T H A T, for the better Establishment of the Government and Laws of this
Province, and to the End there may be an universal Satisfaction in the
Laying of the Fundamentals thereof; the general Assembly shall, or may
for the first Year, consist of all the Freemen of and in the said
Province, and ever after it shall be yearly chosen as aforesaid; which
Number of two hundred shall be enlarged as the Country shall encrease in
People, so as it do not exceed five hundred at any Time: The Appointment
and Proportioning or which, as also the Laying and Methodizing of the
Choice of the provincial Council and general Assembly in future Times,
most equally to the Divisions of the Hundreds and Counties, which the
Country shall hereafter be divided into, shall be in the Power of the
provincial Council to propose, and the general Assembly to resolve.