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[English Translation] the Council as much by the words of the Magistrates who have been in the Provinces, as by the papers of the Clerks, those who have done some act of justice, prudence or magnanimity, in order to put their names in another quest apart, to be employed in higher ranks charges & offices. The second time that the names of this youth are drawn by lot, they are used in the Captaincies of the galleys, in the states of Councilors, Political Ten Thousanders, Centenaries of the nobility, that is to say of those who reside at Court, or in the Provinces. Having returned from their duties, their behavior is examined, noting first of all those who have done the best, and being exhorted by the council to behave even better, their names are put in a third quest, to be made Presidents, Treasurers, Hundredthousands, Honorable Thousanders of Youth, or Superintendents of the Academy, and from there having passed through all these offices, and again tested and examined, their names are put in the fourth quest to be elected Senators, Secretaries, Chaceliers, Treasurer General, Viceroy, and even King, if their virtue, services and great merits are deemed worthy of them. |
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