Call for Vote on Consul and to Approve two Laws

Issued by Consul Decius Iunius Palladius 8/23/99.

The auspices having been taken and the omens being good, I hereby announce that the Comitia Centuriata will be convened three days from now, at 2300 (11:00 PM) on Thursday, August 26, 1999, to vote on the following items:

1. Filling the vacant seat of consul.

Candidates: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

2. To vote on the following law:

Lex Iunia de Magistratuum Aetate

This law shall regulate the minimum age a person may hold specific magistracies.

I. No person may assume the office of censor or consul until he or she has reached the age of 30.

II. No person may assume the office of praetor or tribune of the plebs until he or she has reached the age of 25.

III. No person may assume the office of quaestor, aedile, or be appointed to the position of provincial governor, until he or she has reached the age of 21.

IV. Any person holding one of the aforementioned positions at the time of the passage of this law shall be exempt from its provisions for the remainder of his or her current term.

V. An exemption to this law may be granted to a person by the approval of both censors and a senatus consultum approved by a two thirds majority vote.

3. To vote on the following law:

Lex Iunia de Temporum Definitione Consulatuum

This law shall regulate the amount of times a person may hold the office of consul during a specified time period.

I. No person shall hold the office of consul for two years consecutively, or in any five year period, hold the office of consul more than twice.