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having decreed a war) receive in return of his warrants the second essay
from the hands of the conductors at the rendezvous of Oceana; which
army, marching with all accommodations provided by the Council of War,
the Senate elects a new strategus, and the lords-lieutenant a new second
essay.

"A youth, except he be an only son, refusing any one of his three
essays, without sufficient cause shown to the phylarch or the censors,
is incapable of magistracy, and is fined a fifth part of his yearly
rent, or of his estate, for protection. In case of invasion the elders
are obliged to like duty with the youth, and upon their own charge.

"The provincial orb consisting in part of the elders, and in part of the
youth, is thus created:

"Four knights out of the first region falling, are elected in the Senate
to be the first region of the provincial orb of Marpesia; these, being
triennial magistrates, take their places in the provincial council,
consisting of twelve knights, four in every region, each region choosing
their weekly provosts of the council thus constituted. One knight more,
chosen out of the same region in the Senate, being an annual magistrate,
is president, with power to propose; and the opinions proposed by the
president, or any two of the provosts, are debated by the council, and,
if there be occasion of further power or instruction than they yet have,
transmitted to the Council of State, with which the provincial is to
hold intelligence.

"The president of this council is also strategus or general of the
provincial army; wherefore the conductors, upon notice of his election,
and appointment of his rendezvous, deliver to him the stratiots of his
letter, which he takes with him into his province; and the provincial
army having received the new strategus with the third class, the council
dismisses the old strategus with the first class. The like is done for
Panopea, or any other province.

"But whereas the term of every other magistracy or election in this
commonwealth, whether annual or triennial, requires an equal vacation,
the term of a provincial councillor or magistrate requires no vacation
at all. The quorum of a provincial, as also that of every other council
and assembly, requires two-thirds in a time of health, and one-third in
a time of sickness.

"I think I have omitted nothing but the props and scaffolds, which
are not of use but in building. And how much is here? Show me another
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