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X. As many denominations as there are of Arcadian 

 lands, as many fhall be the fhepherds and the pastoral 

 names : when any is deceased or expelled, another 

 (hall take his place *. 



Sanction. 



If any person acts, fliall, or fhould act, against 

 these laws, or fhall hinder any one from acting ac- 

 cording to them, he fhall be immediately expel- 

 led from Arcadia, and his name fhall be erased by 

 the custode, in the presence oT the colleagues. 



If any thing in these laws fhould be found obscure, 

 or intricate, or not understood, the right of interpre- 

 ting or supplying fhall belong to the community of 

 the Arcadians, after having consulted the most ex- 

 perienced amongst the fhepherds according to the cus- 

 tom of our ancestors ; and whatever fhall be decreed, 

 or judged, fhall be carefully preserved by the ^kj-^oj ; 

 nor fhall it be introduced in the tables of the laws. 

 It fliall not be permitted to any one to introduce 

 new laws. 



Alphesiboeus Caryus, ctistos, thus requested the 

 general afsembly : May it be your will and your 

 command, O ! Arcadians, that what is comprehended 

 and ordered in these laws, for the government of our 

 community, fhall be, by common authority and com- 

 mand, deemed firm and establifhed for ever. 



And that the fliepherds from hence forth fliall be 

 bound by them for ever; so that whoever after 



• X. Q^o: praeJlorum Arcidicorum tituli totidem pas'ores, pastorum- 

 ^■e r.o.iiini sunco, inque maroii aut ex puncti locum alius sufBcicer. 



