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Rh the eniors, the members of which hold their places for two years, aited by ome other councils; and four parts in five of the enate mut agree in paing a law. The doge is obliged to reide in the public palace the two years he enjoys his office, with two of the eniors, and their families. The palace where he reides, and where the great and little council, and the two colleges of the procuratori and gouvernatori aemble, is a large tone building in the center of the city. At the expiration of his time, he retires to his own houe for eight days, when his adminitration is either approved or condemned; and in the latter cae, he is proceeded againt as a criminal. At the election of the doge, a crown of gold is placed on his head, and a ceptre in his hand, as king of Corica, he is attended with life-guards, is clothed in crimon velvet, and tyled Mot Serene, the enators Excellencies, and the nobility Illutrious.

The nobility are allowed to trade in the wholeale way; to carry on velvet, ilk, and cloth manufactures; and to have hares in merchant hips: and ome of them, as the Palavacini, are actually the greatet merchants in Genoa.

The extent is about one hundred and fifty-two miles, the breadth from eight to twenty miles.