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cliArT ER FT. OF ELF.CTIONS.

90. The nomination of Deputies and Senators for the General
Assembly, and of Members of General Councils of provinces, shall
be made by indirect elections. The great mass of active citizens
assembled together in parish meetings shall name the electors of
provinces, and these name the Representatives of the none's' and of
the province.
91. Those have a right to vote in the primary elections who are,
first, Brazilian citizens who enjoy their political rights ; second, na-
turalized strangers.
92. Those are excluded from voting in the primary Assemblies
who are, Ist, under the age of 2a years (married men, naval and
military officers, bachelors, and clerks in Parted orders, who shall
be 21 years old, shall have this right as if they hail attained their
25th year). 2. Semi under the father's roof, not having a public
employment. 3. /411-ants (not including, however, o(6ce-keepers,
cash-keepers in commercial houses, the servants of royal residences,
who no longer bear the white riband, and the overseers of farms
and manufactories) 4. Alonks, and all those living in a secluded
community. 5. Those whit nave not an annul income of 100
milreas (600 francs), either by their goods, industry, their corn.
coerce, or employment.
93. Those who cannot vote in the primary meetings of parishes
cannot be elected themselves, nor vote for the nomination of any
elective authority, national or local.
94. AU those who can vote in the parochial meetings may be
Electors, and vote at the elect•on of Deputies, Senator.. and 51ern-
hers of the Councils orprodoces ; except I. Those who have not
a net income of 200 mamas (I,l:00 francs), from Ninth(' property,
their industry. commerce, or employment. 2. Persons enfran.
ebis.-d. 3 Condemned crimsnals.
95. All who can be electors are also capable of being
Deputies, with the exception, I. Of those who have not
400 milieu, (2.400 francs), net income, according to Articles 91. and
94. 2. Naturalized strong, rs. 3. Those who do nut profess the re
of the State.
96. AU Brazilian citizens, in whatever place they may be, are
eligible in every electoral district as Deputies or Senators, even
;bough they have not been horn or resicicil there.
97. A regulating law shall determine the mode of electing and
the number of Deputies—a duz proportion between their number I
and the population of the empire being observed.

TITLE •. OF TILE EMPEROR.

CRAFTER I. or TRE XIODERATIVE POWER.

90. The motletative power is the principle of political organiza-
tion. It is delegated to the Emperor alone, as nuprente chief of the
nation and its first renrestntative„ that he may incessantly watch
over the main;enance, the cqu.librium, and la.a.tiony, of other poll.
tics! powers.
PJ. The person of the Erperor is inviolable and sacred. He is
not sebject to 'my sort of responsibility.
teo ilia titles are Conatimtional E‘ercror and Perpetual De-
fender of the Liberties ot Brazil. lie is styled his Imperial 31a.
jetty.
101. The Emperor everciaes the power of Moderative. I. In
nominating the Senators contOrniably to Article J 3. 2. In convok-
ing the General Assembly Extraordinary in the interval of sessions,
when th-: good of the empire requires it. 3. In sanctioning the de.
aces and resolutions ot the General Assembly, to give them the
force of a law, Art. 62.. 1. In approving and suspenilliat prov
sionallv the rewthltiOns of Provisional Councils, Attirles lib
and 87. L. In proroguing and postponing the Hence As.
sembly, and in dioselring the Chamber of Deputies wlten tits
safety of the State reptires it ; and in immediately eanvo%in4
another to replace it. lj In appointing and dismissing a: will the
Ministers of the State. 7. In suspending the 31agisuats in the
cave of :Irt. 131. 8. In remitting or nittigsting the rit••Winient
pronounced spina cairns by the tribunals. 9. I. ntiog in
cases of urgency an amnesty, whieli humanity as well as the ;.00d
of the B:ate may require.

cm tiTrit 11. OF Tim EXECUTIVE POWER.

