=And wee= do hereby give ... you full Power ... to suspend any of
the members of our said Council from sitting, Voting, and assisting
therein, if you shall find just cause for so doing: and if it shall
at any time happen that by the Death or Departure out of our said
Province, suspension of any of our said Councillors, or otherwise,
there shall be a Vacancy in our said Council (any three whereof we
do hereby appoint to be a Quorum), our Will and Pleasure is that you
signify the same to us by the first opportunity, that we may ...
appoint others in their stead; but that our affairs at that Distance
may not suffer for want of a due number of Councillors, if ever it
shall happen that there shall be less than seven of them residing in
our said Province, =Wee do= hereby give ... unto you ... full Power ...
to choose as many Persons out of the Principal Freeholders, Inhabitants
thereof, as will make up the full Number of our said Council to be
seven, and no more....
=And wee= do hereby give ... you full Power ... with the advice and
consent of our said Council from time to time, as need shall require,
to summon and call General Assemblys of the said Freeholders and
Planters within your Government, in manner and form according to the
usage of our Province of New Hampshire:
=Wee do= hereby Declare that the Persons so elected and qualified shall
be called and Deemed the General Assembly of our said Province ... and
that you ... with the consent of our said Council and Assembly, or the
major part of them respectively, shall have full Power ... to make,
Constitute, and ordain Laws, Statutes, and Ordinances, for the Publick
Peace, Welfare, and good Government of our said Province ... and for
the Benefit of us our Heirs and Successors,--which said Laws ... are
not to be repugnant, but, as near as may be, agreeable to the laws ...
of this our Kingdom of Great Britain.
=Provided that= all such Statutes and Ordinances, of whatever nature
and Duration soever, be, within three months ... after the making
thereof, transmitted unto us ... for our approbation or Disallowance
[as also Duplicates of the same by the next conveyance]; and in case
any or all of the said Laws ..., not before confirmed by us, shall
at any time be disallowed ... and so signified by us our Heirs or
Successors ... unto you ... or to the Commander-in-Chief of our said
Province for the time being, then such and so many of the said Laws ...
shall from thence cease, Determine, and become utterly void....
=And= to the end that nothing may be passed or done by our said Council
or Assembly to the Prejudice of us, our Heirs and Successors, We will
and ordain that you ... shall have ... a negative Voice in the making
and Passing of all Laws and Statutes and ordinances ... =and= you
shall and may ... from time to time, as you shall judge it necessary,
adjourn, Prorogue, and Dissolve all General Assemblies as aforesaid....
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