Portreeve of Torrune

The Portreeve of Torrune is the top official appointed by the Archon to oversee regulation and taxation of all trade in and out of the city, as well as the prosecution of smugglers and others who defraud the tax-collectors. The Portreeve’s agents are the ones who inspect and assess all cargoes coming and going, and collect the tax-fees levied upon them.
Given the centrality of this trade and taxation to Torrune’s well-being, the Portreeve is as close to the city has as a “mayor” or chief magistrate; he answers directly to the Archon and is also empowered to regulate shops and trades, prosecute many types of criminals besides smugglers, disburse monies from the Archon’s treasury for maintenance of public works, promulgate his own edicts within certain limits, and so forth. He has several subordinate magistrates under him. He is sometimes referred to with the generic title “Consul”, used elsewhere in the Helvandrian lands to refer to an officer who has been appointed by a lord to administer a city much like a mayor, although in Torrune the Portreeve's own office does not actually have this title attached to it. 
The Portreeve and his subordinate magistrates conduct their official business (judging cases, meeting in council, arbitrating commercial disputes, hearing petitions and appeals, etc.) in the Court of the Portreeve, which is situated in the Low City on the south edge of the great market of Aulgu.
The current Portreeve of Torrune is XXXXXXXXXXX, who is a member of a branch of the House of Gedeira and thus a relative of the Archon (it is quite typical for Archons to appoint some trusted member of their own family to this important post). XXXXXXX is also a wealthy and prominent merchant in his own right, and his commercial success has certainly not suffered from attaining his powerful office.