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The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina.

²³ §.24. No Man shall be capable of having a Court-Leet or Leet-Men,
but a Proprietor, Landgrave, Cassique, or Lord of a Mannor.

§. 25. Whoever shall voluntarily Enter himself a Leet-man in the Regi-
stry of the County Court, shall be a Leet-man.

²⁵ §. 26. Whoever is Lord of Leet-men, shall upon the Marriage of a Leet-
man or Leet-woman of his, give them ten Acres of Land for their
Lives, they paying to him therefore not more than one eighth part
of all the yearly Produce and Growth of the said ten Acres.

²⁶ §.27. No Landgrave or Cassique shall be Tried for any Criminal Cause,
in any but the Chief Justice's Court, and that by a Jury of his Peers. ^{drawn by Lott out of ye Nobility after ye manner of other Jurys.}

²⁷ §.28. There shall be eight Supream Courts. The first called The Palatine's
Court, consisting of the Palatine, and the other seven Proprietors.
The other seven Courts of the other seven great Officers, shall
consist each of them of a proprietor, and six Councellors added to him.
Under each of these latter seven Courts shall be a Colledge of twelve
Assistants. The twelve Assistants of the several Colledges shall be cho-
sen; two out of the Landgraves, Cassiques, or eldest Sons of pro-
prietors; by the Palatine's Court; two out of the Landgraves, by the
Landgraves Chamber; two out of the Cassiques, by the Cassiques Cham-
ber; four more of the twelve shall be chosen by the Commons Cham-
ber, out of such as have been, or are Members of Parliament, Sheriffs,
or Justices of the County Court, or the younger Sons of proprietors, or
eldest Sons of Landgraves or Cassiques; te two other shall be cho-
sen by the Palatine's Court, out of the same sort of Persons out of
which the Commons Chamber is to chuse.

²⁸ §.29. Out of these Colledges shall be chosen at first by the Palatine's
Court, six Councellors, to be joyned with each proprietor in his Court;
of which six one shall be one of those who were chosen into any of the
Colledges by the Palatine's Court, out of the Landgraves, Cassiques, or el-
dest Sons of proprietors, one out of those who were chosen by the
Landgraves Chamber, and one out of those who were chosen by the
Cassiques Chamber, two out of those who were chosen by the Commons
Chamber, and one out of the those who were chosen by the Palatine's
Court, out of the proprietors younger Sons, or eldest Sons of Landgraves,
Cassiques, or Commons, Qualified as aforesaid.

²⁹ §.30. When it shall happen that any Councellor dyes or is removed, and
thereby there is a Vacancy, he that hath been longest a Councellor in