Thomas' Almanack for 1784

for that purpose on the first Monday of April annually; the following is the number for each county Suffolk 6, Essex 6, Middlesex 5, Hampshire 4, Plymouth 3, Barnstable I, Bristol 3, York 2, Dukes County and Nantucket I, Worcester 5, Cumberland I, Lincoln I, and Berkshire2. Each Senator to be possessed of an estate of at least 6ool. value; and not less than 16 members to constitute a quorum.- Every town having 150 ratable polls may elect one Representative; a town containing 375 may elect two;, and if 600 they may elect three; after which 225 ratable polls is to be the mean increasing number for every additional Representative.- They are to be chosen annually in May, ten days at least before the last Wednesday in said month, each to have been one year an inhabitant of, and seized in his own right of a freehold to the value of one hundred pounds within the town he shall be chosen to represent, or any ratable estate to the value of three hundred pounds.- Not less than sixty members to constitute a quorum; and no member can be arrested during his going into, or returning from, or his attending the General Court.- The Governor and Lieutenant Governor to be chosen annually, and to be of the Christian Religion, to have been inhabitants of the Commonwealth seven years and to be seized in their own right of a freehold of 1000l.? value.- The several towns are to give in their votes on the first. Monday in April, when every male person, being twenty-one years of age and being otherwise qualified, has a right to vote.- The choice to be declared and published on the last Wednesday in May.- A Council of nine (besides the Lieutenant-Governor) for advising the Governor are also to be chosen on the said last Wednesday in May, by the joint ballot of the Senators and Representatives; and not more than two to be chosen out of any one district.- The Secretary, Treasurer, Commissary-Genera1, Notaries Publick, and Naval Officers to be chosen annually by joint ballot of the Senators and representatives: No person to be eligible for the office of Treasurer more than five years.- All Commissions of Justices of the Peace to expire and become void in seven years after their respective dates.- The Delegates in Congress to be chosen in the month of June annually to serve for one year from the first Monday in November following.- No person