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CHAPTER 28 GOVERNMENT OF THE LEGION 155
this third ballot is also ineffectual, procedure is to be by way of
successive eliminations and re-votes until one candidate has
secured the necessary clear majority of the votes.
The fact that the election is in respect of officers of a
spiritual organisation is not to be held to justify casual
methods. The elections must be carried out in strict and
proper form, and with due regard to the secrecy of the
individual voting paper.
It is necessary that a complete record of the elections,
including the names of the proposers and seconders and the
number of votes received by each candidate (when there is
more than one candidate) be included in the minutes of the
meeting and be submitted to the next-highest council so that
ratification may be considered.

14. The representatives of a praesidium or of a council to its
next highest council shall be its officers.
15. Experience has shown the appointment of correspon -
dents to be the most effective way for a higher council to
fulfil its functions of superintendence of its distant affiliated
councils. The correspondent keeps in regular contact with the
council and from the minutes received monthly prepares a
report for presentation to the higher council meeting when
required. He attends the higher council meetings and takes
part in the proceedings but, unless he is a member of the
higher council, he has not the right to vote.

16. With the permission of a council, other persons,
whether members of the Legion or not, may attend the
meetings of that council in the capacity of visitors, but shall
not be entitled to vote there. Such persons are bound by the
confidentiality of the meeting.
17. The councils of the Legion shall be the Curia, the
Comitium, the Regia, the Senatus, and the Concilium
Legionis, and any other councils which may be set up under
the Statutes.
18. The Latin names of the various councils accord fairly
well with the functions which those councils fulfil.
In the Legion, Mary is Queen. She it is who summons her
legionary hosts to their glorious warfare and commands them