and common course of government. And all acts, orders, decrees,
or laws of the Council of War with the junota being thus created,
shall be signed,

"DICTATOR OCEANAE."

This order of instructions to the councils being (as in a
matter of that nature is requisite) very large, I have used my
best skill to abbreviate it in such manner as might show no more
of it than is necessary to the understanding of the whole, though
as to the parts, or further duties of the councils, I have
omitted many things of singular use in a commonwealth. But it was
discoursed at the council by the Archon in this manner:

"MY LORDS, THE LEGISLATORS:

"Your councils, except the Dictator only, are proper and
native springs and sources, you see, which (hanging a few sticks
and straws, that, as less considerable, would otherwise be more
troublesome, upon the banks of their peculiar channels) derive
the full stream of business into the Senate, so pure, and so far
from the possibility of being troubled or stained (as will
Undeniably appear by the course contained in the ensuing order)
with any kind of private interest or partiality, that it shall
never be possible for any assembly hearkening to the advice or
information of this or that worthy member (either instructed upon
his pillow, or while he was making himself ready, or by the
petition or ticket which he received at the door) to have half
the security in his faith, or advantage by his wisdom; such a
Senate or council being, through the uncertainty of the winds,