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, 20,000 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 1,000 a man 4,000 Item: Wages for the rest of the surveyors, being 1,000 at 250 a man |
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