The fifteenth order requiring, “That upon every Monday next ensuing the
last of March, the knights of the annual galaxies taking their places in
the Senate, be called the third region of the same; and that the house
having dismissed the first region, and received the third, proceed to
election of the magistrates contained in the first part of the tropic,
by the ensuing schedule:
The lord strategus,
The lord orator,
the first censor,
The second censor,
Annual magistrates,
The third commissioner of the seal,
The third commissioner of the Treasury,
Triennal magistrates.
“The annual magistrates (provided that no one man bears above one of
those honors during the term of one session) may be elected out of any
region. But the triennial magistrates may not be elected out of any
other than the third region only, lest the term of their session expire
before that of their honor; and (it being unlawful for a man to bear
magistracy any longer than he is thereto qualified by the election of
the people) cause a fraction in the rotation of this commonwealth.
“The strategus is first president of the Senate, and general of the
army, if it be commanded to march; in which case there shall be a second
strategus elected to be first president of the Senate, and general
of the second army, and if this also be commanded to march, a third
strategus shill be chosen, and so on, as long as the commonwealth sends
forth armies.
“The lord orator is the second and more peculiar president of the Senate
to whom it appertains to keep the house to orders.
“The censors, whereof the first, by consequence of his election,
is chancellor of the University of Clio, and the second of that of
Calliope, are presidents of the Council for Religion and magistrates, to
whom it belongs to keep the house to the order of the ballot. They are
also inquisitors into the ways and means of acquiring magistracy, and
have power to punish indirect proceedings in the same, by removing a
knight or magistrate out of the house, under appeal to the Senate.
“The commissioners of the seal being three, whereof the third is
annually chosen out of the third region, are judges in chancery.
“The commissioners of the Treasury being three, whereof the third is
annually chosen out of the third region, are judges in the exchequer,
and every magistrate of this schedule has right to propose to the
Senate.
“But the strategus with the six commissioners is the signory of this
commonwealth, having right of session and suffrage in every council of
the Senate, and power either jointly or severally to propose in all or
any of them.”
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