And this is the third essay of the
stratiots, which being shipped, or marched out of their tribes,
the lord lieutenants shall re-elect the second essay out of the
remaining part of the first, and the Senate another strategus.
"If any veteran or veterans of this nation, the term of whose
youth or militia is expired, having a desire to be entertained in
the further service of the commonwealth, shall present him or
themselves at the rendezvous of Oceana to the strategus, it is in
his power to take on such and so many of them as shall be agreed
by the polemarchs, and to send back an equal number of the
stratiots.
"And for the better managing of the proper forces of this
nation, the lord strategus, by appointment of the Council of War,
and out of such levies as they shall have made in either or both
of the provinces to that end, shall receive auxiliaries by sea or
elsewhere at some certain place, not exceeding his proper arms in
number.
"And whosoever shall refuse any one of his three essays,
except upon cause shown, he be dispensed withal by the phylarch,
or, if the phylarch be not assembled, by the censors of his
tribe, shall be deemed a helot or public servant, shall pay a
fifth part of his yearly revenue, besides all other taxes, to the
commonwealth for his protection, and be incapable of bearing any
magistracy except such as is proper to the law.
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