II. BE it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, that
in every county within this commonwealth, there shall be chosen
annually, by the electors qualified to vote for Delegates, three of
the most honest and able men of their county, to be called the
Aldermen of the county; and that the election of the said Aldermen
shall be held at the same time and place, before the same persons,
and notified and conducted in the same manner as by law is directed
for the annual election of Delegates for the county.
SECT. III. THE person before whom such election is holden shall
certify to the court of the said county the names of the Aldermen
chosen, in order that the same may be entered of record, and shall
give notice of their election to the said Aldermen within a fortnight
after such election.
SECT. IV. THE said Aldermen on the first Monday in October, if
it be fair, and if not, then on the next fair day, excluding Sunday,
shall meet at the court-house of their county, and proceed to divide
their said county into hundreds, bounding the same by water courses,
mountains, or limits, to be run and marked, if they think necessary,
by the county surveyor, and at the county expence, regulating the
size of the said hundreds, according to the best of their discretion,
so as that they may contain a convenient number of children to make
up a school, and be of such convenient size that all the children
within each hundred may daily attend the school to be established
therein, distinguishing each hundred by a particular name; which
division, with the names of the several hundreds, shall be returned
to the court of the county and be entered of record, and shall remain
unaltered until the increase or decrease of inhabitants shall render
an alteration necessary, in the opinion of any succeeding Aldermen,
and also in the opinion of the court of the county.
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