ipline the youth so often as they receive orders for the same from
the Council of War) are to deliver the second essay, or so many of them
as shall be commanded, to the conductors, who shall present them to the
lord strategus at the time and place appointed by his Excellency to be
the general rendezvous of Oceana, where the Council of War shall have
the accommodation of horses and arms for his men in readiness; and the
lord strategus having armed, mounted, and distributed them, whether
according to the recommendation of their prize arms, or otherwise,
shall lead them away to his shipping, being also ready and provided with
victuals, ammunition, artillery, and all other necessaries; commanding
them, and disposing of the whole conduct of the war by his sole power
and authority. And this is the third essay of the stratiots, which being
shipped, or marched out of their tribes, the lord lieutenants shall
re-elect the second essay out of the remaining part of the first, and
the Senate another strategus.

"If any veteran or veterans of this nation, the term of whose youth or
militia is expired, having a desire to be entertained in the further
service of the commonwealth, shall present him or themselves at the
rendezvous of Oceana to the strategus, it is in his power to take on
such and so many of them as shall be agreed by the polemarchs, and to
send back an equal number of the stratiots.

"And for the better managing of the proper forces of this nation, the
lord strategus, by appointment of the Council of War, and out of such
levies as they shall have made in either or both of the provinces to
that end, shall receive auxiliaries by sea or elsewhere at some certain
place, not exceeding his proper arms in number.

"And whosoever shall refuse any one of his three essays, except upon
cause shown, he be dispensed withal by the phylarch, or, if the phylarch
be not assembled, by the censors of his tribe, shall be deemed a helot
or public servant, shall pay a fifth part of his yearly revenue,
besides all other taxes, to the commonwealth for his protection, and be
incapable of bearing any magistracy except such as is proper to the law.
Nevertheless if a man has but two sons, the lord lieutenant shall not
suffer above one of them to come to the Urn at one election of the
second essay, and though he has above two sons, there shall not come
above half the brothers at one election; and if a man has but one son,
he shall not come to the