The Athenian Constitution   

the pigeon-holes the precise list of the sums which are to
be paid and
struck off on that day, and delivers it to the Receivers-General.
The rest are kept apart, in order that no sum may be struck
off before
it is paid.

Part 48

There are ten Receivers-General (Apodectae), elected by lot, one
from each tribe. These officers receive the tablets, and strike off
the instalments as they are paid, in the presence of the Council in
the Council-chamber, and give the tablets back to the public
clerk. If
any one fails to pay his instalment, a note is made of it on the
tablet; and he is bound to pay double the amount of the deficiency,
or, in default, to be imprisoned. The Council has full power by the
laws to exact these payments and to inflict this imprisonment. They
receive all the instalments, therefore, on one day, and portion the
money out among the magistrates; and on the next day they
bring up the
report of the apportionment, written on a wooden notice-board, and
read it out in the Council-chamber, after which they ask publicly in
the Council whether any one knows of any malpractice in reference to
the apportionment, on the part of either a magistrate or a private
individual, and if any one is charged with malpractice they take a
vote on it.
The Council also elects ten Auditors (Logistae) by lot from its
own members, to audit the accounts of the magistrates for each
prytany. They also elect one Examiner of Accounts (Euthunus) by lot
from each tribe, with two assessors (Paredri) for each
examiner, whose
duty it is to sit at the ordinary market hours, each opposite the
statue of the eponymous hero of his tribe; and if any one wishes to
prefer a charge, on either public or private grounds, against any
magistrate who has passed his audit before the law-courts, within
three days of his having so passed, he enters on a whitened
tablet his
own name and that of the magistrate prosecuted, together with the
malpractice that is alleged against him. He also appends his
claim for
a penalty of such amount as seems to him fitting, and gives in the
record to the Examiner. The latter takes it, and if after reading it
he considers it proved he hands it over, if a private case, to the
local justices who introduce cases for the tribe concerned, while if
it is a public case he enters it on the register of the
Thesmothetae. Then, if the Thesmothetae accept it, they bring the
accounts of this magistrate once more before the law-court, and the
decision of the jury stands as the final judgement.

Part 49

The Council also inspects the horses belonging to the state. If a
man who has a good horse is found to keep it in bad condition, he is
mulcted in his allowance of corn; while those which cannot keep up
or which shy and will not stand steady, it brands with a wheel on
the jaw, and the horse so marked is disqualified for service. It
also inspects those who appear to be fit for service as scouts, and
any one whom it rejects is deprived of his horse. It also
examines the
infantry who serve among the cavalry, and any one whom it rejects
ceases to receive his pay. The roll of the cavalry is drawn up by
the Commissioners of Enrolment (Catalogeis), ten in number,
elected by