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To perfect the whole structure of this commonwealth, some
directions are given to the third essay, or army marching, in--
The thirtieth order. "'When thou goest to battle against thy
enemies, and seest horses and chariots, and a people more than
thou, be not afraid of them, for the Lord thy God is he that goes
with thee to fight for thee against thy enemies. And when thou
dividest the spoil, it shall be as a statute and an ordinance to
thee, that as his part is that goes down to the battle, so shall
his part be that tarries by the stuff; that is (as to the
commonwealth of Oceana) the spoil takin of the enemy (except
clothes, arms, horses, ammunition, and victuals, to be divided to
the soldiery by the strategus and the polemarchs upon the place
according to their discretion) shall be delivered to four
commissaries of the spoils elected and sworn by the Council of
War, which commissaries shall be allowed shipping by the State,
and convoys according as occasion shall require by the strategus,
to the end that having a bill of lading signed by three or more
of the polemarchs, they may ship and bring, or cause such spoils
to be brought to the prize-office in Oceana, where they shall be
sold, and the profit arising by such spoils shall be divided into
three parts, whereof one shall go to the Treasury, another shall
be paid to the soldiery of this nation, and a third to the
auxiliaries at their return from their service, provided that the
said auxiliaries be equal in number to the proper forces of this
nation, otherwise their share shall be so much less as they
themselves are fewer in number; the rest of the two-thirds to go
to the officers and soldiers of the proper forces.
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