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. Caleb Heathcott, the present mayor, shall immediately, before he take upon him the said office and place, take the oaths lately appointed by act of parliament instead of the oaths of alliegeance and supremacy, and that the same be administered to him in the presence of our sd cap'n gene'l and gover'r in chief of our sd province of N. York, and the s'd Coll. Caleb Heathcott having taken ye said oaths, shall cause the same to be given in his presence as well to such persons as ye sd Coll. Caleb Heathcott shall at any time during his mayoralty leave to be his deputy in his absence as afores'd, as to the aldermen and common council created as afores'd, and to the recorder and all such other officers and ministers as shall be chosen in the said borough for the better government of the same, and that before they or any of them shall take upon them to execute any office or place by virtue of this our royal charter and pattent, and after the end of the mayoralty of the sd Coll.