T H E R E being _three_ Persons already chosen for every respective
County of this Province and Territories thereof, to serve in the
provincial Council, _one_ of them for _three_ Years, _one_ for _two_
Years, and _one_ for _one_ Year; and _one_ of them being to go off
yearly in every County; that on the _tenth_ Day of the _first_ Month
yearly, for ever after, the Freemen of the said Province and Territories
thereof shall meet together in the most convenient Place in every County
of this Province and Territories thereof, then and there to chuse _one_
Person, qualified as aforesaid, in every County, being _one third_ of
the Number to serve in provincial Council, for _three_ Years; it being
intended, that _one third_ of the whole provincial Council, consisting
and to consist of _eighteen_ Persons, falling off yearly, it shall be
yearly supplied with such yearly Elections, as aforesaid; and that _one_
Person shall not continue in 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.