The like exactly is done by the third and by the fourth
orders (or hands, as the Venetians call them) of electors, by
which means you have the four-and-twenty electors divided
according to the four copies of the same list, by six, into four
hands or orders; and every one of these orders names one
competitor to every magistracy in the list; that is to say, the
first elector names to the first magistracy, the second elector
to the second magistracy, and so forth. But though the electors,
as has been shown, are chosen by mere lot, yet the competitors by
them named are not chosen by any lot, but by the suffrage of the
whole order for example, the first elector in the first order
proposes a name to be strategus, which name is balloted by
himself and the other five electors, and if the name so balloted
attain not to above half the suffrages, it is laid aside, and the
first elector names another to the same magistracy and so in case
this also fails, another, till one he has named, whether it be
himself, or some other, has attained to above half the suffrages
in the affirmative; and the name so attaining to above half the
suffrages in the affirmative is written to the first magistracy
in the list by the secretary which being done, the second elector
of the first order, names to 'the second magistracy till one of
his nomination be chosen to the same. The like is done by the
rest of the electors of the first order, till one competitor be
chosen, and written to every magistracy in their list. Now the
second, third, and fourth orders of electors doing exactly after
the same manner, it comes to pass that one competitor to every
magistracy being chosen in each order, there be in all four
competitors chosen to every magistracy.

If any controversy arises in an order of electors, one of the