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The Commonwealth of Oceana by James Harrington
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foot be unequal, unequally, by an arithmetical proportion. The
like shall be done the second day of the muster for the second
list, except that the censors shall put into the middle urn
thirty-six gold balls with twenty-four blanks, in all sixty; and
sixty gold balls into the side urns, divided respectively into
the number of the horse and the foot; and the gold balls in the
side urns at either ballot are by the addition of blanks to be
brought even with the number of the ballotants at either urn
respectively. The censors having prepared their notes, as has
been shown, and being come at the day appointed into the field,
shall present a little urn to the lord high sheriff, who is to
draw twice for the letters to be used that day, the one at the
side urns, and the other at the middle. And the censors having
fitted the urns accordingly, shall place themselves in certain
movable seats or pulpits (to be kept for that use in the
pavilion) the first censor before the horse urn, the second
before the foot urn, the lord lieutenant doing the office of
censor pro tempore at the middle urn; where all and every one of
them shall cause the laws of the ballot to be diligently
observed, taking a special care that no man be suffered to come
above once to the urn (whereof it more particularly concerns the
sub-censors, that is to say, the overseers of every parish, to be
careful, they being each in this regard responsible for their
respective parishes) or to draw above one ball, which if it be
gold, he is to present to the censor, who shall look upon the
letter; and if it be not that of the day, and of the respective
urn, apprehend the party, who for this or any other like disorder
is obnoxious to the phylarch."

This order being observed by the censors, it is not possible
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