removalls the residue of the said Aldermen together & [illegible] Said Mayor if he shall be liveing or the major part of him shall att a sett time by them to be appointed w.thin the said and precincts Elect and nominate some other person or persons be Mayor Recorder Alderman or Aldermen of the s.d City in place and places of such person or persons so deceased or removed respectively as the Case shall reqûire so as the s.d Mayor so to be Elected and nominated be att the time of such Election and nomination of the Aldermen of the s.d City and so as the s.d Recorder so be Elected and nominated be a pson learned in the Laws and so as s.d Alderman or Aldermen so to be Elected and nominated be actually |
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