sanction the Law, under similar regulations, and with the consultive Vote of the Chamber.

L. The proposed Law shall be discussed in the Council of State, with the previous observations of the Ministers, who, in all cases, shall possess the right to give their opinions in the said Council.

LI. The Senate may suspend an Executive Act, or one seriously prejudicial or inexpedient, by referring it back to the Director. Should he reply, and persist, without satisfactorily explaining the objections, or defer his reply for a longer period than that fixed by the Senate, the Senate shall pronounce its veto, and convoke the National Chamber, in order to approve or suspend the same.

TITLE VIII.

OF THE MEANS OF RENDERING EFFECTIVE THE OTHER ATTRIBUTES OF THE SENATE.

LII. Each Senator shall be an Inspector, for the term of a Year, of some Tribunal, Magistracy, Administration, Corporate Body, or Publick Establishment, (except the Directory and the National Chamber :) he shall preside over its affairs one or more days in the month, but not at stated or fixed periods; he shall regulate their order, make his observations, and communicate the same to the Senate or the Government.

LIII. In order to decide upon the merit of Citizens, three Senators shall be especially charged with adopting and regulating the instructions and justifications necessary for that purpose; they shall render an account thereof to the Senate, and cause the same to be recorded in the General Register of Civick Merit, in which the Provinces shall be separated. There shall be a Secretary, solely for this Department.

LIV. All Functionaries, to whatever class or dignity they may belong, shall be bound to render a faithful account to the Municipalities, of the merit and service of each Citizen; which they will convey to their respective Political Chiefs, in order that the latter may be enabled to give documentary evidence thereof to the Senate as well as to the Directory. The same may be rendered by private Citizens.

LV. It is a crime deserving of publick accusation for any Functionary or intermediate Authority to omit giving such account, or remitting the same to the Senate.

LVI. The Senate, after consultation with the Directory, or being urged thereto by it, shall propose the deserving Citizens.

LVII. To make known those deserving in a high degree, (after consulting with the National Chamber, in order to obtain its assent,) it shall propose them for the approval or rejection of the Electoral Assemblies, at their periodical meetings.

LVIII. Every Senator shall, in each Year, visit some of the Provinces of the State, so that every 3 Years the whole may be visited by him.

He shall therein personally enquire into:

1. The merits and services of the Citizens.

2. Their moral and civil habits.

3. The observance of the Laws.

4. The fulfilment of the duties of Functionaries.

5. Publick Education and Instruction.

6. The Administration of Justice.

7. The collection of the Fiscal and Municipal Funds.

8. The training of the Militia.

9. The local Police, Charity, and Benevolence.

10. Religious conduct.

11. All other objects connected with his office.

LIX. He shall conform to the Instructions of the Senate, in what regards the attributes of that Magistracy, and to those of the Directory in what belongs to the Executive Power; his duties on these occasions are, to advise, instruct, and report upon the conduct of, the respective local Authorities, and to declare if there be ground for Legal Proceedings; transmitting, in the latter case, documentary evidence thereof to the Tribunals appointed by the Constitution and the Law; the Functionary being in the meanwhile suspended from his office.

TITLE IX.

OF THE NATIONAL CHAMBER.

IX. The National Chamber is a meeting of National Counsellors, in a temporary Assembly.

LXI. To become a National Counsellor it is necessary:

1. To be an eligible Citizen.

2. To be 30 Years of age.

3. To possess Property of the value of 1000 dollars at least. LXII. Counsellors shall not be answerable for their opinions. They shall remain in office during 8 Years, one of them being renewed in each Year. During the first 7 Years the lot shall decide who are to be renewed. The Members who have died, who may be incom petent, or have been dismissed, shall be considered as having been drawn by the lot, and shall be included in the number deficient.

LXIII. There shall not be less than 50, nor more than 200, whatever may be the extent of the population.

LXIV. The Counsellors shall meet in the same place as the Senate and Directory. The lot shall decide which of those who inhabit other Provinces shall attend the sittings when they take place in the Capital.

LXV. The National Chamber shall be legally and actually convoked by the Act of a suspensive veto of the Senate, or of the Supreme Director, when the sanction shall belong to him.

LXVI. A Minister of State, a Secretary of the Senate, and the Procurator General, shall cite the Chamber, in virtue of the Veto or Senatorial Decree, and shall preside at the ceremony of drawing lots for the Assembly. For that purpose they shall place the names of all the Counsellors living in the Capital, in an urn, out of which 25 shall be drawn by lot, who shall assemble immediately in the Hall of the Sessions, and as soon as they shall have elected their President, the former shall retire. In default of any of the Functionaries who may be drawn, the others shall be eligible for the Assembly.

LXVII. No National Chamber shall be formed unless four-fifths of those drawn by lot be assembled, and in default of that number, the same Chamber shall have a fresh drawing, by lot, and continue in Session, until it be completed.

LXVIII. A whole day shall not elapse between the pronouncing of the Veto and the assembling of the Chamber.

LXIX. The attributes of the National Chamber are:

1. To approve or reject the Laws which may be proposed, in the following Form only: "It ought to be sanctioned." "It ought not to be sanctioned."

2. To approve or reject a Declaration of War, measures of defence, taxes, and loans, although no Veto may have preceded; under the same Form as that for Laws.

3. To approve in the same Form the proposal of deserving Persons of an ordinary and of a superior description.

4. To nominate the Tribunal to protect the Liberty of the Press, the Censors, and the Commission for the trial of those Individuals.

