ing over and above the magistracies so divided
among them.

"Every Monday next ensuing the last of March, the knights, being 100
in all the tribes, take their places in the Senate. The knights, having
taken their places in the Senate, make the third region of the same, and
the house proceeds to the senatorian elections. Senatorian elections are
annual, biennial, or emergent.

"The annual are performed by the tropic.

"The tropic is a schedule consisting of two parts; the first by which
the senatorian magistrates are elected; and the second, by which the
senatorian councils are perpetuated.

"The first part is of this tenor:

The lord strategus,
The lord orator,
The first censor,
The second censor,

"Annual magistrates and therefore such as may be elected out of any
region; the term of every region having at the tropic one year at the
least unexpired.

The third commissioner of the seal,
The third commissioner of the Treasury.

"Triennial magistrates, and therefore such as can be chosen out of the
third region only, as that alone which has the term of three years
unexpired.

"The strategus and the orator sitting, are consuls, or presidents of the
Senate.

"The strategus marching is general of the army, in which case a new
strategus is to be elected in his room.

"The strategus sitting with six commissioners, being councillors of the
nation, are the signory of the commonwealth."

The censors are magistrates of the ballot, presidents of the Council for
Religion, and chancellors of the universities.

"The second part of the tropic perpetuates the Council of State, by the
election of five knights out of the first region of the Senate, to be
the first region of that council consisting of fifteen knights, five in
every region.

"The like is done by the election of four into the Council of Religion,
and four into the Council of Trade, out of the same region in the
Senate; each of these councils consisting of twelve knights, four in
every region.

"But the Council of War, consisting of nine knights, three in every
region, is elected by and out of the Council of State, as the other
councils are elected by and out of the Senate. And if the Senate add a
juncta of nine knights more, elected out of their own number, for the
term of three months, the Council of War, by virtue of that addition, is
Dictator of Oceana for the said term.

"The signory jointly or severally has right of