They shall manage the lands (if there be
any such held in either of the provinces by the commonwealth of
Oceana, in dominion) and return the rents into the Exchequer. If
the commonwealth comes to be possessed of richer provinces, the
pay of the general or strategus, and of the councils, may be
respectively increased. The people for the rest shall elect their
own magistrates, and be governed by their own laws, having power
also to appeal from their native or provincial magistrates, if
they please, to the people of Oceana. And whereas there may be
such as receiving injury, are not able to prosecute their appeals
at so great a distance, eight sergeants-at-law, being sworn by
the commissioners of the seal, shall be sent by four into each
province once in two years; who, dividing the same by circuits,
shall hear such causes, and having gathered and introduced them,
shall return to the several appellants, gratis, the
determinations and decrees of the people in their several cases.
"The term of a knight in a provincial orb, as to domestic
magistracies, shall be esteemed a vacation, and no bar to present
election to any other honor, his provincial magistracy being
expired.
"The quorum of a provincial council, as also of every other
council or assembly in Oceana, shall in time of health consist of
two parts in three of the whole number proper to that council or
assembly; and in a time of sickness, of one part in three; but of
the Senate there can be no quorum without three of the signory,
nor of a council without two of the provosts.
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