the magistrates already chosen be good, voids the election of
such competitors as being chosen are not yet furnished with
magistracies, as if they had never been named (for this is no
juggling-box, but an art that must see the sun), and the ballot
for the remaining magistracies is to be repeated the next day by
new orders of electors, and such competitors as by them shall be
elected. And so in the like manner, if of all the names proposed
to the same magistracy, no one of them attains to above half the
suffrages in the affirmative.

The senatorian ballot of Oceana being thus described, those
of the parish, of the hundred, and of the tribe, being so little
different, that in this they are all contained, and by this may
be easily understood, are yet fully described, and made plain
enough before in the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and
tenth orders.

This, therefore, is the general order, whence those branches
of the ballot, some whereof you have already seen, are derived;
which, with those that follow, were all read and debated in this
place at the institution. When my Lord Epimonus de Garrula, being
one of the councillors, and having no further patience (though
the rulers were composed by the agent of this commonwealth,
residing for that purpose at Venice) than to hear the direction
for the parishes, stood up and made way for himself in this
manner:

"MAY IT PLEASE YOUR HIGHNESS, MY LORD ARCHON:

"Under correction of Mr. Peregrin, Spy, our very learned