by the first collection of the people of Oceana, whose function
proper to that place is comprised in the six preceding orders.
The next step in the progress of the surveyors was to a
meeting of the nearest of them, as their work lay, by twenties;
where conferring their lists, and computing the deputies
contained therein, as the number of them in parishes, being
nearest neighbors, amounted to 100, or as even as might
conveniently be brought with that account, they cast them and
those parishes into the precinct which (be the deputies ever
since more or fewer) is still called the hundred; and to every
one of these precincts they appointed a certain place, being the
most convenient town within the same, for the annual rendezvous;
which done, each surveyor, returning to his hundred, and
summoning the deputies contained in his lists to the rendezvous,
they appeared and received --
The seventh order, requiring, "That upon the first Monday
next ensuing the last of January, the deputies of every parish
annually assemble in arms at the rendezvous of the hundred, and
there elect out of their number one justice of the peace, one
juryman, one captain, one ensign of their troop or century, each
of these out of the horse; and one juryman, one coroner, one high
constable, out of the foot. The election to be made by the ballot
in this manner. The jurymen for the time being are to be
overseers of the ballot (instead of these, the surveyors are to
officiate at the first assembly), and to look to the performance
of the same according to what was directed in the ballot of the
parishes, saving that the high constable setting forth the urn
shall have five several suits of gold balls, and one dozen of
every suit; whereof the first shall be marked with the letter A,
the second with the letter B, the third with C, the fourth with
D, and the fifth with E: and of each of these suits he shall cast
one ball into his hat, or into a little urn, and shaking the
balls together, present them to the first overseer, who shall
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