In the first place the tributum, or property-tax, had to be paid by each citizen according to the amount of his property registered in the census, and, accordingly, the regulation of this tax naturally fell under the jurisdiction of the censors.

Also, the censors were in charge of the leasing out of conquered land for public use and auction.

In this manner, the censors gradually assumed at least nominal complete superintendence over the whole public and private life of every citizen.

This part of the censors ' office invested them with a peculiar kind of jurisdiction, which in many respects resembled the exercise of public opinion in modern times ; for there are innumerable actions which, though acknowledged by every one to be prejudicial and immoral, still do not come within the reach of the positive laws of a country ; as often said, " immorality does not equal illegality ".

The latter course seems to have been seldom adopted ; the ordinary mode of inflicting the punishment was simply this: the censors in their new lists omitted the names of such senators as they wished to exclude, and in reading these new lists in public, quietly omitted the names of those who were no longer to be senators.

It was this authority of the Roman censors which eventually developed into the modern meaning of " censor " and " censorship "— i. e., officials who review published material and forbid the publication of material judged to be contrary to " public morality " as the term is interpreted in a given political and social environment.

This auctioning was called venditio or locatio, and seems to have taken place in the month of March, in a public place in Rome The terms on which they were let, together with the rights and duties of the purchasers, were all specified in the leges censoriae, which the censors published in every case before the bidding commenced.

In one important department the censors were entrusted with the expenditure of the public money, though the actual payments were no doubt made by the quaestors.

The censors had the general superintendence of all the public buildings and works ( opera publica ), and to meet the expenses connected with this part of their duties, the senate voted them a certain sum of money or certain revenues, to which they were restricted, but which they might at the same time employ according to their discretion.

The repairs of the public works and the keeping of them in proper condition were let out by the censors by public auction to the lowest bidder, just as the vectigalia were let out to the highest bidder.

Besides keeping existing public buildings and facilities in a proper state of repair, the censors were also in charge of constructing new ones, either for ornament or utility, both in Rome and in other parts of Italy, such as temples, basilicae, theatres, porticoes, fora, walls of towns, aqueducts, harbours, bridges, cloacae, roads, etc.

The aediles had likewise a superintendence over the public buildings, and it is not easy to define with accuracy the respective duties of the censors and aediles, but it may be remarked in general that the superintendence of the aediles had more of a police character, while that of the censors were more financial in subject matter.

He was politically isolated, cut out of the public debate by censors, and never again received any official assignment.

" Coward also needed to convince the censors that the sinking of the ship was a crucial scene and not the threat to public morale they perceived it to be.

This and other graphic pictures were given approval by the Office of War Information's censors, in part because President Roosevelt feared that the American public were becoming complacent about the war.

This new edition of the film, re-titled as Io, Caligola clocked in at 133 minutes and contains material not present in any other versions of the film, but the Italian censors had it cut down to only 86 minutes ; after a public backlash, the film was restored to 123 minutes.

RAI censors felt that the song, which was titled " Sì " ( Yes ), and which contained lyrics constantly repeating the aforementioned word could be accused of being subliminal messaging and a form of propaganda to influence the Italian voting public to vote ' yes ' in the referendum (' yes ' to repeal the law that allowed divorce ).

When he left the hospital, he found that he had been expelled from public school teaching because of his leftist politics and because the regime's censors considered his songs strongly subversive.

The public mistrusted plays that passed the censors.

Although it was well received by the audience, local censors feared that the revealing costumes and provocative dances might compromise public morals.

It was the public, not the censors, who found it unacceptable ".

Hence the expression praeteriti senatores (" senators passed over ") is equivalent to e senatu ejecti ( those removed from the senate ).</ br > In some cases, however, the censors did not acquiesce to this simple mode of proceeding, but addressed the senator whom they had noted, and publicly reprimanded him for his conduct.

* Cato the Elder, along with his colleague, Lucius Valerius Flaccus, is elected censors in Rome.

Despite serious initial problems with the Austrian censors who had control over northern Italian theatres at the time, the opera had a triumphant premiere and is considered by many to be the first of the operatic masterpieces of Verdi's middle-to-late career.

" It is said that the censors felt the original version was too risqué.

This meant to accept certain boundaries of experimentation, that is, the family-friendly performance and politically neutral lyrics favoured by censors.

The censors of the College of Physicians summoned him to appear before them ; but it is not known with what outcome.

He was chosen by every new pair of censors ( that is, every 5 years ).

Today, modern audiences have no difficulties with accepting his accent, as it is compared to Chico Marx of The Marx Brothers but the censors were less trustworthy of the melting-pot audience of America then.

It obfuscates data sources and flows in order to protect operators and users of the network by preventing them ( and, by extension, observers such as censors ) from knowing where data comes from and where it is stored.

As a condemnation of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the piece is particularly representative of the political responsibilities that Shostakovich felt he had for the state, regardless of the conflicts and criticisms he faced throughout his career with Soviet censors and Joseph Stalin.

Gabbar's death scene, and the scene in which the imam's son is killed were cut from the film by the Censor Board, as was the scene in which Thakur's family is killed, as the censors claimed that there are rules about people taking the law into their own hands and not being punished for it ; this was not permitted as it may corrupt naive viewers.

Roman conservatism finds succinct expression in an edict of the censors from 92 BCE, as preserved by the 2nd-century historian Suetonius: “ All new that is done contrary to the usage and the customs of our ancestors, seems not to be right .” But because the mos maiorum was a matter of custom, not written law, the complex norms it embodied evolved over time.

However, her navel is glimpsed in a few season four and season five episodes, much to the dislike of the censors.

However, this chapter was not accepted by the censors and Dostoyevsky excised it from the original version, in which Bishop Tikhon is briefly mentioned by Shatov, but does not appear.

They then compile a report to point out how the said software is discriminatory and restrictive of free speech / free access in what it censors.

The use of improvisation on top of canovaccio enabled the avoidance of censorship because censors cannot censor that which is not written.

Because of the story's occasional macabre and potentially frightening content, it has become a regular target of the censors and is # 56 on the American Library Association's top 100 list of most frequently challenged books.

For example, in the first chapter it requires Yossarian to sign his name to letters that he censors while he is confined to a hospital bed.

The cause for concern is that Boswell's original Life " corrects " many of Johnson's quotations, censors many of the more vulgar comments, and largely ignores Johnson's early years.

The episode " The Intervention " was also almost banned, as the censors were wary about the episode glorifying alcoholism ( since the story focused on Titus convincing his father, Ken, to drink again since Ken's sobriety is making him boring ).