of electors being made, are conducted by a secretary,
with a copy of the list to be chosen, out of the Senate, and into a
committee or council-chamber, being neither suffered by the way, nor in
their room (till the ballot be ended), to have conference with any but
themselves; wherefore the secretary, having given them their oath that
they shall make election according to the law and their conscience,
delivers them the list, and seats himself at the lower end of the table
with his pen and paper, while another secretary keeps the door.

By such time as the first order of electors are thus seated, the second
order of electors is drawn, who, with a second copy of the same list,
are conducted into another committee-chamber, by other secretaries
performing the same office with the former.

The like exactly is done by the third and by the fourth orders (or
hands, as the Venetians call them) of electors, by which means you have
the four-and-twenty electors divided according to the four copies of
the same list, by six, into four hands or orders; and every one of these
orders names one competitor to every magistracy in the list; that is to
say, the first elector names to the first magistracy, the second elector
to the second magistracy, and so forth. But though the electors, as has
been shown, are chosen by mere lot, yet the competitors by them named
are not chosen by any lot, but by the suffrage of the whole order for
example, the first elector in the first order proposes a name to
be strategus, which name is balloted by himself and the other five
electors, and if the name so balloted attain not to above half the
suffrages, it is laid aside, and the first elector names another to the
same magistracy and so in case this also fails, another, till one he has
named, whether it be himself, or some other, has attained to above half
the suffrages in the affirmative; and the name so attaining to above
half the suffrages in the affirmative is written to the first magistracy
in the list by the secretary which being done, the second elector of the
first order, names to 'the second magistracy till one of his nomination
be chosen to the same. The like is done by the rest of the electors of
the first order, till one competitor be chosen, and written to every
magistracy in their list. Now the second, third, and fourth orders of
electors doing exactly after the same manner, it comes to pass that one
competitor to every magistracy being chosen i