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There are ten Receivers elected by lot, one from each tribe; these take over the tablets and wipe off1 the sums paid in the presence of the Council in the Council-chamber, and give the tablets back again to the official clerk; and anybody that has defaulted in a payment is entered on them, and has to pay double the amount of his arrears or go to prison; and the legal authority to impose this fine and imprisonment is the Council.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 20, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1952.
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