AND that all Persons who also profess to believe in _Jesus Christ_, the
Saviour of the World, shall be capable (notwithstanding their other
Perswasions and Practices in Point of Conscience and Religion) to serve
this Government in any Capacity, both legislatively and executively, he
or they solemnly promising, when lawfully required, Allegiance to the
King as Sovereign, and Fidelity to the Proprietary and Governor,...
II.
FOR the well governing of this Province and Territories, there shall
be an Assembly yearly chosen by the Freemen thereof, to consist of
Four Persons out of each County, of most Note for Virtue, Wisdom,
and Ability (or of a greater Number at any Time, as the Governor and
Assembly shall agree) upon the first Day of _October_ for ever; and
shall sit on the fourteenth Day of the same Month at _Philadelphia_,
unless the Governor and Council for the Time being, shall see Cause to
appoint another Place within the said Province or Territories: Which
Assembly shall have Power to chuse a Speaker and other their Officers;
and shall be judges of the Qualifications and Elections of their own
Members; =_sit upon their own Adjournments_=; appoint Committees;
prepare Bills, in order to pass into Laws; impeach Criminals, and
redress Grievances; and shall have all other Powers and Privileges
of an Assembly, according to the Rights of the Freeborn Subjects
of _England_, and as is usual in any of the King's Plantations in
_America_.
AND if any County or Counties, shall refuse or neglect to chuse their
respective Representatives as aforesaid, or if chosen, do not meet to
serve in Assembly, those who are so chosen and met, shall have the full
Power of an Assembly, in as ample Manner as if all the Representatives
had been chosen and met, provided they are not less than Two Thirds of
the whole Number that ought to meet.
AND that the Qualifications of Electors and Elected, and all other
Matters and Things relating to Elections of Representatives to serve in
Assemblies, tho' not herein particularly expressed, shall be and remain
as by a Law of this Government, made at _Newcastle_ in the _Year One
Thousand Seven Hundred_, intituled, _An Act to ascertain the Number of
Members of Assembly, and to regulate the Elections_.[99]
III.
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