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I suppose that you are all satisfied that he is amenable to the
indictment, as having introduced a law that contravenes existing statutes; but,
to show you the character of the laws he has contravened and of the law he has
introduced, the clerk will read to you, first his new law, and then the other
laws to which it is repugnant.“Law of
TimocratesDuring the first
presidency, namely, that of the Pandionid Tribe, and on the twelfth day of
that presidency, it was moved by Timocrates that, if the additional penalty
of imprisonment has been or shall hereafter be inflicted in pursuance of any
law or decree upon any person in debt to the treasury, it shall be competent
for him or for any other person on his behalf to nominate as sureties for
the debt such persons as shall be approved by vote of the Assembly, on an
undertaking to pay in full the amount in which he was indebted. The
Commissioners are required to put the question whensoever any debtor wishes
to nominate sureties.”
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