The foresaid deputyes shall be chosen in manner following: every person
that is present and quallified as before expressed, shall bring the
names of such, written in severall papers as they desire to have chosen
for that Imployment, and these 3 or 4, more or lesse, being the number
agreed on to be chosen for that tyme, that have greatest number of
papers written for them shall be deputyes for that Courte; whose names
shall be endorsed on the backe side of the warrant and returned into
the Courte, with the Constable or Constables hand unto the same.
8. It is Ordered, sentenced and decreed, that Wyndsor, Hartford and
Wethersfield shall have power, ech Towne, to send fower of their
freemen as their deputyes to every Generall Courte; and whatsoever
other Townes shall be hereafter added to this Jurisdiction, they shall
send so many deputyes as the Courte shall judge meete, a resonable
proportion to the number of Freemen that are in the said Townes being
to be attended therein; which deputyes shall have the power of the
whole Towne to give their voats and alowance to all such lawes and
orders as may be for the publike good, and unto which the said Townes
are to be bownd.
9. It is ordered and decreed, that the deputyes thus chosen shall have
power and liberty to appoynt a tyme and a place of meeting togather
before any Generall Courte to advise and consult of all such things as
may concerne the good of the publike, as also to examine their owne
Elections, whether according to the order, and if they or the gretest
parte of them find any election to be illegall they may seclud such for
[the] present from their meeting, and returne the same and their resons
to the Courte; and if yt prove true, the Courte may fyne the party or
partyes so intruding and the Towne, if they see cause, and give out
a warrant to goe to a newe election in a legall way, either in parte
or in whole. Also the said deputyes shall have power to fyne any that
shall be disorderly at their meetings, or for not comming in due tyme
or place according to appoyntment; and they may returne the said fynes
into the Courte if yt be refused to be paid, and the Tresurer to take
notice of yt, and to estreete or levy the same as he doth other fynes.
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