Book XVII
Concerning Town Councils
De conciliorum urbem
Diocletian and Maximian, 24 April 293:
The laws do not prohibit illiterate persons from performing the duties of a Town Council member.
Diocletian and Maximian, 294:
If the magistrate should find that you are over seventy years, you may resign from the Town Council.
Julian, Antioch, 1 March 363:
If any member of a Town Council is parent to thirteen children, they may be granted permission to resign from the Town Council.
Valentinian II, Theodosius I and Arcadius, Milan, 15 April 391:
You must know that all the various guilds situated in a Town, as well as all of its subjects and residents are subject to the jurisdiction of the Town Council.