A N D, to the End that all Laws prepared by the Governor and provincial
Council aforesaid, may yet have the more full Concurrence of the Freemen
of the Province, it is declared, granted, and confirmed, That at the
Time and Place or Places for the Choice of a provincial Council as
aforesaid, the said Freemen shall yearly chuse Members to serve in a
general Assembly as their Representatives, not exceeding two hundred
Persons, who shall yearly meet from the twentieth Day of the second
Month, which shall be in the Year _One Thousand Six Hundred Eighty and
Three_ following, in the capital Town or City of the said Province,
where during eight Days the several Members may freely confer with one
another; and, if any of them see meet, with a Committee of the
provincial Council (consisting of three out of each of the four
Committees aforesaid, being twelve in all) which shall be at that Time,
purposely appointed to receive from any of them Proposals for the
Alterations or Amendment of any of the said proposed and promulgated
Bills: And on the ninth Day from their so meeting, the said general
Assembly, after Reading over the proposed Bills by the Clerk of the
provincial Council, and the Occasions and Motives for them being opened
by the Governor or his Deputy, shall give their Affirmative or Negative,
which to them seemeth best, in such Manner as herein after is express'd.
But not less than two-thirds shall make a _Quorum_ in the Passing of
Laws, and Choice of such Officers as are by them to be chosen.