\paperw4290 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 \fs22 In addition there were two Curulian Aediles who were responsible for the police, the provisioning of the city, and the
supervision of public festivals, and the Quaestors, originally eight in number, who were in charge of public finances.\par
Apart from these four one-year offices, there was a five-year one of great importance, the magistracy of the Censors. These were
two officials who had the task of compiling the census of cives, administrating the ager publicus (city lands), and keeping watch over the public morality of the cives and senatores. Given the delicacy of these functions, the Censors were selected from a
mong citizens of the highest reputation and had a longer period of office than the others.\par