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450 The Revolution
Care of the
streets.
Julian Munic.
Law, 7.
This law was
probably
passed in 46
B.C. It is
preserved in
au inscription.
The
translation
is by Dr.
R. R. Blews.
Division of
the city
among
the aediles.
lb 8.
Contracts for
maintaining
the streets.
lb. II.
V. The Municipal Law of Julius Caesar
With regard to those streets which are or shall be in the
city of Rome or within a radius of one mile from the city
of Rome,—wherever this zone shall be continually built
up,—the owner of any building before which any such
street shall run, shall maintain the same to the satisfaction
of the aedile, to whom this part of the city shall have been
assigned in accordance with this law; and that sedile shall
see to it that all persons, before whose buildings any
streets run, which they shall be obliged by this law severally
to maintain, shall severally maintain the same to his
satisfaction; and he shall see to it that no water remains
standing in any such place which would hinder the public
from the convenient use of the street.
The curule aediles and the plebeian aediles who are now
in office, and whoever after the passing of this law shall
have been made or created aediles or shall have entered
upon this office, shall, within the next five days after they
shall have been elected or shall have entered upon this
office,
decide either by agreement or by lot in what part
of the city each one of them shall have charge of the repairing
and paving of the streets in the city of Rome or
within a mile of the city of Rome, and shall have supervision
of that work.
In those places which shall be in the
district thus assigned to each one of the aediles in accordance
with this law, he shall have supervision of the
repairing and maintenance of the streets, as shall be required
in accordance with this law.
In the case of a street for the maintenance of which a
contract in conformity with this law must be let, the aedile
whose duty it shall be to let the contract for the maintenance
of this street shall let out the same through the