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Vestryman, and the other persons chosen and Qualified as
aforesaid or the Majority of them at any Time after the expira
=tion of twenty Days after such election shall elect and choose
another Freeholder instead of him so refusing or neglecting
and such Person so elected after being qualified in manner
aforesaid shall be held to be a legal Vestryman to all intents
and Purposes.

And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid; That the
Vestry of each respective Parish or a Majority of them shall and are
hereby directed within one Month after being elected and Qualified
as aforesaid to elect and choose out of the said Vestry Two persons
to execute the Office of Church Wardens. And every Vestry shall
and are hereby required at all Times thereafter within Forty Days
after Easter Monday Yearly to elect and Choose out of the Vestry Two
Persons to Execute the said Office and if the Persons elected Church
Wardens as aforesaid by Virtue of this Act or either of them
shall refuse to Execute the said Office he or they so refusing
shall forfeit and pay the sum of Forty Shillings Proclamation
Money to be recovered and applied as herein after directed, And in
such case the Vestry shall Proceed to Choose in the room of him
or them so refusing another or other Church Warden or Church
Wardens out of the said Vestrymen Provided that no Person
whatsoever shall be obliged to serve as Church Warden in any
Parish longer than one year.

And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesd
that the Church Wardens of every Parish shall Purchase at
the Expence of the same well bound Books for keeping therein
a Journal of all Proceedings of the Vestry in which shall be
fairly stated Accounts of all such Money as they from [From?] Time
to Time shall receive in Virtue of their office and all disbursements
made on Account of the Parish and within Ninety Days after
their Wardenship shall expire set up in the Court house of
their County on a Court Day Copies of such accounts and
Continue the same during the siting of the Court for Inspection
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