Chancery Court Proceedings, 1671.   387





    men and seaven comon councillmen Inhabiteing within the citty for Liber P C
    Evermore And That the said Mayor Recorder Aldermen and comon
    councillmen shall bee A Body Incorporate and one Comunity for
    Ever in Right and name And that they the sd Mayor Aldermen and
    Common councilimen shall have and Beare the name of Mayor Alder
    men and Comon councill of the Citty of Sainte Maries and by the
    same name they shall bee called and named and by noe other name
    and that by the same they shall bee persons able and capeable att
    Law to bee sued and to sue and to Act Execute and doe as a body
    Incorporate and to have Succession for Ever and to That End to have
    a Comon Seale and that Philip Calvert Esquire one of the Inhabitants
    of the said Citty shall for the Present bee and bee named Mayor of
    the said Citty for the Ensueing Yeare and John Morecroft Recorder
    of the same William Calvert Esquire Edward ffitzherbert Esquire
    Thomas Notely Gent Daniell Jenifer Gent Garret Vansweringen
    Gent and Marke Cordea Inhabitants alsoe of the said Citty shall
    bee Aldermen thereof as Long as they shall well behave themselves
    Therein haveing ffirst taken the oath of ffidelity as alsoe the Oath
    Appointed by us to bee taken by the Mayor Aldermen and Recorder
    of the citty of Saint Maries and to bee Administered to them Re
    spectively by our Lieut of our said Province for the Time being or
    by Such person or persons as wee or our heires or our Lieut of our
    said Province shall from time to time Authorize and appoint to
    Administer the Same and that Thomas Dent Richard Moy, William
    Brooke, Daniell Clocker, Thomas Innis, Thomas Winn, and Thomas
    Griffin shall bee of the Comon councill Thereof for soe Long time
    as they shall well behave themselves therein haveing ffirst taken the
    sevrll oathes herein menconed and that for the ifuture the said Mayor
    Recorder Aldermen and Comon Councillmen shall assemble in Some
    Convenient Place wthin the said Citty on or uppon the nine and
    twentieth Day of Septembr in Every Yeare and shall then and there
    Ellect by the Major Vote of such of them as shall bee then present
    one other Alderman of the Said Citty to bee Mayor of the Said
    Citty for the Ensueing Yeare and uppon Decease or Remooveall
    of the said Mayor of the Said Citty for the Time Being or uppon
    any Decease or Deceases Remooveall or Remoovealls of the Said
    Recorder or Aldermen or any of them or wthin one monthe After
    Such Respective Decease or Deceases Remooveall or Remoovealls p.8
    the Residue of the said Aldermen Together and with the Major if
    he shalbe living on or the major Part of them Shall att a Sett time
    by them to bee appointed wthin the said Citty and Province Elect
    and nominate Some of the person or persons to bee Mayor Recorder
    Alderman or Aldermen of the Said Citty in the Place and Places of
    such person or persons soe Deceased or Remooved Respectively as
    the case Shall Require Soe as the Said Major Soe to bee Elected
    and nominated bee at the time of Such Eleccon and nominacon