(1) Their care of the state archives—originally possessed to a limited extent by the plebeian aediles[952]—was still continued, and they divided in some unknown way with the quaestors the custody of _senatus consulta_ in the _aerarium Saturni_.[953] (2) The _cura urbis_ involved a series of duties connected with the public sites, buildings, and functions of the city. The aediles had to see to the paving of the streets, to insist on individuals keeping the pathways before their own houses in repair, and to lease out at the public cost the renewal of such thoroughfares as were connected with public buildings.[954] They saw that all public places, such as roads and squares, were kept clean and clear of obstacles, partly from a sanitary motive, partly for the purpose of preventing the encroachments of private buildings on public sites.[955] They controlled the water-supply and prohibited private persons, with the connivance of the water-inspectors (_aquarii_), taking more than their fair share from the public conduits.[956] Their control of public buildings and temples was limited to inspection and supervision, for the repair of such buildings, at least when undertaken on a large scale, was leased out by the censors. Closely connected with this _aedium sacrarum procuratio_[957] was their control of the _cultus_ of the community, which obliged them to see that no foreign innovations crept into the primitive form of Roman worship.[958] Their police duties are shown by the edicts which they issued for keeping order at the public games,[959] and by their control of private places of utility or amusement to which the public were admitted, such as baths, taverns, and the like.[960] The aediles possessed the usual means of _coercitio_ for enforcing their decrees; they seized pledges (_pignora_) and imposed fines (_multae_).[961] When the latter surpassed the limit of the _multa suprema_, the case went on appeal to the people; the plebeian aediles defended their fines before the _concilium plebis_, the curule before the _comitia tributa_. From the _cura urbis_ also sprang an anomalous civil jurisdiction which was confined to the curule aediles; in one form of civil action which survived in their edict as codified under Hadrian—that, namely, arising from the damage done by wild beasts on the public roads—it was they who gave the _formula_ and appointed the _judex_ or _recuperatores_.[962]