LXX. The National Chamber shall have 3 Sittings for legislative consultations, with an intermission of 3 days between each of them. On the first, the Law shall be presented to them, when it shall hear the Orators of the Senate and the Directory, which shall consist of a Minister or Councillor of State and a Secretary of the Senate. On the second and third, it shall discuss the matter, and, on the last, shall

definitively decide upon it. The Orators shall not be present during

the discussion and decision.

LXXI. For Executive Acts it shall have 2 Sittings on two succeeding days. On the first, the Veto shall be presented to it, and it shall hear the Orators; on the second it shall decide; the discussion taking place on both days.

LXXII. On any extraordinary occasion the Chamber shall previously declare if there be urgency; it shall, however, decide within the time appointed, but not in less than two sittings, although the interval be but a few hours.

LXXIII. The Ministers of State, the Secretary of the Senate, and the National Procurator, shall not exercise the functions of Counsellors during their Office.

...LXXIV. The National Chamber shall be immediately annulled; - 1. If it assemble without a previous Veto, or for any other purpose than that clearly and distinctly appointed by the Constitution.

2. If, after meeting, it attempt to be a permanent Body.

M3If it extend its deliberations beyond the specifiek object proposed by the Veto, and designated by the Constitution.

54. If it attempt to alter, modify, or add to, the proposition submitted to it, or to extend its powers beyond the approval or rejection, of a Law, of an Executive Act, or of the declaration and report respecting meritorious Individuals.

LXXV. The Citizens of Chili shall meet in Electoral Assemblies, to proceed to the Elections, Nominations, and Censures established by the Constitution.

LXXVI. The meeting of Citizens in the number and form required by, the Constitution, for the purpose of electing, censuring, or nominating meritorious Individuals, as Citizens, qualified to fill, and be proposed for, the Magistracies of the State, agreeably to the Law, constitutes an Electoral Assembly.

LXXVII. An Electoral Assembly shall, for the present, be formed in every District, Parish, or Section of the Municipalities, which contains 200 voting Citizens; and, as the Population increases, an Assembly shall be formed for every Population which does not contain upwards of 400.

LXXVIII. Although there be one-fourth above or below the required number of Citizens in the whole of the Municipality, or in its respective Districts, Parishes, or Sections, an Electoral Assembly shail nevertheless be formed: but, should the excess or deficiency be greater, one district shall be joined to another of the same Municipality, A Manicipality shall have the right to form an Electoral Assembly, although the number of its Citizens be less than that required for the ordinary Assemblies.

LXXIX. The Assembly shall proceed as a National Electoral Assembly when it elects or censures Functionaries of the Nation; and as a Provincial Assembly when they belong to a Department.

LXXX. All Chilians shall be Members of the Electoral Assemblies, who are possessed of a legal certificate of Citizenship without any other qualification. sad tosoma

8 LXXXI. A Regidor, or, in his absence, a Prefect or Inspector, shall convoke the Electoral Assembly to meet at the place appointed..

LXXXII, A list shall be placed on the table of each Assembly, of the Citizens who compose it, who must be matriculated in the Gene. ral Register of their Municipality.

LXXXIII. In the presence of the Citizens assembled at the hour and on the day appointed by Law, there shall be placed in the urn the names of those of the Assembly who are inscribed in the Municipal Register. The ballot shall proceed until 12 Individuals, who can read and write, be drawn; the first 6 of whom shall be the Committee of Scrutiny, and the remaining 6 their substitutes.

LXXXIV. The Scrutineers being appointed, the convoking Functionary alone shall have the inspection of the Police.

LXXXV. The Scrutineers shall elect a President and Secretary from amongst themselves, to whom the convoking Functionary shall deliver the lists of the Elections, and the National and Provincial censures, containing the number of Individuals who are to be balloted.

LXXXVI. The Ballot shall decide which half of the Individuals composing the Assembly shall retire, without reference to the Absentees, or Members who may be unable to attend.

LXXXVII. The List of Individuals drawn shall be immediately posted up in the most publick places of the District, and on the following day, between 6 o'clock in the Morning and 6 in the Evening, the suffrages of each Citizen shall be taken, who, at the time of voting, shall receive the List, and may retire alone to a convenient spot, (accompanied by the Secretary, if he be unable to read) and indicate upon the List each Person whom he desires to elect or censure. The Secretary shall be sworn to secrecy, and to the faithful discharge of this duty.

LXXXVIII. The Electoral Lists shall contain the names of the Persons legally qualified for each of the Employments which are to be filled up in these Elections; the Names of the Functionaries subjected to censure; and the Names of those proposed as meritorious in the highest degree, which shall be distinguished by a mark attached to each Name.

LXXXIX. The Citizens who remain to vote, after the drawing by Lot, and other arrangements, whatever be their number, shall form a Legal Assembly.

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XC. All doubts shall be decided by the Scrutineers, on the first day, without appeal (unless it affect their personal responsibility). their votes be equal, that of the President shall be decisive.

XCI. As soon as the voting is concluded, it shall be made publick: and four legalized Copies thereof shall be prepared, and transmitted to the Municipality, the Chief of the Department, the Directory, and the Senate. The urn which contains the votes shall be kept in a secure place, locked with two keys, one of which shall be kept by the President of the Scrutineers, and the other by the Political Chief, until the Votes be promulgated by the Directory.