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[English Translation] large box in the Senate room, where from there they are drawn in the public assembly, as they come by lot, to be sent to the Provinces to make their trial shots. dinaries. The first offices in which they are employed are: Popular Millenier, Advocates following the Presidents and Councillors, Guards, and following the Popular Gentlemen, Treasurers' Officers or Receivers General to visit the lands and domains of the Crown: And because they must be dependent, and be a little better dressed, they are given three hundred pounds in addition to their ordinary wages. The year of their office having expired, they return to the capital city, where their Presidents, Councillors and Hundred Thousanders declare how they have behaved in their administration, and what hope consequently the public can have of the capacity of each of them, publicly praising those who have done well, and on the contrary blaspheming and chastising those who have behaved badly: then they are dismissed for three months, and their names are put back in another quest, so that all those who are in the first must be employed, first that these be withdrawn again, noting |
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