This arrangement continued ( except for the year 43 BC, when no quaestors were chosen ) until 28 BC, when Augustus transferred the aerarium to two praefecti aerarii, chosen annually by the Senate from ex-praetors.
22.
This role was then institutionalized in the position of the " a rationibus ", who was paid a salary by the " aerarium " and given an office in the Palatine bureaus, under Tiberius.
23.
The two Urban Quaestors ( " quaestores urbani " ) had authority over the treasury in Rome ( " aerarium Saturni " ), which functioned as a depository for both state funds and official documents.
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However, more modern archaeologists have concluded that the piece might have been intended as nothing more than scrap metal by the Romans at the time that it was lost, and was awaiting being recycled when the aerarium burnt down.
25.
All the public money was paid into the " aerarium ", which was entirely under the jurisdiction of the senate; and all disbursements were made by order of this body, which employed the quaestors as its officers.
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It also enacted " ne clam aerario legem inferri liceret ", meaning that a copy of any proposed statute must be deposited before witnesses at the aerarium before it was brought to the comitia for final approval and made law.
27.
The treasury of the prefect was called the'arca .'His powers were directed toward control of the new " sacrum aerarium ", the result of the combination of the " aerarium " and the " fiscus ".
28.
The treasury of the prefect was called the'arca .'His powers were directed toward control of the new " sacrum aerarium ", the result of the combination of the " aerarium " and the " fiscus ".
29.
Tax revenues went into a fund to pay military retirement benefits ( " aerarium militare " ), along with those from a new sales tax ( " centesima rerum venalium " ), a 1 tax % on goods sold at auction.
30.
Initially, this process of distribution seemed to work, although the legal technicality did not disguise the supremacy of the emperor or his often used right to transfer funds back and forth regularly from the " aerarium " to the " fiscus ".
