The responsibility of supervising sumptuary laws was initially divided among several different magistracies, until the creation in 1476 of a board of three officials, the savi alle pompe (lit.
This office was short-lived, however, and after its abolition the tasks were again distributed to various other magistracies, including the Procurators of Saint Mark.
[1] In 1635 four assistant sopraprovveditori were appointed temporarily for the revision of the legislation, which had become too complex, and again three in 1644, for the same purpose.
[1] As the avogadori de comùn frequently intervened in the magistrato alle pompe's sentences, in 1652 a special board (collegio) of seven nobles was established to examine them.
It passed its last laws in 1749, and thereafter continued to exist by force of tradition, busying itself with minor tasks such as decoration of the city or fire-fighting.