If we divide the whole number into four parts of ninety each, we get ninety counsellors for each class.

First, all the citizens shall select candidates from the first class; they shall be compelled to vote, and, if they do not, shall be duly fined.

When the candidates have been selected, some one shall mark them down; this shall be the business of the first day.

And on the following day, candidates shall be selected from the second class in the same manner and under the same conditions as on the previous day; and on the third day a selection shall be made from the third class, at which every one may, if he likes vote, and the three first classes shall be compelled to vote; but the fourth and lowest class shall be under no compulsion, and any member of this class who does not vote shall not be punished.

On the fourth day candidates shall be selected from the fourth and smallest class; they shall be selected by all, but he who is of the fourth class shall suffer no penalty, nor he who is of the third, if he be not willing to vote; but he who is of the first or second class, if he does not vote shall be punished;--he who is of the second class shall pay a fine of triple the amount which was exacted at first, and he who is of the first class quadruple.