of th« sd mayor and aldermen as fully and freely as any other ihe like officers in or of any of the like corporations in our realm of England lawfully may or ought to do, and the sM office of mayor shall from thenceforth forever be annual, and that the sd mayor, alder'n, and common council shall from henceforth forever have frank and free election of the sd mayor, to be chosen yearly out of the number of the sd aldermen, and that by the votes of the greatest number of the said freeholders and inhabitants of the said corporation* and all other the said officers and ministers out of the rest of the number of the sd ffreeholders and inhabitants by ye greater number of the sd mayor, aldermen, and common council, and when and so often as any of the affiares'd aldermen and common council who are hereby nominated and created for their limetime, or untill they or any of them shall be lawfully removed^ or vollenta-^ rily remove themselves from the sd corporation, ye said aldermen to be elected and chosen out of the number of the sd common council, and the number of the common council to be chosen and made up out of the freemen of the sd corporation by the grater vote of the sd freeholders and inhabitants thereof, and that always within fourteen days after the death or removal of any of them as afors'd. And farther our will and pleasure is that the first Monday in the month of May, yearly, shall be forever the day of election of the sd mayor and all other the sd officers and ministers which shall yearly succeed in the sd borough, unless the sd mayor for the time being happen to die or be lawfully remov'd within the year, in which case our pleasure is that the afores'd ffreeholders and inhabitants shall within fourteen days after the death or removil of any such mayor for the time being, as afores'd, proceed to election to some other of the sd aldermen to supply the place of the sd mayor, being void as afores'd, and that Coll.