"This court being thus constituted, makes election of divers
magistrates; as first, of a high steward, who is commonly some
person of quality, and this magistracy is elected in the Senate
by the scrutiny of this court; with him they choose some able
lawyer to be his deputy, and to hold the court; and last of all
they elect out of their own number six censors.
"The high steward is commander-in-chief of the two tribes,
whereof he in person brings up the one at the national muster to
the ballot, and his deputy the other at a distinct pavilion; the
six censors chosen by the court officiating by three in each
tribe at the urns; and these tribes have no other phylarch but
this court.
"As for the manner of elections and suffrage, both in
Emporium and Hiera, it may be said, once for all, that they are
performed by ballot, and according to the respective rules
already given.
"There be other cities and corporations throughout the
territory, whose policy being much of this kind, would be tedious
and not worth the labor to insert, nor dare I stay. Juvenum manus
emicat ardens."
I return, according to the method of the commonwealth, to the
remaining parts of her orbs, which are military and provincial;
the military, except the strategus, and the polemarchs or
field-officers, consIsting of the youth only, and the provincial
consisting of a mixture both of elders and of the youth.
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