r consisting of the elders; and partly military, or
consisting of the youth. The civil part of the provincial orb is
directed by--

The twenty-eighth order, "Whereby the council of a province being
constituted of twelve knights, divided by four into three regions (for
their term and revolution conformable to the Parliament), is perpetuated
by the annual election at the tropic of four knights (being triennial
magistrates) out of the region of the Senate whose term expires; and
of one knight out of the same region to be strategus or general of the
province, which magistracy is annual. The strategus or magistrate thus
chosen shall be as well president of the provincial council with power
to propose to the same, as general of the army. The council for the
rest shall elect weekly provosts, having any two of them also right
to propose after the manner of the senatorian councils of Oceana. And
whereas all provincial councils are members of the Council of State,
they may and ought to keep diligent correspondence with the same, which
is to be done after this manner: Any opinion or opinions legitimately
proposed and debated at a provincial council, being thereupon signed
by the strategus or any two of the provosts, may be transmitted to the
Council of State in Oceana; and the Council of State proceeding upon
the same in their natural course (whether by their own power, if it be
a matter within their instructions; or by authority of the Senate
thereupon consulted, if it be a matter of state which is not in their
instructions; or by authority of the Senate and command of the people,
if it be a matter of law, as for the levies of men or money upon common
use and safety) shall return such answers, advice, or orders as in any
of the ways mentioned shall be determined upon the case.

"The provincial councils of Marpesia and Panopea respectively shall take
special care that the agrarian laws, as also all other laws that be
or shall from time to time be enacted by the Parliament of Oceana, for
either of them, be duly put in execution; they shall manage and receive
the customs of either nation for the shipping of Oceana, being the
common guard; they shall have a care that moderate and sufficient
pay upon the respective province be duly raised for the support and
maintenance of the officers and soldiers, or army of the same, in the
most effectual, constant, and convenient way; they shall receive
the regalia, or public revenues of those na