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

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Archæologiæ Græcæ, or, The antiquities of Greece by John Potter ...
Author
Potter, John, 1673 or 4-1747.
Publication
Oxford :: Printed ... for Abel Swall ...,
1697.
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Greece -- Antiquities.
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"Archæologiæ Græcæ, or, The antiquities of Greece by John Potter ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A55523.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.

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Laws treating of Duties, and Offices.

THE Archons shall appoint in the Assembly by Lots a certain num∣ber of Flute-players to be at the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, or publick Dancings.

No Stranger shall joyn in a Dance with a Chorus, if he do, the Cho∣ragus shall be Fin'd a thousand Drachms.

Let it be lawfull to inform against a Stranger to the Archon before his entrance into the Theater.

A stranger, if indicted by a 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 for dancing, shall be Fin'd fifty Drachms, and a thousand, if he persist after prohibition.

Those Dancers, who are disfranchis'd, are to be drove of the Stage.

Sixteen Men are to be chosen out of all the publick Companies, to contribute equally towards the building a Man of War, which service they are to engage in from twenty-five years of Age to forty.

The qualification for a Trierarch is, that he be worth ten Talents, ac∣cording to which estimation he is to be chosen, but if his Estate is ra∣ted more, let him build Ships equivalent, yet at most but three, with a Skiff; they, who are not worth so much, shall be join'd together so many of them, till their Estates make up the summ.

The Trierarchs, and Overseers of the Navy shall be commission'd to register their Names, who, being of the same 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, are indebted to the Common-wealth for Ship-rigging, for which they shall sue them.

He, that owes rigging, shall either give it, or be main-priz'd.

All Trierarchs elect shall betake themselves to the Ships, they are constituted over.

All Trierarchs are to render an account of their Administration.

There shall be yearly Appointments for the exchange of Offices, where he, that shall be design'd a 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, shall be exempted from serving, if he can produce any vacant person richer than himself, and if the person produc'd confess that he is more wealthy than the other, he shall be put in the other's place among the Three-hundred, but if he denies it, let them change Estates.

His Lands and Tenements shall be inspected into, who shall offer himself in the Exchange.

They, who do quit their own Estates for those of their neighbours, shall be oblig'd by Oath to discover them in this Form.

I'll fairly and honestly make known the estimate of all my Possessions,

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except such, as consist in those silver Mines, that the Laws exact no Duties from.

Three days shall be allow'd for those, who are to make exchange of their Estates, to produce them.

No one shall be compell'd to exhibit his Estate, which lies in Mines.

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