This Board when full consists of Twelve Members who are also appointed by the Crown during Will & Pleasure; any three of whom make a Quorum. The Province enjoys a Legislative Body, which consists of the Governor as the King's Representative; the Council in the place of the House of

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Lords, and the Representatives of the People, who are chosen as in England:

Of these the City of

--All the other Counties (except the New Counties of Charlotte & Gloucester represented) send Two. -- The Borough of Westchester, the Township of Schenectady and yet not

New York sends four. as

the three Manors of Rensselaerwyck, Livingston and Cortlandt each send one; in the

whole forming a Body of Thirty one Representatives.

The Governor by his Commission is authorized to convene them with the advice of the Council and adjourn, prorogue or dissolve the General Assembly as he shall judge necessary. This Body has not power to make any Laws repugnant to the Laws and Statutes of Great Britain. All Laws proposed to be made by this Provincial Legislature, pass thro' each of the Houses' of Council and Assembly, as Bills do thro' the House of Commons and House of Lords in England and the Governor has a Negative voice in the making and passing of all such Laws. Every Law so

passed is to be transmitted to His Majesty under the Great Seal of the Province, within Three months or sooner after the making thereof and a Duplicate by the next conveyance, in order to be approved or disallowed by his Majesty;