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The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina.

shall not chuse a Landgrave to be a Proprietor, before the second bien-
nial Parliament after the Vacancy; then the next biennial Parliament
but one after such Vacancy, shall have power to chuse any Landgrave
to be Proprietor.

§. 7. Whosoever after the Year One thousand seven hundred, either by
Inheritance or Choice, shall succeed any Proprietor in his Proprietorship,
and Signiores thereunto belonging, shall be obliged to take the Name
and Arms of that Proprietor whom he succeeds; which from thenceforth
shall be the Name and Arms of his Family and their Posterity.

§. 8. {This whole to bee left out as contrary to the [?]}
Whatsoever Landgrave or Cassique shall any way come to be a Pro-
prietor, shall take the Signiories annexed to the said Proprietorship; but
his former Dignity, with the Baronies annexed, shall devolve into the
Hands of the Lords Proprietors.

§.9. ^8. There shall be just as many Landgraves as there are Counties, and
twice as many Cassiques, and no more. These shall be the heredi-
tary Nobility of the Province, and by right of their Dignity be Mem-
bers of Parliament. Each Landgrave shall have four Baronies, and each
Cassique two Baronies, hereditarily and unalterably annexed to, and settled
upon the said Dignity.

§.10. ⁹ The first Landgraves and Cassiques of the twelve first Counties to be
Planted, shall be nominated thus; that is to say, of the twelve Land-
graves the Lords Proprietors shall each of them seperately for himself,
nominate and chuse one; and the remaining four Landgraves of the
first twelve, shall be nominated and chosen by the Palatine's Court. In
like manner of the twenty four first Cassiques, each Proprietor for him-
self shall nominate and chuse two, and the remaining eight shall be no-
minated and chosen by the Palatine's Court; and when the twelve first
Counties shall be Planted, the Lords Proprietors shall again in the same
manner nominate and chuse twelve more Landgraves, and twenty four
Cassiques for the twelve next Counties to be Planted; that is to say,
two Thirds of each number by the single nomination of each Propri-
etor for himself, and the remaining one Third by the joynt Election
of the Palatine's Court, and so proceed in the same manner till the whole
Province of Carolina be Set out and Planted, according to the Proporti-
ons in these FUNDAMENTAL CONSTITUTIONS.

§.11. ¹⁰ Any Landgrave or Cassique at any time before the Year One thou-
sand seven hundred and one, shall have power to Alienate, Sell, or
Make over to any other person, his Dignity, with the Baronies thereunto
belonging, all intirely together. But after the Year One thousand seven