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parliament. Each landgrave shall have sour baronies, and each casliquetwo baronies, hereditarily and unalterably annexed to, and settled uponthe said dignity.

X.

The first landgraves and cafliques of the twelve first counties to beplanted, shall be nominated thus ; that is to fay, of the twelve land-graves, the lords proprietors shall each of them separately for himself,nominate and chuse one; and the remaining four landgraves of the firsttwelve, shall be nominated and chosen by the palatine’s court. In likemanner, of the twenty-four first cafliques, each proprietor for himselfshall nominate and chuse two, and the remaining eight shall be nomi-nated and chosen by the palatine’s court; and when the twelve firstcounties shall be planted, the lords proprietors shall again in the samemanner nominate and chuse twelve more landgraves, and twenty-fourcafliques for the twelve next counties to be planted; that is to fay, two-thirds of each number by the single nomination of each proprietor forhimself, and the remaining one-third by the joint election of the pala-tine’s court, and so proceed in the fame manner till the whole provinceof Carolina be set out and planted, according to the proportions in theseFundamental Constitutions.

XI.

Any landgrave or cafiique at any time before the year one thousandseven hundred and one, shall have power to alienate, sell, or make overto any other person, his dignity, with the baronies thereunto belonging,all intirely together. But after the year one thousand seven hundred, nolandgrave or caslique shall have power to alienate, fell, make over, or lettthe hereditary baronies of his dignity, or any part thereof, otherwise thanas in § xviii j but they shall all intirely, with the dignity thereunto be-longing, descend unto his heirs male ; and for want of heirs male, all. intirely and undivided, to the next heir general; and for want of suchheirs, shall devolve into the hands of the lords proprietors.

XII.

That the due number of landgraves and cafliques may be alwayskept up ; if, upon the devolution of any landgraveship or cafliqueship,the palatine’s court shall not settle the devolved dignity, with the baro-nies thereunto annexed, before the second biennial parliament after suchdevolution ; the next biennial parliament but one after such devolutionshall have power to make any one landgrave or caslique, in the room ofhim, who dying without heirs, his dignity and baronies devolved.

XIII.

No one person shall have more than one dignity, with the signioriesor baronies thereunto belonging. But whensoever it shall happen, thatany one, who is already proprietor, landgrave, or caslique, shall haveany of these dignities descend to him by inheritance, it shall be at hischoice to keep which of the dignities, with the lands annexed, he shalllike best; but shall leave the other, with the lands annexed, to be en-VOL. IV. X x x joyed