XV.

A N D that the Representatives of the People in provincial Council and

Assembly, may in after Ages bear some Proportion with the Increase and

multiplying of the People, the Number of such Representatives of the

People, may be from Time to Time increased and enlarged, so as at no

Time the Number exceed _seventy-two_ for the provincial Council, and

_two hundred_ for the Assembly; the Appointment and Proportion of which

Number, as also the laying and methodizing of the Choice of such

Representatives in future Time, most equally to the Division of the

Country, or Number of the Inhabitants, is left to the Governor and

provincial Council to propose, and the Assembly to resolve, so that the

Order of Proportion be strictly observed, both in the Choice of the

Council and the respective Committees thereof, _viz. one third_ to go

off and come in yearly.

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