are chosen to every office, the list shall be returned to the
overseers, or such as the overseers, in case they or either of
them happened to be electors, have substituted in his or their
place or places; and the overseers or substitutes having caused
the list to be read to the congregation, shall put the
competitors, in order as they are written, to the ballot of the
congregation; and the rest of the proceedings being carried on in
the manner directed in the fifth order, that competitor, of the
three written to each office, who has most of the suffrages above
half in the affirmative, is the officer. The list being after
this manner completed, shall be entered into a register, to be
kept at the rendezvous of the hundred, under inspection of the
magistrates of the same, after the manner following:
Anno Domini
THE LIST OF THE NEBULOSA
A.A. Equestrian Order, Justice of the Peace,
B.B. Equestrian Order, First Juryman,
C.C. Equestrian Order, Captain of the Hundred,
D.D. Equestrian Order, Ensign,
E.E. Second Juryman,
F.F. High Constable,
G.G. Coroner,
Of the hundred of in the tribe of , which hundred
consists at this election of 105 deputies.
"The list being entered, the high constable shall take three
copies of the same, whereof he shall presently return one to the
lord high sheriff of the tribe, a second to the lord custos
rotulorum, and a third to the censors; or these, through the want
of such magistrates at the first muster, may be returned to the
orator, to be appointed for that tribe. To the observation of all
and every part of this order, the officers and deputies of the
hundred are all and every of them obliged, as they will answer it
to the phylarch, who has power, in case of failure in the whole
or any part, to fine all or any of them so failing at discretion,
or according to such laws as shall hereafter be provided in that
case, but under an appeal to the Parliament." There is little in
this order worthy of any further account, but that it answers to
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