Difference between revisions of "EDR103907 (Q10353)"

1. [It is hereby enacted] that it shall be lawful for [Imperator Caesar Vespasian Augustus] to (…), and to conclude treaties with whomsoever he shall wish, as it was lawful for the deified Augustus, for Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus and For Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus; 2. And that it shall be lawful for him to convoke the senate, to propose a matter for discussion, to transmit to it a question submitted to him and to procure a decree of the senate by the proposal of a billand a division of the house; 3. And that, when a meeting of the senate shall be held in accordance with his pleasure or authority, by his order or injunction, or in his presence, all proceedings at such a meeting shall be accounted valid and observance shall be due them, just as if the meeting of the senate had been announced and held in accordance with ordinary procedure; 4. And that, whatsoever candidates for office, power, authority, or charge of any matter he shall have recommended to the Roman senate and people, and to whomsoever he shall have given or promised his support, account shall be taken extraordinarily of them at any comitia whatsoever; 5. And that it shall be lawful for him to advance and promote the boundaries of the pomerium whenever he shall think it advantageous for the state, as it was lawful for Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus; 6. And that, whatsoever he shall think likely to promote the welfare of the state, the dignity of sacred and profane, public and private, interests, he shall have full right and authority to do and execute; as had the deified Augustus, Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus, and Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus; 7. And that, whatsoever laws and plebiscites were declared not to be binding on the deified Augustus, Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus, or Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus to do by any law or bill, it shall be lawful for Imperator Caesar Vespasian Augustus to do all those things; 8. And that, whatsoever has been done, executed, decreed or commanded by Imperator Caesar Vespasian Augustus, or by any person on his order or injunction, before the passage of this law, shall be legal and valid, just as if it had been done by the people or plebs. 9. If any person has done or shall have done anything on account of this law contrary to provisions of any law, bill, plebiscite, or decree of the senate, or if, on account of this law, he shall have left undone what, in accordance with any law, bill, plebiscite, or decree of the senate, he should do, it shall not be a crime on his part, nor shall he be liable to pay any penalty to the people on that account, nor shall any person have the right of entering suit or proceeding judicially on that ground, nor shall any person allow suit concerning it to be carried on before him.