Corpus Bilingüe Tomo I Vol. 1 - Archivo Abierto Institucional de la ...

LUIS GRAU
ffourty Persons, or the greater Number of them, shall and may, from time to
time, and at any time hereafter, at their owne Will and Pleasure, according to
the Laws, Ordinances, and Orders of or by them, or by the greater Part of them,
hereafter in Manner and forme in these Presents mentioned, to be agreed upon,
to elect and choose amongst themselves one of the said ffourty Persons for the
Time being, to be President of the said Councill, which President soe elected and
chosen, Wee will, shall continue and be President of the said Councill for so long
a Time as by the Orders of the said Councill, from time to time to be made, as
hereafter is mentioned, shall be thought fitt, and no longer; unto which President,
or in his Absence, to any such Person as by the Order of the said Councill shall
be thereunto appointed, Wee do give Authority to give Order for the warning of
the said Council, and summoning the Company to their Meetings. 40 And our Will
and Pleasure is, that from time to time, when and so often as any of the Councill 41
shall happen to decease, or to be removed from being of the said Councell, that
then, and so often, the Survivors of them the 42 said Councill, and no other, or the
greater Number of them, who then shall be from time to time left and remaininge,
and who shall, or the greater Number of which that shall be assembled at a public
Court or Meeting to be held for the said Company, shall elect and choose one or
more other Person or Persons to be of the said Councill, and which from time to
time shall be of the said Councill, so that the Number of ffourty Persons of the
said Councill may from time to time be supplied: 43 Provided always that as well
the Persons herein named to be of the said Councill, as every other Councellor
hereafter to be elected, shall be presented to the Lord Chancellor of England,
or to the Lord High Treasurer of England, or to the Lord Chamberlaine of the
Household of Us, our Heires and Successors for the Time being, to take his and
their Oath and Oathes of a Councellor and Councellors to Us, our Heirs and Successors,
for the said Company and Collonye in New-England. And further, Wee
will and grant by these Presents, for Us, our Heires and Successors, unto the said
Councill and their Successors, that they and their Successors shall have and enjoy
for ever a Common Seale, to be engraven according to their Discretions; 44 and
that it shall be lawfull for them to appoint whatever 45 Seale or Seales, they shall
think most meete and necessary, either for their Use, as they are one united Body
40. Brigham inicia aquí un nuevo párrafo.
41. En Brigham “the said council”.
42. En Brigham “of the”.
43. Brigham inicia aquí un nuevo párrafo.
44. Brigham inicia aquí un nuevo párrafo.
45. En Brigham “what other”.
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