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A90411 The frame of the government of the province of Pennsylvania in America Penn, William, 1644-1718. 1691 (1691) Wing P1293; ESTC R42318 5,912 18

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and that he shall at no time therein perform any publick Act of State whatsoever that shall or may relate unto the Justice Trade Treasury or Safety of the Province and Territories as aforesaid but by and with the Advice and Consent of the Provincial Council thereof 13thly And to the end that all Bills prepared and agreed by the Governour and Provincial Council as aforesaid may yet have the more full concurrence of the Free-men of the Province and Territories thereof It is declared granted and confirmed that at the time and place in every County for the choice of one Person to serve in Provincial Council as aforesaid the respective Members thereof at their said Meeting shall yearly chuse out of themselves six Persons of most note for their Virtue Wisdom and Ability to serve in Assembly as their Representatives who shall yearly meet on the twentieth day of the third Moneth in the Capital Town or City of the said Province unless the Governour and Provincial Council shall think fit to appoint another place to meet in where during eight days the several Members may confer freely with one another and if any of them see meet with a Committee which shall be at that time purposely appointed to receive from any of them Proposals for the alteration or amendment of any of the said proposed promulgated Bills and on the nineth day from their so meeting the said Assembly after their reading over of the proposed Bills by the Clerk of the Provincial Council and the occasions and motives for them being open'd by the Governour or his Deputy shall upon the Question by him put give their Affirmative or Negative which to them seemeth best in such manner as is hereafter expressed but not less than two thirds shall make a Quorum in the passing of all Bills into Laws and choice of such Officers as are by them to be chosen 14th That the Laws so prepared and proposed as aforesaid that are assented to by the Assembly shall be enrolled as Laws of this Province and Territories thereof with this Stile By the Governour with the Assent and Approbation of the Free-men in Provincial Council and Assembly met And from henceforth the Meeting Sessions Acts and Proceedings of the Governour Provincial Council and Assembly shall be stiled and called The Meeting-Sessions and Proceeding of the Province of Pennsylvania and the Territories thereunto belonging 15th And 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 Numbers 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 Governour 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 16th That from and after the Death of this Present Governour the Provincial Council shall together with the succeeding Governour 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 Moneth then next ensuing elect and present to the Governour or his Deputy a double number of Persons to serve for Judges Treasurer and Master 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 Free-men of the said Province in an Assembly met on the thirteenth day of the third Moneth yearly elect and then Present to the Governour 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 Governour or his Deputy shall nominate and commissionate the proper numbers 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 cases of Death or Default such vacancy shall be supplyed by the Governour and Provincial Council in manner aforesaid 17th That the Assembly shall continue so long as may be needful to impeach Criminals fit to be there impeached to pass such Bills into Laws as are proposed to them which they shall think fit to pass into Laws and till such time as the Governour and Provincial Council shall declare That they have nothing further to propose unto them for their Assent and Approbation that declaration shall be a Dismiss to the Assembly for that time Which Assembly shall be notwithstanding capable of assembling together upon the summons of the Governour and Provincial-Council at any time during that year if the Governour and Provincial Council shall see occasion for their so assembling 18th That all the Elections of Members or Representatives of the People to serve in Provincial Council and Assembly and all Questions to be determined by both or either of them that relate to choice of Officers and all or any other Personal matters shall be resolved or determined by the Ballot and all things relating to the Preparing and passing of Bills into Laws shall be openly declared and resolved by the Vote 19th That at all times when the Proprietary and Governour shall happen to be an Infant under the Age of one and twenty Years and no Guardians or Commissioners are appointed in writing by the Father of the said Infant or that such Guardian shall be deceased that during such Minority the Provincial Council shall from time to time as they shall see meet constitute and appoint Guardians Commissioners not exceeding three one of which shall preside as Deputy and chief Guardian during such Minority and shall have and execute with the consent of one of the other two all the Power of a Governour in all publick Affairs and Concerns of the said Province and Territories thereof according to Charter which said Guardian so appointed shall also have the care over-sight of the Estate of the said Minor and be yearly accountable and responsable for the same to the Provincial Council and the Provincial Council to the Minor when of Age or to the next Heir in case of the Minor's death for the Trust before expressed 20th That as often as the days of the Month mentioned in any Article of this Charter shall fall upon the First day of the Week commonly called the Lords day the business appointed for that day shall be differred till the next day unless in cases of Emergency 21. And for the Satisfaction and Encouragement of all Aliens I do give and grant that if any Alien who is or shall be a purchasor or who doth or shall inhabit in this Province or Territories thereof shall decease at any time before he can well be naturalized his Right and Interest therein shall notwithstanding descend to his Wife and Children or other his Relations be he Testate or Intestate according to the Laws of this Province and Territories thereof in such cases provided in as free and ample manner to all intents and purposes as if the said Alien had been naturaliz'd 22. And that the Inhabitants of this Province and Territories thereof may be accommodated with such Food and Sustenance as God in his Providence hath freely afforded I do also further grant to the Inhabitants of this Province Territories thereof liberty to fowl and hunt upon the Lands they hold or all other Lands therein not enclosed and to fish in all Waters in the said Lands and in all Rivers and Rivulets in and belonging to this Province and Territories thereof with liberty to draw his or their Fish on shore on any mans Lands so as it be not to the detriment or annoyance of the Owner thereof except such Lands as do lie upon Inland Rivulets that are not boatable or which are or may be hereafter erected into Mannors 23. And that all the Inhabitants of this Province and Territories thereof whether Purchasors or others may have the last worldly Pledge of my good and kind Intentions to them and their Heirs I do give grant and confirm to all and every one of them full and quiet Possession of their respective Lands to which they have any lawful or equitable Claim saving only such Rents and Services for the same as are or customarily ought to be reserved to Me my Heirs Assigns 24. That no Act Law or Ordinance whatsoever shall at any time hereafter be made or done by the Proprietary and Governour of this Province and Territories thereunto belonging his Heirs or Assigns or by the Free-men in Provincial Council or Assembly to alter change or diminish the form or effect of this Charter or any part or clause thereof contrary to the true intent and meaning thereof without the consent of the Proprietary and Governour his Heirs or Assigns and Six parts of Seven of the said Free-men in Provincial Council and Assembly met 25. And Lastly I the said William Penn Proprietary and Governour of the Province of Pennsylvania and Territories thereto belonging for me my Heirs and Assigns have solemnly Declared Granted and Confirmed and do hereby solemnly Declare Grant Confirm tha● neither I my Heirs nor Assigns shall procure or do any thing or things whereby the Liberties in this Charter contained and expressed shall be infringed or broken And if any thing be procured by any Person or Persons contrary to these Premises it shall be held of no force or effect In Witness whereof I the said William Penn at Philadelphia in Pennsylvania have unto this present Charter of Liberties set my Hand and broad Seal this second day of the second Moneth in the Year of our Lord 1683. being the thirty fifth year of the King and the third year of my Government William Penn. THE END