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4 general assemblies in a year.
Make by laws, &c.
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XII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said governors shall meet and assemble together in order to hold a general court of assembly four times in every year on the following days (viz:) on every Monday immediately following the days hereafter-mensioned: (that is to say) every twenty fourth day June, twenty ninth day of September, twenty fifth day of December, and twenty fifth day of March, or oftner, if the said governors, or any fifteen or more of them, shall see occasion; and that they shall have power and authority to continue the said general courts of assembly by adjournment from time to time, as they shall judge expedient; in which said general courts of assembly, fifteen at least of the said governors being present, they shall have power to appoint and remove officers, to fix, advance, or diminish, the salaries of their officers, and to prescribe and ascertain the several duties of such officers, and also to make, ordain, and establish, such rules, ordinances, orders, by-laws, and regulations; of the said governors in their said general court of assembly, fifteen at least being present, shall judge necessary and expedient for the good of the said work-house, regulating the officers, supporting, maintaining, and ordering of the poor, and other persons to be employed therein, providing for and educating the foundling children, and punishing of vagobonds, so as the same be consonant to reason, and not contrary to the laws and statutes of this realm.
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