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for chusing Church-Wardens.
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IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the rector or minister of the said parish of Saint Thomas, and he is hereby required, within, one month after the said twenty fourth day of March one thousand seven hundred and forty nine, upon previous notice given by the said rector in writing ten days before the time thereby appointed for the meeting, to convene the inhabitants of the said parish of Saint Thomas to meet at some convenient place within the said parish; and that it shall and may be lawful for the said rector, and the majority of the inhabitants of the said parish then present, to chuse two persons out of the said inhabitants for church-wardens of the said parish; which two persons, qualifying themselves according to law, shall be church wardens of the said parish from the time of such election and qualifying for one year from the time of such election, and until the Easter next after the end of that year; and that the said rector, church-wardens, and parishioners of the said parish may every year after, at the usual time appointed for chusing church-wardens, elect two church-wardens and other officers for the said parish.
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