officer in the parish, in the hundred, or in the
tribe, be afterward chosen of the galaxy, it shall be lawful for him to
delegate his office in the parish, in the hundred, or in the tribe,
to any one of his own order being not already chosen into office. The
knights and deputies being chosen, shall be brought to the head of the
tribe by the lord high sheriff, who shall administer to them this oath:
'Ye shall well and truly observe and keep the orders and customs of this
commonwealth which the people have chosen.' And if any of them shall
refuse the oath, he shall be rejected, and that competitor which had
the most voices next shall be called in his place, who, if he takes the
oath, shall be entered in the list; but if he also refuses the oath, he
who had most voices next shall be called, and so till the number of
nine out of those competitors which had most voices be sworn knights and
deputies of the galaxy. (This clause, in regard to the late divisions,
and to the end that no violence be offered to any man's conscience,
to be of force but for the first three years only.) The knights of
the galaxy being elected and sworn, are to repair, by the Monday next
ensuing to the last of March, to the Pantheon or palace of justice,
situated in the metropolis of this commonwealth (except the Parliament,
by reason of a contagious sickness, or some other occasion, has
adjourned to another part of the nation), where they are to take their
places in the Senate, and continue in full power and commission as
senators for the full term of three years next ensuing the date of
their election. The deputies of the galaxy are to repair by the same day
(except as before excepted) to the halo situated in Emporium, where they
are to be listed of the prerogative tribe, or equal representative
of the people; and to continue in full power and commission as their
deputies for the full term of three years next ensuing their election.
But, forasmuch as the term of every magistracy or office in this
commonwealth requires an equal vacation, a knight or deputy of
the galaxy, having fulfilled his term of three years, shall not be
re-elected into the same galaxy or any other, till he has also fulfilled
his three years' vacation."

Whoever shall rightly consider the foregoing orders, will be as little
able to find how it is possible that a worshipful knight should declare
himself in ale and beef worthy to serve his country, as how my lord high
sheriff's hono