entlemen of the Academy, who, finding anything in them material,
will find matter of discourse; or if they happen upon a business that
requires privacy, return it with a note upon it to a provost. And the
provosts by the secretaries attending shall cause such notes out of
discourses or letters to be taken as they please, to the end that they
may propose, as occasion serves, what any two of them shall think fit
out of their notes so taken to their respective councils; to the end
that not only the ear of the commonwealth be open to all, but that men
of such education being in her eve, she may upon emergent elections or
occasions be always provided of her choice of fit persons.

"Every council being adorned with a state for the signory, shall
be attended by two secretaries, two doorkeepers, and two
messengers-in-ordinary, and have power to command more upon emergencies,
as occasion requires. And the Academy shall be attended with two
secretaries, two messengers, and two doorkeepers; this with the other
councils being provided with their further conveniences at the charge of
the State.

"But whereas it is incident to commonwealths, upon emergencies requiring
extraordinary speed or secrecy, either through their natural delays or
unnatural haste, to incur equal danger, while holding to the slow pace
of their orders, they come not in time to defend themselves from some
sudden blow; or breaking them for the greater speed, they but haste to
their own destruction; if the Senate shall at any time make election
of nine knights-extraordinary, to be added to the Council of War, as a
juncta for the term of three months, the Council of War with the juncta
so added, is for the term of the same Dictator of Oceana, having power
to levy men and money, to make war and peace, as also to enact laws,
which shall be good for the space of one year (if they be not sooner
repealed by the Senate and the people) and for no longer time,
except they be confirmed by the Senate and the people. And the whole
administration of the commonwealth for the term of the said three months
shall be in the Dictator, provided that the Dictator shall have no power
to do anything that tends not to his proper end and institution, but all
to the preservation of the commonwealth as it is established, and for
the sudden restitution of the same to the natural channel and common
course of government. And all acts, orders, decrees, or laws of the
Council of War with the jun