tions, out of which every
councillor shall have for his term, and to his proper use, the sum of
L500 per annum, and the strategus L500 as president, beside his pay as
general, which shall be L1,000, the reminder to go to the use of the
knights and deputies of the respective provinces, to be paid, if it
will reach, according to the rates of Oceana; if not, by an equal
distribution, respectively, or the overplus, if there be any, to be
returned to the Treasury of Oceana. They shall manage the lands (if
there be any such held in either of the provinces by the commonwealth
of Oceana, in dominion) and return the rents into the Exchequer. If the
commonwealth comes to be possessed of richer provinces, the pay of
the general or strategus, and of the councils, may be respectively
increased. The people for the rest shall elect their own magistrates,
and be governed by their own laws, having power also to appeal from
their native or provincial magistrates, if they please, to the people of
Oceana. And whereas there may be such as receiving injury, are not
able to prosecute their appeals at so great a distance, eight
sergeants-at-law, being sworn by the commissioners of the seal, shall
be sent by four into each province once in two years; who, dividing
the same by circuits, shall hear such causes, and having gathered and
introduced them, shall return to the several appellants, gratis, the
determinations and decrees of the people in their several cases.

"The term of a knight in a provincial orb, as to domestic magistracies,
shall be esteemed a vacation, and no bar to present election to any
other honor, his provincial magistracy being expired.

"The quorum of a provincial council, as also of every other council
or assembly in Oceana, shall in time of health consist of two parts in
three of the whole number proper to that council or assembly; and in a
time of sickness, of one part in three; but of the Senate there can be
no quorum without three of the signory, nor of a council without two of
the provosts."

The civil part of the provincial orb being declared by the foregoing
order, the military part of the same is constituted by--

The twenty-ninth order, "Whereby the stratiots of the third essay having
drawn the gold balls marked with the letter M, and being ten horse and
fifty foot in a tribe, that is to say, 500 horse and 2,500 foot in
all, the tribes shall be delivered by the respective conductors to
the provincial strategus