If the major vote
be in the non-sincere, the proposer shall desist, and the Senate
shall resume the debate. If the major vote be in the negative,
the proposers shall desist, and the Senate, too. But if the major
vote be in the affirmative, then the tribe is clear and the
proposers shall begin and put the whole matter, with the negative
and the affirmative (leaving out the non-sincere) by clauses; and
the suffrages being taken and numbered by the tribunes in the
presence of the proposers, shall be written and reported by the
tribunes of the Senate. And that which is proposed by the
authority of the Senate, and confirmed by the command of the
people, is the law of Oceana.
"The proceeding of the prerogative in a case of judicature is
to be thus ordered: The tribunes being auditors of all causes
appertaining to the cognizance of the people, shall have notice
of the suit or trial, whether of appeal or otherwise, that is to
be commenced; and if any one of them shall accept of the same, it
appertains to him to introduce it. A cause being introduced, and
the people mustered or assembled for the decision of the same,
the tribunes are presidents of the court, having power to keep it
to orders, and shall be seated upon a scaffold erected in the
middle of the tribe.
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