Wherefore the fundamental laws of Oceana, or the centre of
this commonwealth, are the agrarian and the ballot: the agrarian
by the balance of dominion preserving equality in the root; and
the ballot by an equal rotation conveying it into the branch, or
exercise of sovereign power, as, to begin with the former,
appears by --

The thirteenth order, "Constituting the agrarian laws of
Oceana, Marpesia, and Panopea, whereby it is ordained, first, for
all such lands as are lying and being within the proper
territories of Oceana, that every man who is at present
possessed, or shall hereafter be possessed, of an estate in land
exceeding the revenue of œ2,000 a year, and having more than one
son, shall leave his lands either equally divided among them, in
case the lands amount to above œ2,000 a year to each, or so near
equally, in case they come under, that the greater part or
portion of the same remaining to the eldest exceed not the value
of œ2,000 revenue. And no man, not in present possession of lands
above the value of œ2,000 by the year, shall receive, enjoy
(except by lawful inheritance) acquire, or, purchase to himself
lands within the said territories, amounting, with those already
in his possession, above the said revenue. And if a man has a
daughter or daughters, except she be an heiress or they be
heiresses, he shall not leave or give to any. One of them in
marriage, or otherwise, for her portion, above the value of
œ1,500 in lands, goods, and moneys. Nor shall any friend,
kinsman, or kinswoman add to her or their portion or portions
that are so provided for, to make any one of them greater. Nor
shall any man demand or have more in marriage with any woman.