or general, at such a time and place, or
rendezvous, as he shall appoint by order and certificate of his
election, and the strategus having received the horse and foot
mentioned, which are the third classes of his provincial guard or army,
shall forthwith lead them away to Marpesia, where the army consists of
three classes, each class containing 3,000 men, whereof 500 are horse;
and receiving the new strategus with the third class, the old strategus
with the first class shall be dismissed by the provincial council. The
same method with the stratiots of the letter P, is to be observed for
the provincial orb of Panopea; and the commonwealth coming to acquire
new provinces, the Senate and the people may erect new orbs in like
manner, consisting of greater or less numbers, according as is required
by the respective occasion. If a stratiot has once served his term in a
provincial orb, and happens afterward to draw the letter of a province
at the election of the second essay, he may refuse his lot; and if he
refuses it, the censor of that urn shall cause the files balloting at
the same to make a halt; and if the stratiot produces the certificate of
his strategus or general, that he has served his time accordingly, the
censor throwing the ball that he drew into the urn again, and taking out
a blank, shall dismiss the youth, and cause the ballot to proceed."

To perfect the whole structure of this commonwealth, some directions are
given to the third essay, or army marching, in--

The thirtieth order. "'When thou goest to battle against thy enemies,
and seest horses and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not
afraid of them, for the Lord thy God is he that goes with thee to fight
for thee against thy enemies. And when thou dividest the spoil, it shall
be as a statute and an ordinance to thee, that as his part is that goes
down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarries by the stuff;
that is (as to the commonwealth of Oceana) the spoil takin of the enemy
(except clothes, arms, horses, ammunition, and victuals, to be divided
to the soldiery by the strategus and the polemarchs upon the place
according to their discretion) shall be delivered to four commissaries
of the spoils elected and sworn by the Council of War, which
commissaries shall be allowed shipping by the State, and convoys
according as occasion shall require by the strategus, to the end that
having a bill of lading signed by three or more of the polemarchs,