DECURIO

Lat. A decurion. In.the provincial administration of the Roman em• pire, the decurions were the chief men or off i.cial personages of the large towns. Taken as a body, the decurions of a city were charged with the entire control and administration of its internal affairs; having powers both magisterial and legislative. See 1 Spence, Eq. Jur. M. [s. 346]