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The Commonwealth of Oceana by James Harrington
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ancient temple, and looking into a field capable of the muster of
some 4,000 men; before each pavilion stand three pillars
sustaining urns for the ballot, that on the right hand equal in
height to the brow of a horseman, being called the horse urn,
that on the left hand, with bridges on either side to bring it
equal in height with the brow of a footman, being called the foot
urn, and the middle urn, with a bridge on the side toward the
foot urn, the other side, as left for the horse, being without
one; and here ended the whole work of the surveyors, who returned
to the Lord Archon with this --

ACCOUNT OF THE CHARGE

Imprimis: Urns, balls, and balloting-boxes for 10,000 parishes,
the same being wooden-ware, œ20,000
Item: Provision of the like kind for a thousand hundreds

3,000
Item: Urns and balls of metal, with balloting-boxes for fifty
tribes,

2,000
Item: For erecting of fifty pavilions,

60,000
Item: Wages for four surveyors-general at œ1,000 a man

4,000
Item: Wages for the rest of the surveyors, being 1,000 at œ250 a
man
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