T H A T at the first Choice of such provincial Council, one third part
of the said provincial Council shall be chosen to serve for three Years
then next ensuing, one third part for two Years then next ensuing, and
one third part for one Year then next following such Election, and no
longer; and that the said third part shall go out accordingly: And on
the twentieth Day of the twelfth Month as aforesaid, yearly for ever
afterward, the Freemen of the said Province shall in like Manner meet
and assemble together, and then chuse Twenty-four Persons, being one
third of the said Number, to serve in provincial Council for three
Years: It being intended, that one third part of the whole provincial
Council (always consisting, and to consist of seventy-two Persons, as
aforesaid) falling off yearly, it shall be yearly supplied by such new
yearly Elections, as aforesaid; and that no one Person shall continue
therein longer than three Years: And in case any Member shall decease
before the last Election during his Time, that then at the next Election
ensuing his Decease, another shall be chosen to supply his Place for the
remaining Time he was to have served, and no longer.