Section VII

In case of Death of Commissioners, Survivors may nominate others; Qualification.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for the supplying and continueing a competent Number of Commissioners in case of Death or any of their Refusall to act the surviving or other Commissioners or any Nine or more of them shall from time to time by Instrument in Writing under their respective Hands and Seales nominate and appoint any other Person or Persons within the severall Counties of Derby Leicester and Stafford or some or one of them having an Estate in Lands of One hundred Pounds per Annum soe as there may alwaies be a sufficient Number (videlicet) Twenty at the least of Commissioners in being for putting this Act in Execution which said Commissioner or Commissioners so nominated and appointed shall from thenceforth have like Power and Authority as the Commissioners named in this Act can or may have by virtue of this Act.