1. The working organizations of the tribe were called comitia ( committees ). 2. The consul Quintus Metellus Celer proposed an identical bill to the comitia centuriata. 3. The Comitia Centuriata elected the praetors ( judicial magistrates ), the consuls. 4. Occasionally, the emperor would submit laws to the Comitia Tributa for ratification. 5. These " comitia cleri Gallicani " were not really plenary councils. 6. The Comitia Tributa elected the Quaestors ( financial magistrates ) and the patrician Curule Aedile. 7. It was Brutus who convened the comitia and asked that they revoke the king's imperium. 8. The " comitia tributa " comprised thirty-five tribes from Rome and the country. 9. The comitia ( the meeting place of for the assembly ) was blocked by a cordon of men. 10. Tacitus observes, " The comitia were transferred from the campus to the patres, " the senate.
