And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, that the said Eight and Forty Persons shall be chosen in manner, as aforesaid, the Twelfth Day of _May_ next following, and shall continue in their Office until others shall be elected in their Rooms, according to the Direction herein after-mentioned; and in case any of the said Persons so Elected, or any other Person so Elected in their Room, shall, after their respective Elections, happen to die, That then it shall, and may be Lawful to and for the Alderman of the Ward, for which such Person so dying was Elected, or his Deputy, at a Court to be held within the said Ward for that purpose, within the Space of ten Days next after the Death of such Persons, to Elect others in their Place, in manner, as aforesaid; which Court and Election, such Alderman, or his Deputy, is and are hereby required to Hold and Make: Which said Mayor and Aldermen, and Forty-eight Persons, and such other Charitable Persons, so Elected and Constituted for the Time being, shall be called Guardians of the Poor of the City of _Bristol_. And to the intent that the said Guardians so Elected out of the said Wards may have perpetual Succession: Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the said respective Aldermen for the Time being, or their respective Deputies, shall and may, and are hereby required, on the first _Thursday_ in _April_, in every second Year, from henceforth, to hold a Court in their respective Wards, and then and there, by the Votes of the Inhabitants of such Ward, so qualified, as aforesaid, or of the Majority of them then present, to Elect and Choose two of the honestest and discreetest Persons out of the said Inhabitants of the said City, to be Guardians of the Poor of the said City for the said Ward; which Paid two Persons, so Elected, shall be Guardians, and shall succeed the two Persons before that first Elected, and then being Guardians for the said Ward; and the said two Persons so first Elected, shall immediately upon such Election, and Notice thereof given to them, cease to be Guardians.