The strategus or magistrate thus chosen
shall be as well president of the provincial council with power
to propose to the same, as general of the army. The council for
the rest shall elect weekly provosts, having any two of them also
right to propose after the manner of the senatorian councils of
Oceana. And whereas all provincial councils are members of the
Council of State, they may and ought to keep diligent
correspondence with the same, which is to be done after this
manner: Any opinion or opinions legitimately proposed and debated
at a provincial council, being thereupon signed by the strategus
or any two of the provosts, may be transmitted to the Council of
State in Oceana; and the Council of State proceeding upon the
same in their natural course (whether by their own power, if it
be a matter within their instructions; or by authority of the
Senate thereupon consulted, if it be a matter of state which is
not in their instructions; or by authority of the Senate and
command of the people, if it be a matter of law, as for the
levies of men or money upon common use and safety) shall return
such answers, advice, or orders as in any of the ways mentioned
shall be determined upon the case.
"The provincial councils of Marpesia and Panopea respectively
shall take special care that the agrarian laws, as also all other
laws that be or shall from time to time be enacted by the
Parliament of Oceana, for either of them, be duly put in
execution; they shall manage and receive the customs of either
nation for the shipping of Oceana, being the common guard; they
shall have a care that moderate and sufficient pay upon the
respective province be duly raised for the support and
maintenance of the officers and soldiers, or army of the same, in
the most effectual, constant, and convenient way; they shall
receive the regalia, or public revenues of those nations, out of
which every councillor shall have for his term, and to his proper
use, the sum of ?500 per annum, and the strategus ?500 as
president, beside his pay as general, which shall be ?1,000, the
reminder to go to the use of the knights and deputies of the
respective provinces, to be paid, if it will reach, according to
the rates of Oceana; if not, by an equal distribution,
respectively, or the overplus, if there be any, to be returned to
the Treasury of Oceana.
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