Dressed with coloured livery, in past years they were prepared and discreet figures who carried out their role in the residence of rich and powerful men. Passed the time of crinolines and wigs, passed the Napoleonic cyclone and abandoned the following Restoration, the title of assistant underwent, what we could call, a professional reconversion: it started to identify bailiffs, "junior employees" in civic administration, that, on the occasion of festivities and in formal uniform, represented the honour escort of municipal gonfalon or carried out auxiliary functions during official manifestations or important events sponsored by the Municipality
At the town council the function of assistant was carried out until the end of the '50 of the last century with the trust of delicate functions of representation and support for bailiffs that worked at the cabinet office or the general secretary.
Besides being the honour escort of municipal gonfalon ( assignment that today is carried out by the agents of municipal police) assistant were supposed to constitute the honour retinue of "golden medals' pennon", the banner that in some ceremonies followed the city standard. The pennon, today still kept in San Giacomo Building, is decorated with the most important military valour recognitions confered by the State to Neapolitan citizens, protagonists of heroic deeds during war events which marked the last century.
