During and also at the close of the session, which might last seven or eight hours,[628] a simple meal of bread, meat, rice, fruit, and water was served to all who were in attendance within and without the hall of the Divan. To meet the expense of this, four days’ pay was reserved each year from the salaries of all who were expected to attend.[629] Order was kept most carefully among all who were present within and without the hall of the Divan, and absolute silence was preserved, except for such movements and conversation as were necessary to the transaction of business. Any disturber of order and quiet was taken away and immediately bastinadoed. After the day’s work was done, which might be about noon in summer time or toward sunset in the winter, those officials of the Divan who had the right of audience went to the hall of audience to meet the sultan. They were the viziers, _Kaziaskers_, and _Defterdars_ regularly, and the _Beylerbeys_ and the _Agha_ of the Janissaries when they had business;[630] the _Defterdars_, however, received audience on Sundays and Tuesdays only. The _Kaziaskers_ entered first, and when their business had been approved they went to the gate and held court. The _Beylerbeys_, the _Defterdars_, and the viziers entered the audience chamber together. The _Beylerbeys_ transacted their business and departed; the _Defterdars_ did likewise, and went to the door of the treasury to give audience. The ordinary viziers, left behind in the presence of the sultan, usually said nothing unless asked; the grand vizier alone reported on the decisions of the day.[631] These the sultan usually approved as made, sometimes mitigating a decision or himself dictating a reply to an ambassador.[632] Suleiman was willing to give a free hand to Ibrahim, Rustem, and Mohammed Sokolli during their long periods of service.[633] In time of war the Divan was held in the grand vizier’s tent, which was usually pitched near the sultan’s. As all the high officials, and the heads of bureaus with at least part of their clerks, were present with the army, much the same ceremony could be gone through with as in the capital. When the sultan was absent from the city on campaigns, the few officials of government who were left behind held a secondary Divan on Saturdays and Sundays. In case of emergency during war-time, or for some other special reason, a Divan might be held on horseback.[634]