And whereas the said original charter similarly provided for the election in each and every year between the first and last day of November of seven of the Company to be a Committee of the Company for one whole year then next ensuing, and required the Governor or the Deputy-Governor of the Company for the time being to be present at each, such election, and required the persons so elected to be a Committee of the Company, before being admitted to execute their office to take a corporal oath that they and every of them should well and faithfully perform their office of Committee. And whereas the said original charter similarly provided for the election of a Governor or a Deputy-Governor of the Company in the event of the Governor or Deputy-Governor for the time being, at any time within one year after being elected and sworn to the office of Governor or Deputy-Governor, dying or being removed from his office (which Governor or Deputy-Governor not demeaning himself well in his office was to be removeable at the pleasure of the rest of the Company or the greater part of them present at a general court), and provided that the Governor or Deputy-Governor so elected should hold office for the residue of the said year, and before being admitted to execute his office should take a corporal oath as aforesaid: And whereas the said original charter similarly provided in the event of any person or persons of the Committee of the Company for the time being within one year after being elected and sworn to such office dying or being removed from his or their office (which Committee not demeaning themselves well in their said office were to be removeable at the pleasure of the Governor and Company or the greater part of them, whereof the Governor for the time being, or his deputy should be one), for the election of one or more of the Company to be of the Committee in the place of him or them dying or being removed as aforesaid, and the said original charter provided that the person or persons so elected should hold office for the residue of the said year, and before being admitted to execute the office of Committee should take a corporal oath as aforesaid, and the Governor or the Deputy-Governor for the time being was required to be present at each such election. And whereas by the said original charter the Governor and Company were empowered to assemble themselves and hold court for the Company and the affairs thereof, and it was thereby declared that it should be lawful for them and the greater part of them present at such assembly, whereof the Governor or his Deputy for the time being should be one, to make, ordain, and constitute such and so many laws, constitutions, orders, and ordinances as to them or the greater part of them being there present should seem necessary and convenient for the good government of the Company, and at their pleasure to revoke and alter the same or any of them as the occasion should require: