fortune at the side urn comes to nothing at all; wherefore he
also returns to his place. But the senator C has had a prize at
the middle urn, where the commissioner, having viewed his ball,
and found the mark to be right, he marches up the steps to the
seat of the electors, which is the form d set across the
tribunal, where he places himself, according as he was drawn,
with the other electors e, e, e drawn before him. These are not
to look back, but sit with their faces toward the signory or
state, till their number amount to that of the magistrates to be
that day chosen, which for the present, as was shown, are six:
wherefore six electors being made, they are reckoned according as
they were drawn: first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, in
their order, and the first six that are chosen are the first
order of electors.

The first order of electors being made, are conducted by a
secretary, with a copy of the list to be chosen, out of the
Senate, and into a committee or council-chamber, being neither
suffered by the way, nor in their room (till the ballot be
ended), to have conference with any but themselves; wherefore the
secretary, having given them their oath that they shall make
election according to the law and their conscience, delivers them
the list, and seats himself at the lower end of the table with
his pen and paper, while another secretary keeps the door.

By such time as the first order of electors are thus seated,
the second order of electors is drawn, who, with a second copy of
the same list, are conducted into another committee-chamber, by
other secretaries performing the same office with the former.