Decree of Halai Aixonides prescribing an audit procedure, 368/7 BC
IG II2 1174 Date: 368/7 BC
Euthemon[1] proposed: in order that the common resources may be secured
for the demesmen, and that the demarchs and treasurers
may render accounts ,
the demesmen shall decide, that the demarchs
5 and the treasurers shall deposit the account of the receipts and expenses into the
box each month, since
those of the archonship of Nausigenes (368/7) are also themselves voluntarily depositing the account each
10 month; and shall render their accounts
for the last year before the month of Metageitnion,
from the accounts from the box ,
and not from other accounts; and to stand a stele
in the agora, having inscribed this
15 decree (on it); and the demarch shall administer an oath to the
auditor and his deputies in
accordance with the decree inscribed in the agora;
and if . . . and they do not perform the audit in accordance with
20 this decree . . .