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A52210 The charter granted by Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary to the inhabitants of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England; Charter Massachusetts.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary) 1699 (1699) Wing M999; ESTC R7972 21,076 16

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Broadstreet John Richards Nathanael Saltonstall Wait Winthrop John Phillips James Russel Samuel Sewall Samuel Appleton Bartholomew Gedney John Hathorn Elisha Hutchinson Robert Pike Jonathan Corwin John Jolliffe Adam Winthrop Richard Middlecot John Foster Pater Serjeant Joseph Lynd Samuel Heyman Stephen Mason Thomas Hinkley William Bradford John Walley Barnabas Lothrop Job Alcot Samuel Daniel and Silvanus Davis Esq the first and present Councellors or Assistants of our said Province to continue in their said respective Offices or Trusts of Councellors or Assistants until the last Wednesday in May To continue until May 1693. and until others are chosen by the Assembly which shall be in the Year of our Lord 1693 and until other Councellors or Assistants shall be chosen and appointed in their stead in such manner as in these Presents is expressed And we do further by these Presents constitute and appoint our trusty and Well beloved Isaac Addington Esq to be our first and present Secretary of our said Province during our pleasure And our Will and Pleasure is That the Governour of our said Province for the time being shall have Authority from time to time at his Discretion The Governour with seven Assistants to be a Council to assemble and call together the Councellors or Assistants of our said Province for the time being And that the said Governour with the said Assistants or Councellours or seven of them at the least shall and may from time to time hold and keep a Council for the ordering and directing the Affairs of our said Province And further We Will and by these Presents for Us our Heirs and Successors do Ordain and Grant that there shall and may be convened A general Court or Assembly to be held the last Wednesday in May or oftener every Year held and kept by the Governour for the time being upon every last Wednesday in the Month of May every Year for ever and at all such other times as the Governour of our said Province shall think sit appoint a Great and General Court or Assembly which said Great General Court or Assembly shall consist of the Governour and Council or Assistants for the time being and of such Free-holders of our said Province or Territory as shall be from time to time elected or deputed by the major part of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the respective Towns or Places who shall be present at such Elections each of the said Towns and Places being hereby impowred to elect and depute Two Persons and no more to serve for and represent them respectively in the said Great and General Court or Assembly Two Assembly-men to be Chosen by the Freeholders in every Town To which Great and General Court or Assembly to be held as aforesaid We do hereby for Us our Heirs and Successors give and grant full Power and Authority from time to time to direct appoint and declare what number each County Town and Place shall elect and depute to serve for and represent them respectively in the said Great and General Court or Assembly Provided always that no Free holder or other person shall have a Vote in the Election of Members to Serve in any Great and General Court or Assembly to be held as aforesaid who at the time of such Election shall not have an Estate of Free hold in Land within our said Province or Territory to the value of Forty Shillings per Ann. at the least or other Estate to the value of Fifty Pounds sterling And that every Person who shall be so elected shall before he Sit or Act in the said Great and General Court or Assembly take the Oaths mentioned in an Act of Parliament made in the First Year of our Reign entituled An Act for Abrogating of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and appointing other Oaths and thereby appointed to be taken instead of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy And shall make repeat and subscribe the Declaration mentioned in the said Act before the Governour or Lieutenant or Deputy-Governour or any Two of the Assistants for the time being who shall be thereunto authorized and appointed by our said Governour The Governour has Power to Adjourn Prorogue and Dissolve the Assembly And that the Governour for the time being shall have full Power and Authority from time to time as he shall judge necessary to Adjourn Prorogue and Dissolve all Great and General Courts or Assemblies met and conven'd as aforesaid And our Will and Pleasure is and we do hereby for Us our Heirs and Successors grant establish and ordain That yearly once in every Year for ever hereafter the aforesaid number of Eight and twenty Councellors or Assistants shall be by the General Court or Assembly newly Chosen that is to say Eighteen at least of the Inhabitants of or Proprietors of Lands within the Territory formerly called the Colony of the Massachusetts-Bay and Four at the least of the Inhabitants of or Proprietors of Lands within the Territory formerly called New-Plymouth and Three at the least of the Inhabitants of The Governours Councellors to be Inhabitants or Proprietors of Land in New England or Proprietors of Lands within the Territory formerly called the Province of Maine and one at the least of the Inhabitants of or Proprietors of Land within the Territory lying between the River of Sagadahock and Nova Scotia And that the said Councellors or Assistants or any of them shall or may at any time hereafter be removed or displaced from their respective Places or Trust of Councellors or Assistants by any Great or General Court or Assembly and that if any of the said Councellors or Assistants shall happen to die or be removed as aforesaid before the General Day of Election that then and in every such Case the Great and General Court or Assembly at their first sitting may proceed to a New Election of one or more Councellors or Assistants in the room or place of such Councellors and Assistants so dying or removed And We do further grant and ordain Judges Sheriffs Justices c. to be appointed with the Consent of the Governours Council That it shall and may be lawful for the said Governour with the Advice and Consent of the Council or Asistants from time to time to nominate and appoint Judges Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer Sheriffs Provosts Marshals Justices of the Peace and other Officers to our Council and Courts of Justice belonging Provided alwayes that no such Nomination or Appointment of Officers be made without Notice first given or Summons issued out seven days before such Nomination or Appointment unto such of the said Councellors or Assistants as shall be at that time residing within our said Province And our Will and Pleasure is That the Governour and Lieutenant or Deputy-Governour and Councellors or Assistants for the time being and all other Officers to be Appointed or Chosen as aforesaid shall before the undertaking the Execution of their Offices