T H A T the Freemen in each respective County, at the Time and Place of
meeting for electing their Representatives to serve in Assembly, may as
often as there shall be Occasion, chuse a double Number of Persons to
present to the Governor for Sheriffs and Coroners, to serve for _three_
Years, if so long they behave themselves well; out of which respective
Elections and Presentments, the Governor shall nominate and
commissionate one for each of the said Offices, the _third_ Day after
such Presentment, or else the _first_ named in such Presentment, for
each Office as aforesaid, shall stand and serve in that Office for the
Time before respectively limited; and in Case of Death or Default, such
Vacancies shall be supplied by the Governor, to serve to the End of the
said Term.
P R O V I D E D A L W A Y S, That if the said Freemen, shall at any
Time neglect or decline to chuse a Person or Persons for either or both
the aforesaid Offices, then and in such Case, the Persons that are or
shall be in the respective Offices of Sheriffs or Coroners, at the Time
of Election, shall remain therein, until they shall be removed by
another Election as aforesaid.
A N D that the Justices of the respective Counties, shall or may nominate
and present to the Governor _three_ Persons, to serve for Clerk of the
Peace for the said County, when there is a Vacancy, one of which the
Governor shall commissionate, within _ten_ Days after such Presentment,
or else the _first_ nominated, shall serve in the said Office during
good Behaviour.