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The Commonwealth of Oceana by James Harrington
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To be chosen out of the horse.
6. Deputy
7. Deputy
8. Deputy
9. Deputy

To be chosen out of the foot.

"The rest of the ballot shall proceed exactly according to
that of the first day. But, forasmuch as the commonwealth demands
as well the fruits of a man's body as of his mind, he that has
not been married shall not be capable of these magistracies till
he be married. If a deputy already chosen to be an officer in the
parish, in the hundred, or in the tribe, be afterward chosen of
the galaxy, it shall be lawful for him to delegate his office in
the parish, in the hundred, or in the tribe, to any one of his
own order being not already chosen into office. The knights and
deputies being chosen, shall he brought to the head of the tribe
by the lord high sheriff, who shall administer to them this oath:
'Ye shall well and truly observe and keep the orders and customs
of this commonwealth which the people have chosen.' And if any of
them shall refuse the oath, he shall be rejected, and that
competitor which had the most voices next shall be called in his
place, who, if he takes the oath, shall be entered in the list;
but if he also refuses the oath, he who had most voices next
shall be called, and so till the number of nine out of those
competitors which had most voices be sworn knights and deputies
of the galaxy. (This clause, in regard to the late divisions, and
to the end that no violence be offered to any man's conscience,
to be of force but for the first three years only.) The knights
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