rty on
the left. And the cause being thus heard, the tribunes shall put
the question to the tribe with a white, a black, and a red box (or
non-sincere), whether guilty or not guilty. And if the suffrage being
taken, the major vote be in the non-sincere, the cause shall be reheard
upon the next juridicial day following, and put to the question in the
same manner. If the major vote comes the second time in the non-sincere,
the cause shall be heard again upon the third day; but at the third
hearing the question shall be put without the non-sincere. Upon the
first of the three days in which the major vote comes in the white box,
the party accused is absolved; and upon the first of them in which
it comes in the black box, the party accused is condemned. The party
accused being condemned, the tribunes (if the case be criminal) shall
put with the white and the black box these questions, or such of them
as, regard had to the case, they shall conceive most proper:

1. Whether he shall have a writ of ease;
2. Whether he shall be fined so much or so much;
3. Whether he shall be confiscated;
4. Whether he shall be rendered incapable of magistracy;
5. Whether he shall be banished;
6. Whether he shall be put to death.

"These, or any three of these questions, whether simple or such as shall
be thought fitly mixed, being put by the tribunes, that which has most
above half the votes in the black box is the sentence of the people,
which the troop of the third class is to see executed accordingly.

"But whereas by the constitution of this commonwealth it may appear that
neither the propositions of the Senate nor the judicature of the people
will be so frequent as to hold the prerogative in continual employment,
the Senate, a main part of whose office it is to teach and instruct
the people, shall duly (if they have no greater affairs to divert
them) cause an oration to be made to the prerogative by some knight or
magistrate of the Senate, to be chosen out of the ablest men, and from
time to time appointed by the orator of the house, in the great hall of
the Pantheon, while the Parliament resides in the town, or in some grove
or sweet place in the field, while the Parliament for the heat of
the year shall reside in the country, upon every Tuesday, morning or
afternoon.

"And the orator appointed for the time to this office shall first repeat
the orders of the commonwealth with all possible brevity; and then,
making choice of on