Imperial rescript on cession of property and application to a strategos TM 15984Oxyrhynchos229 - 235

[...] [...] you ceded [...] [...] [...] it is not to our treasury that the cession should be made but to the one [nominated?] to the liturgy [...] [...] you, who, taking over your property, will provide your civic assessment and will fulfil the liturgy. For our treasury does not aim at such cessions. Your civic status will suffer no harm from this, nor will you be maltreated in your person. Posted in Alexandria, year 8, Mecheir. To Aurelius Leonides, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, from Aurelius Thonis son of Ptolemaios, mother [...], from the same city. Since Aurelius [Heliodoros], amphodogrammateus, by the [list he submitted], serving in the liturgy for the coming [year ...], on the past day nominated me for the collectorship of grain dues of the katoikoi of Thmoisepho in the toparchy of Tholthis, and I am altogether unable to bear the office, I cede whatever (property) of mine he may find, [and I ask], submitting to you this petition concerning the matter, to which I have prefixed the divine constitution, that you send a copy through one of your attendants to Aurelius Heliodoros, so that, at the risk attached to his nomination and in accordance with the unassailable provisions, he may take note that he must undertake the office on my behalf by means of whatever of mine he may hold [...] year [...] of Imperator Caesar [Marcus Aurelius] Severus [Alexander] [...]