AE 1969/70, 0287 (Q9917)

(...) that it be not allowed for any duumvir [= the highest municipal office-holder] to act out of order in order that someone is adopted as patron, nor to order envoys that the bronze tablet be brought to him, by which this man is co-opted as a citizen into the community (res publica) of Emporiae, except if the assessments are taken from the tablet on which the right of citizenship of Emporiae is granted to the patron himself, his sons and daughters, and to his children and descendants.