Section IX Choice of Governor and Deputy Governor, and Sixteen Committees.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That before the Five and twentieth day of May now next comeing any Thirteen of them the said persons herein before named shall sum[m]on and call together a General Court of all the said Subscribers and of all and every other person and persons who shall then have any Share or Interest in the said Joint Stock who shall and may quietly and freely assemble themselves and meet together att the time and place so appointed and then and there att their will and pleasure name choose and elect one fit person who shall have subscribed One thousand pounds or upwards to the said Joynt Stock and actually paid in one fourth part thereof as aforesaid to be Governor of the said Company And one other fitt person in like manner who shall have subscribed the Sum of One thousand pounds to the said Joynt Stock and actually paid in one fourth part thereof as aforesaid to be Deputy Governor of the said Company And also Sixteen other fitt persons in like manner each of them having severally subscribed the sum of Five hundred pounds or upwards to the said Joynt Stock and severally paid in one fourth part thereof as aforesaid to be Co[m]mittees of the said Company the said Governor Deputy Governor and Co[m]mittees to continue in their respective Offices and Places until the Twentieth day of October which shall be in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety and foure.