The government established is a monarchicall forme and (under his Majestie) successive in my Lord and his issue, assisted by a councell of select men chosen from among the Master Adventorors and a parl[i]am[en]t to be called when occasion shall require all the freeholders.

Bee it Enacted by the Lord Propr wth the advise & consent of the Counsell & Burgesses of this province now assembled That this prnt assembly during the continuance thereof bee held by way of Upper & Lower howse to sitt in two distinct roomes a part, for the more convenient dispatch of the busines therein to bee consulted of. …And all Bills that shall bee passed by the sd Two howses of the maior part of both of them, & Enacted or Ordered by the Gour shall bee Lawes of the province after publicon thereof, under the hand of the Gour & the Great Seale of the sd Province as fully to all effects in Law as if they were advised & assented unto by all the ffreemen of the province personally.