session and suffrage in
every senatorial council, and to propose either to the Senate, or any of
them. And every region in a council electing one weekly provost, any
two of those provosts have power also to propose to their respective
council, as the proper and peculiar proposers of the same, for which
cause they hold an academy, where any man, either by word of mouth or
writing, may propose to the proposers.

"Next to the elections of the tropic is the biennial election of one
ambassador-in-ordinary, by the ballot of the house, to the residence
of France; at which time the resident of France removes to Spain, he
of Spain to Venice, he of Venice to Constantinople, and he of
Constantinople returns. So the orb of the residents is wheeled about in
eight years, by the biennial election of one ambassador-in-ordinary.

"The last kind of election is emergent. Emergent elections are made by
the scrutiny. Election by scrutiny is when a competitor, being made by
a council, and brought into the Senate, the Senate chooses four more
competitors to him, and putting all five to the ballot, he who has most
above half the suffrages is the magistrate. The polemarchs or
field officers are chosen by the scrutiny of the Council of War; an
ambassador-extraordinary by the scrutiny of the Council of State; the
judges and sergeants-at-law by the scrutiny of the seal; and the barons
and prime officers of the Exchequer, by the scrutiny of the Treasury..

"The opinion or opinions that are legitimately proposed to any council
must be debated by the same, and so many as are resolved upon the debate
are introduced into the Senate, where they are debated and resolved, or
rejected by the whole house; that which is resolved by the Senate is
a decree which is good in matters of state, but no law, except it be
proposed to and resolved by the prerogative.

"The deputies of the galaxy being three horse and four foot in a tribe,
amount in all the tribes to 150 horse and 200 foot; which, having
entered the prerogative, and chosen their captains, cornet, and ensign
(triennial officers), make the third class, consisting of one troop
and one company; and so, joining with the whole prerogative, elect four
annual magistrates, called tribunes, whereof two are of the horse and
two of the foot. These have the command of the prerogative sessions,
and suffrage in the Council of War, and sessions without suffrage in the
Senate.

"The Senate having passed a decree