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Supervision of Streets 451
urban quaestor or whoever shall be in charge of the treasury:
the contractor shall agree to maintain the street to the
satisfaction of him who shall have caused the contract for
the street to have been let out. The urban qujestor or
whoever shall be in charge of the treasury shall cause the
amount of money for which each street shall have been
let out to be given or assigned to the contractor, to whom
under the terms of the lease it should have been given,
or to his heir.
Any one before whose building a sidewalk shall run, Sidewalks,
shall keep the same properly paved with unworn stones ib. 13.
over the whole space in front of the building, to the satisfaction
of that aedile who under this law, shall have charge
of the streets in that district.
After the next Calends of January no one shall lead or
guide a vehicle during the day, between sunrise and the
twelfth hour of the day, in any streets which are or shall
be within the city of Rome, or within those outlying districts
which shall be built up continuously with the city,
except in the case of anything which ought to be brought
or conveyed for use in building temples of the immortal
gods or for use in carrying on public works, or unless any
of those things, for the demolition of which a contract
has been let at public expense, ought to be removed at the
public expense from the city or from the districts aforesaid;
and in these cases permission to lead or drive vehicles
shall be given under this law to specified persons for specified
reasons.
The use of
the streets,
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Nothing is enacted by this law by virtue of which Exceptions
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vehicles may not be led or driven in the city in the day- above given.
time for the following reasons and on the following days: /j. 15.
the days on which the Vestal virgins, the rex sacrorum, and Ancient
the flamens shall be obliged to ride in carriages within H^*"'^'^. 333 f-