It has been found necessary and has been approved that the current [dijkgraaf] and the [dijkgraaf] to be elected will both be [dijkgraaf] for 2 years to come. After those 2 years, the abdicating [dijkgraaf] will become senior [heemraad], the junior [heemraad] becoming [dijkgraaf]; a new junior [heemraad] will have to be elected again. The new [dijkgraaf] will in his turn be appointed for 2 consecutive years. The new junior [heemraad] to be elected by the [dijkgraaf], [heemraden], and assembly of inheritors, will also after 2 years succeed the [dijkgraaf] in the aforementioned manner, this in order for each one to fulfil his function in his quality to the best benefit of the mark.