Archæologiæ Græcæ, or, The antiquities of Greece by John Potter ...

Laws which concern Magistrates.

NONE shall be Magistrates but they, who have competent E∣states.

The Election of Magistrates shall be by Beans.

It shall be punishable with Death to pass two Suffrages for the same Candidate.

The Archons shall be created by the People.

No one shall bear the same Office twice, or enter on two several the same Year.

All Magistrates, that are elected by Suffrages, Surveyors of publick Works, and they, who have any Authority in the City upward of thirty days, with those, who preside over the Courts of Judicature, shall not enter on their respective Offices, till they have undergone the accustom'd Examination, and after the expiration of those Offices, they shall give an account of the discharge of their Trust before the Scribe, and Logistae, as other Magistrates are oblig'd to do.

This shall be the manner: So much I receiv'd from the Publick, so much I laid out, or in the reverse.

Such, as have not made up their accounts, shall expend none of their money in Divine uses, nor be Patrons, or Witnesses; nor shall they have license to travel, bear another Office, or have the honour of a Crown conferr'd on them.

It's Death for any one in debt to be invested with a publick Trust.

It's also Death to attempt Usurpation.

Let him be out-law'd, who shall continue in his Magistracy after the dissolution of Democratical government, whereupon, it shall be lawful for any one to kill such a Person, and make seisure of his Goods.