And if
there happen to grow any dispute upon these or such other orders
as shall or may hereto be added hereafter, the phylarchs shall
judge the tribes, and the Parliament shall judge the phylarchs.
For the rest, if any man shall go about to introduce the right or
power of debate into any popular council or congregation of this
nation, the phylarch or any magistrate of the hundred, or of the
tribe, shall cause him presently to be sent in custody to the
Council of War.
The part of the order relating to the rolls in Emporium being
of singular use, is not unworthy to be somewhat better opened. In
what manner the lists of the parishes, hundreds, and tribes are
made, has been shown in their respective orders, where, after the
parties are elected, they give an account of the whole number of
the elders or deputies in their respective assemblies or musters;
the like for this part exactly is done by the youth in their
discipline (to be hereafter shown) wherefore the lists of the
parishes, youth and elders, being summed up, give the whole
number of the people able to bear arms, and the lists of the
tribes, youth and elders, being summed up, give the whole number
of the people bearing arms. This account, being annually recorded
by the master of the rolls, is called the "Pillar of Nilus,"
because the people, being the riches of the commonwealth, as they
are found to rise or fall by the degrees of this pillar, like
that river, give an account of the public harvest.
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