T H A T from and after the Death of this present Governor, the provincial
Council shall, together with the succeeding Governor, 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
Territories thereof; and that the provincial Council shall, on the
_thirteenth_ Day of the _second_ Month then next ensuing, elect and
present to the Governor or his Deputy, a double Number of Persons, to
serve for Judges, Treasurers, and Masters of the Rolls, within the said
Province and Territories, to continue so long as they shall well behave
themselves in those Capacities respectively; and the Freemen of the said
Province, in an Assembly met on the _thirteenth_ Day of the _third_
Month, yearly, shall elect and then 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 respective Presentments; or else the _first_
named in such Presentment for each Office as aforesaid, shall stand and
serve in that Office, the Time before respectively limited; and in Case
of Death or Default, such Vacancy shall be supplied by the Governor and
provincial Council in Manner aforesaid.