always provided of her choice of fit persons.

"Every council being adorned with a state for the signory,
shall be attended by two secretaries, two doorkeepers, and two
messengers-in-ordinary, and have power to command more upon
emergencies, as occasion requires. And the Academy shall be
attended with two secretaries, two messengers, and two
doorkeepers; this with the other councils being provided with
their further conveniences at the charge of the State.

"But whereas it is incident to commonwealths, upon
emergencies requiring extraordinary speed or secrecy, either
through their natural delays or unnatural haste, to incur equal
danger, while holding to the slow pace of their orders, they come
not in time to defend themselves from some sudden blow; or
breaking them for the greater speed, they but haste to their own
destruction; if the Senate shall at any time make election of
nine knights-extraordinary, to be added to the Council of War, as
a juncta for the term of three months, the Council of War with
the juncta so added, is for the term of the same Dictator of
Oceana, having power to levy men and money, to make war and
peace, as also to enact laws, which shall be good for the space
of one year (if they be not sooner repealed by the Senate and the
people) and for no longer time, except they be confirmed by the
Senate and the people. And the whole administration of the
commonwealth for the term of the said three months shall be in
the Dictator, provided that the Dictator shall have no power to
do anything that tends not to his proper end and institution, but
all to the preservation of the commonwealth as it is established,
and for the sudden restitution of the same to the natural channel