“Annual magistrates and therefore such as may be elected out of any region; the term of every region having at the tropic one year at the least unexpired.
The third commissioner of the seal,
The third commissioner of the Treasury.
“Triennial magistrates, and therefore such as can be chosen out of the third region only, as that alone which has the term of three years unexpired.
“The strategus and the orator sitting, are consuls, or presidents of the Senate.
“The strategus marching is general of the army, in which case a new strategus is to be elected in his room.
“The strategus sitting with six commissioners, being councillors of the nation, are the signory of the commonwealth.”
The censors are magistrates of the ballot, presidents of the Council for Religion, and chancellors of the universities.
“The second part of the tropic perpetuates the Council of State, by the election of five knights out of the first region of the Senate, to be the first region of that council consisting of fifteen knights, five in every region.
“The like is done by the election of four into the Council of Religion, and four into the Council of Trade, out of the same region in the Senate; each of these councils consisting of twelve knights, four in every region.
“But the Council of War, consisting of nine knights, three in every region, is elected by and out of the Council of State, as the other councils are elected by and out of the Senate. And if the Senate add a juncta of nine knights more, elected out of their own number, for the term of three months, the Council of War, by virtue of that addition, is Dictator of Oceana for the said term.