 They were also to hold courts of justice and name the men who were to sit in juries.The "Sýslumenn" traditionally had large retinues of soldiers, but this practice was mostly abandoned after 1550, when the Danish King sent an army which succeeded in disarming most of Iceland as a preventative to rebellion.Currently the Icelandic district commissioners handle several types of public service in their districts still known as "sýsla", including collecting taxes outside of the capital area, handling civil marriages and issuing various permits.