384   Chancery Court Proceedings, 1671.





       Liber P C  Recorder of the Same and William Calvert Esquire, Jerome White
              Esquire, Daniell Jenifer, Garret Van Sweringen, Marke Cordea, and
              Thomas Cosden, Inhabitants Alsoe of the said Citty shall bee Alder
              men Thereof as long as they shall well behave Themselves therein
           p. 2   Haveing ffirst taken the Oath of ffidelity as also the oath Appointed
              by us to bee taken by the Mayor Alderman and Recorder of the
              Citty of Saint Maries citty and to be Administered unto them
              Respectively by our Lieutenant of the sd Province for the Time
              being or by such person or persons as wee or our heirs or our
              Lieutenant of the said Province for the time being shall from time
              to time Authorize and Appoint to Administer the same and the
              said Mayor Recorder and Alderman or the Major part of them
              shall Elect and Chuse Tenn other of the most sufficient Inhabitants
              of the said Citty to bee of the Comon councill thereof for soe long
              Time as they shall well behave Themselves therein and that for the
              future the said Mayor Recorder Aldermen and Comon councill
              shall Assemble in some convenient Place wthin the said Citty on or
              uppon the Third day of November Every Yeare and shall then and
              there Elect and Chuse by the Major Vote of such of them as shall
              bee then prsent one other of of the Aldermen of the said Citty for
              the time being to bee Mayor of the said Citty for the Ensueing Yeare
              and uppon Decease or Remooveall of the sd Mayor of the said
              Citty for the time being or uppon any Decease or Deceases Remoove
              all or Remoovealls of the said Recorder or Aldermen or any of them
              or wthin one mounth after any such Respective Decease or Deceases
              Remoovall or Remoovalls the Residue of the said Aldermen together
              and Wth the said Mayor if hee shall bee liveing or the Major Part of
              them shall att a sett Time by them to bee Appointed wthin the sd
              Citty and precincts Elect and Nominate some other Person or Persons
              to bee Mayor Recorder Alderman or Aldermen of the said Citty
              in the Place and Places of such personn or persons soe Deceased
              or Remooved Respectively as the case shall Require soe as the said
              Mayor soe to bee Elected and Nominated bee att the Time of such
              Eleccon and Nominacon Actually one of the Aldermen of the said

           p.3    Citty and so as the said Recorder soe to bee Elected and Nominated
              bee A person Learned in the Lawes and soe as the said Alderman or

              Aldermen soe to bee Elected and nominated bee Actually att the
              time of such Elleccon and Nominacon of the Comon Councill of the
              sd Citty the said Mayor Recorder Alderman or Aldermen soe to bee
              Elected and Nominated first takeing the sevrall and Respective
              oathes herein Before menconed to bee Appointed to bee by them
              sevrally & Respectively taken as afforesd and shall Likewise then fill
              upp by the like Eleccon out of from and Among the Inhabitants of
              the said Citty the full Number of Tenn Persons to bee Comon
              Councilimen the said persons hereby appointed and named or here-