The lex Acilia, described above as a plebiscite of M’. Acilius Glabrio, colleague of C. Gracchus in 122,[2325] took the place of the lex Iunia of 126,[2326] and is to be identified with a lex repetundarum extensive fragments of which are preserved in an inscription.[2327] Whereas earlier laws on the subject rendered governors of provinces, and perhaps administrative officers in Italy, alone liable to punishment, the Acilian statute includes magistrates and senators and the sons of both as well as the holders of promagisterial imperium.[2328] The crime consists in taking in any one year from those whom the law is designed to protect—from the allies, Latins, provincials, and exterior nations under the sway or in the friendship of the Roman people[2329]—by gift, seizure, compulsion, or other illegal means money or property exceeding a specified sum, which a lacuna in the inscription leaves unknown, but which is supposed to be four thousand sesterces.[2330] Holders of magistracies and imperia cannot be brought to trial for the crime till after the expiration of their terms,[2331] on the general principle which exempts from prosecution those who are engaged in the service of the state.[2332] The praetor qui inter peregrinos ius dicit within ten days after the passage of the statute, and in future within ten days after entering upon his office, is to choose for this court four hundred and fifty persons with the qualifications for jury service described above in connection with the Sempronian judiciary law. From this group the accused is to reject under oath his kinsmen within a specified degree and his sodales. The accuser is to draw from the remainder a hundred persons, taking oath that he has chosen no kinsman within a specified degree or sodalis. The accused rejects fifty of the hundred, and the remaining fifty constitute the jury for trying the case.[2333] The rules of procedure in the trial and the amount of liability of the accused in the event of conviction are given. The accuser, if an alien, is granted as a reward for a successful prosecution the Roman citizenship for himself and his born sons and grandsons. If he is a Latin and does not want the citizenship, he is given instead the right of appeal.[2334] Probably the law contained provisions for the punishment of corruption in the patrons of the accusers and in the praetor and jurors.[2335]