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Powers of the Senate
In like manner the people on its part is far from
being independent of the Senate, and is bound to take its
wishes into account both collectively and individually. For
contracts, too numerous to count, are given out by the
censors in all parts of Italy for the repairs
or construction of public buildings; there
is also the collection of revenue from many
rivers, harbours, gardens, mines, and land—everything, in a
word, that comes under the control of the Roman government:
and in all these the people at large are engaged; so that there
is scarcely a man, so to speak, who is not interested either as
a contractor or as being employed in the works. The people dependent on the Senate For some.
purchase the contracts from the censors for themselves; and
others go partners with them; while others again go security
for these contractors, or actually pledge their property to the
treasury for them. Now over all these transactions the Senate
has absolute control. It can gra