The Law of the Florentine Catasto of 1427

...from within the city, of whatever dignity, quality, or condition they may be, even if they belong to the three major offices—that is, the Priors of the Guilds and the Gonfaloniere of Justice The Priors and the Gonfaloniere formed the Signoria, the supreme executive council of Florence. of the said people and commune, the Gonfaloniers of the Companies of the People Leaders of the neighborhood-based citizen militias., and the Twelve Good Men An advisory body to the Signoria. of the said commune—whose term of office, in whole or in part, coincides with the time of the aforementioned year.

9. — If they hold an office at the time of the election, they shall lose it.

Furthermore, if it should happen that any of the said ten elected officials had already been appointed in any way to any office within the city at the time of the election, let it be understood that the said elected person is, immediately upon the election being made, removed from the office they were in, or to which they were appointed. Their successor must then be appointed according to the procedure established for the person removed, or according to the form of the regulations of the said commune.

And if the person who was removed had not yet begun their term of office and had been appointed through the extraction The Florentine system of drawing names from leather bags (borse) to fill government positions., they must be returned to the bag from which they were drawn.

10. — How the successor of anyone who leaves office is to be elected.

Furthermore, in the place of each of those ten who might be removed, or if the said office should become vacant for any reason, a successor must be elected and appointed according to the same procedure as their predecessor, from the same quarter and administrative group, and the same prohibitions and bans must be observed.

11. — How the first catasto is ordered.

Furthermore ^1) that the said ten officials of the catasto The catasto was a revolutionary system of wealth declaration and taxation introduced in Florence in 1427 to ensure a fairer distribution of the tax burden. and two-thirds of their number—including those who are absent and not summoned, or those present and dissenting—may, are bound to, and must, within the timeframe of one year from their election, have ordered or carried out...