T H A T the Governor and the provincial Council shall erect from time to
time standing Courts of Justice, in such Places and Number as they shall
judge convenient for the good Government of the said Province. And that
the provincial Council shall on the thirteenth Day of the first Month
yearly, elect and present to the Governor or his Deputy, a double Number
of Persons, to serve for Judges, Treasurers, Masters of Rolls, within
the said Province for the Year next ensuing; and the Freemen of the said
Province in the County-Courts, when they shall be erected, and till then
in the general Assembly, shall on the three and twentieth Day of the
second Month yearly, elect and present to the Governor or his Deputy, a
double Number of Persons to serve for Sheriffs, Justices of the Peace,
and Coroners, for the Year next ensuing; out of which respective
Elections and Presentments, the Governor or his Deputy shall nominate
and commissionate the proper Number for each Office the third Day after
the said Presentments; or else the first named in such Presentment for
each Office, shall stand and serve for that Office the Year ensuing.