m before the
signory, in whose presence the outward boxes being opened, they take
out the inner boxes, whereof the affirmative is white, and the negative
green, and pour the white in the bowl N on the right hand, which is
white also, and the green into the bowl N on the left, which is also
green. These bowls or basins (better represented at the lower end of the
figure by h, i) being upon this occasion set before the tables of the
secretaries at the upper end N, N, the white on the right hand, and the
green on the left, the secretaries on each side number the balls, by
which, if they find that the affirmatives amount not to above one-half,
they write not the name that was balloted, but if they amount to above
one-half, they write it, adding the number of above half the suffrages
to which it attained. The first name being written, or laid aside, the
next that is put is BB named to be strategus in the second order; the
third CC, named to be strategus in the third order; the fourth DD, named
to be strategus in the fourth order and he of these four competitors
that has most above half in the affirmative, is the magistrate; or if
none of them attain to above half, the nomination for that magistracy
is to be repeated by such new electors as shall be chosen at the next
ballot. And so, as is exemplified in the first magistracy, proceeds the
ballot of the rest; first in the first, then in the second, and so in
the third and fourth orders.

Now whereas it may happen that AA, for example, being named strategus in
the first order, may also be named to the same or some one or more
other magistracies in one or more of the other orders; his name is
first balloted where it is first written, that is to the more worthy
magistracy, whereof if he misses, he is balloted as it comes in course
for the next, and so for the rest, if he misses of that, as often as he
is named.

And because to be named twice, or oftener, whether to the same or some
other magistracy, is the stronger recommendation, the note must not fail
to be given upon the name, at the proposition in this manner: AA named
to be strategus in the first, and in the second order, or AA named to be
strategus in the first and the third, in the first and the fourth, etc.
But if he be named to the same magistracy in the first, second, third,
and fourth orders, he can have no competitor; wherefore attaining to
above half the suffrages, he is the magistrate. Or thus: AA named to be
strat