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on vacancy, any 5 shall by ballot in 2 months elect another.
and also from time to time such fit persons, above the number herein, as they think necessary.
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II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That upon the death of any person or persons, whose name or names is or are herein particularly before mentioned, whereby a vacancy of a governor shall happen, that then the governors of the said hospital, or any five of them, shall by ballot within two kalendar months after the death of such person or persons respectively elect some other fit person to be a governor in the place or stead of every such person so dying; and as often as any vacancy shall happen in the place of any of the person or persons hereafter to be elected, some other person or persons shall in like manner be elected to succeed therein; and that the governors of the said hospital, or any five of them, may from time to time elect by ballot such fit person or persons, over and above the precise number herein before mentioned, to be governor or governors of the said hospital, as they shall think likely to promote and encourage the charitble designs of the said Mary Mercer; which said person or persons, from time to time elected, shall, to all intents and purposes be deemed and taken to be governors of the said hospital, as if their names were herein particularly inserted.
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