Four questors (quaestores classici) were established to watch over the execution of the orders of the Senate, the equipment of the fleet, and the collection of the farm-rents.
Every year twenty questors were to be named, which would ensure the recruitment of the Senate, since this office gave entrance to it.
The people appointed yearly two consuls and seven praetors to go and govern these distant countries; but generally these high offices were attainable only by those who had been questors or ediles.
With an eye upon that, the questors proposed at the very first session, that the parliament organize a police force of its own, paid for out of the private budget of the National Assembly itself, and wholly independent of the Police Prefects.
As this fine is not defined by law, the judges andquestors display great earnestness and avarice in exacting it, through hatred of our holy religion.
Four times in the year questors are appointed to explore the Catholics throughout the whole kingdom, and impose fines on all who absent themselves from the heretical sermons and communion.
The special instructions drawn up by the Questors prohibited the entrance of any armed force other than the regiment on duty.
Nevertheless, immediately after the sitting the Questors sent for the Special Commissary of Police of the Assembly, President Dupin being present.
The Questors were similarly allotted, Monsieur Baze to the Sieur Primorin, and General Leflô to Sieur Bertoglio.
The Questors were officers elected by the Assembly, whose special duties were to keep and audit the accounts, and who controlled all matters affecting the social economy of the House.
When theQuestors pressed him further, President Dupin, exclaiming "Bah!
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