Semprōnia lex

, de magi strati bus , by Caius Sempronius Gracchus the tribune, A.U.C. 630, ordained that no person who had been legally deprived of a magistracy for misdemeanours should be capable of bearing an office again. This law was afterwards repealed by the author.――Another, de civitate , by the same, A.U.C. 630. It ordained that no capital judgment should be pa ed over a Roman citizen without the concurrence and authority of the senate. There were also some other regulations, included in this law.――Another, de com it i is , by the same, A.U.C. 635. It ordained that, in giving their votes, the centuries should be chosen by lot, and not give it according to the order of their cla es.――Another, de com it i is , by the same, the same year, which granted to the Latin allies of Rome the privilege of giving votes at elections, as if they were Roman citizens.――Another, de provinciis , by the same, A.U.C. 630. It enacted that the senators should be permitted before the a embly of the consular comitia , to determine as they pleased the particular provinces which should be proposed to the consuls, to be divided by lot, and that the tribunes should be deprived of the power of interposing against a decree of the senate.――Another, called agraria prima , by Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus the tribune, A.U.C. 620. It confirmed the lex agraria Licinia , and enacted that all such as were in po e ion of more lands than that law allowed, should immediately resign them, to be divided among the poor citizens. Three commi ioners were appointed to put this law into execution; and its consequences were so violent, as it was directly made against the nobles and senators, that it cost the author his life.――Another, called agraria alter a , by the same. It required that all the ready money which was found in the treasury of Attalus king of Pergamus, who had left the Romans his heirs, should be divided among the poorer citizens of Rome, to supply them with all the various instruments requisite in husbandry, and that the lands of that monarch should be farmed by the Roman censors, and the money drawn from thence should be divided among the people.――Another, frumentaria , by Caius Sempronius Gracchus. It required that a certain quantity of corn should be distributed among the people, so much to every individual, for which it was required that they should only pay the trifling sum of a semi is , and a triens .――Another, de usurâ , by Marcus Sempronius the tribune, A.U.C. 560. It ordained that, in lending money to the Latins and the allies of Rome, the Roman laws should be observed as well as among the citizens.――Another, de judicibus , by the tribune Caius Sempronius, A.U.C. 630. It required that the right of judging, which had been a igned to the Senatorian order by Romulus, should be transferred from them to the Roman knights.――Another, militar is , by the same, A.U.C. 630. It enacted that the soldiers should be clothed at the public expense, without any diminution of their usual pay. It also ordered that no person should be obliged to serve in the army before the age of 17.