“The civil orbs consist of the elders, and are thus created: every
Monday next ensuing the last of December, the elders in every parish
elect the fifth man to be a deputy, which is but half a day’s work;
every Monday next ensuing the last of January, the deputies meet at
their respective hundred, and elect out of their number one justice of
the peace, one juryman, one coroner, and one high constable of the foot,
one day’s work.
“Every Monday next ensuing the last of February, the hundreds meet
at their respective tribe, and there elect the lords high sheriff,
lieutenant, custos rotulorum, the conductor, the two censors out of
the horse, the magistrates of the tribe and of the hundreds, with the
jurymen constituting the phylarch, and who assist in their respective
offices at the assizes, hold the quarter-sessions, etc. The day
following the tribe elects the annual galaxy, consisting of two knights
and three deputies out of the horse, with four deputies out of the foot,
thereby endued with power, as magistrates of the whole nation, for the
term of three years. An officer chosen at the hundred may not be elected
a magistrate of the tribe; but a magistrate or officer either of the
hundred or of the tribe, being elected into the galaxy, may substitute
any one of his office in the hundred or in own order to his magistracy
or office in the hundred or in the tribe. This of the muster is two
days’ work. So the body of the people is annually, at the charge of
three days’ work and a half, in their own tribes, for the perpetuation
of their power, receiving 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.
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