If the major vote
comes the second time in the non-sincere, the cause shall be
heard again upon the third day; but at the third hearing the
question shall be put without the non-sincere. Upon the first of
the three days in which the major vote comes in the white box,
the party accused is absolved; and upon the first of them in
which it comes in the black box, the party accused is condemned.
The party accused being condemned, the tribunes (if the case be
criminal) shall put with the white and the black box these
questions, or such of them as, regard had to the case, they shall
conceive most proper:
1. Whether he shall have a writ of ease;
2. Whether he shall be fined so much or so much;
3. Whether he shall be confiscated;
4. Whether he shall be rendered incapable of magistracy;
5. Whether he shall be banished;
6. Whether he shall be put to death.
"These, or any three of these questions, whether simple or
such as shall be thought fitly mixed, being put by the tribunes,
that which has most above half the votes in the black box is the
sentence of the people, which the troop of the third class is to
see executed accordingly.
"But whereas by the constitution of this commonwealth it may
appear that neither the propositions of the Senate nor the
judicature of the people will be so frequent as to hold the
prerogative in continual employment, the Senate, a main part of
whose office it is to teach and instruct the people, shall duly
(if they have no greater affairs to divert them) cause an oration
to be made to the prerogative by some knight or magistrate of the
Senate, to be chosen out of the ablest men, and from time to time
appointed by the orator of the house, in the great hall of the
Pantheon, while the Parliament resides in the town, or in some
grove or sweet place in the field, while the Parliament for the
heat of the year shall reside in the country, upon every Tuesday,
morning or afternoon.
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