Art. 102. The Emperor is the heed of the Executive Power, and
he exercises it by his 31ii.is.trscf State. It. principal prerogatives
ore-Id. To convoke the New General Assembly in ordinary on
the 3d of June of the third year of the existing Legislature. 2. To
name the Bishops and to provide fur ecclesiastical benefice.. 3. To
name 31agirtrates. 4. To provide for other civil and political em.
ployments. 3. To name the Commanders both by sea and land,
and to change them when the interest of the service requires it.
O. To name Ambassadors and other diplomatic and commercial
agent,. 7. To direct the political negotiations with fireign na.
tions. 8. To make treaties of alliance, offensive and detimsive, of
subsidies, of conmerre, bringing them atter they are concluded to
the cognizance of the General Assembly, so far us the seety and
interest of the State may permit. If the males concluded in tiioe
of peace stipulated the cession or change of a part of the territory
of the E,npire, or of a possession to wiiieh the Empire has a tight,
they carnot be rotated without having bven approved by the
General Assembly. 0. To declare war and mike peace, making
to the Assembly communications compatible with the interest and
security of the State. 10. To grant leAtrs of naturalization under
the forms of the law. 11. To confer titles, honours, military or-
ders, and other distinctions, in compensation for services rendered
to the State. The pecuniary grants w2l be alwas submitted
tattle approbation of the Assembly. unless where they have been
alrezdy stipulated for by law. 12. To publish decrees, instructions,
and regulatbos for the &Hired execution of the laws.-
13. To decree the application of the MMs voted by the
Assembly to the different branches of the public admini-
stration. 14. To grant or refuse his approbation to decrees of coup.
cils, a d apostolical letter and other ecclesiastical ennatibitions, not
contra y to the Constitution of the State, making his own appro.
batien precede that of the Assembly, if the question relates to ge-
neral eispositions. 15. To provide for all that concern, the M-
icron' and external security of the State, in the form prescribed by
the Von zitution. _ _ _

103. Before being proclaimed, the Emperor shall take, between
the hands of the President of the Senate, the two Chambers being
united, the following oath :—'• I swear to maintain the Roman
Catholic and Apostolic religion, and the integrity and indieiaibilitP
of the empire, to observe and to cause to be observed the political
constitution of the Brazilian nation, and the other laws of the em.
pire. sal to provide fur the general welfare of Brazil, so far as in
rue Iles."

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IDS. The Emperor cannot quit the empire of Brazil without the
euisent of the General Assmbly ; and in else that he should quit
k wittoit authority, it is supposed that he thereby abdicates the
throne.

LUAPTER 111. OF THr. IMPERIAL FAMILY AND ITS PRO.

v tit o s.
10.). The Heir Presumptive of the empire shall take the title of
Prince Imterial, and his eldest son that of Prince of Grand Para;
all the nears shall have the title of Prince; the Heir Presumptive
of the Prince of Grand-Para shall have the title of Imperial High-
ness, and the other Princes that of Highness.
104. The Heir Presumptive, as soon as he shall have attained his
fourteenth year, shall take, between the hands of the President of
the Senate, the folio A ing oath;_`` I swear to maintain the Homan
Catholic and A posni.ie religion, to observe the political constitution
of the Briailidi ra ion, sad to obey the laws and the Emperor."
1117. As soon as the Emperer shall have ascended the throne, the
General Assembly will assitm to him, as well as to the Empress,
his august spouse, the provisit n suitable to his hig's dignity.
1011. The provision assigned the present Emperor and his spouse
hall be augmented, provided that present circumstances may not
permit that a sum should, at the present time, be fixed on, suitable
to the dignity of their august persons and the nation.
109. The Assembly also assigns provision to the Imperial Prince
and the other Princes, according to their birth. The maintenance
given to the Princes will not cease, except on their leaving the
Empire
110. The guardians of the Princes shall be chosen and nominated
by the Emperor, and the Assembly shall fix the allow:wee which
should be given them t y the National Treasury.
111. In the first SCIIIIOI of each Legislature the Chamber of De-
putiss elan require frem the Profeviors an account of the progress
of their pupils.
112. When the Prlieesses shall get married, the Assembly shall
assign them a dowry, and their maintenance shall cease immediately
after this has been granted.
113. The Princea who .lisU marry and go to reside oat of the
Empire, shall receive once for all a sum designated by the Assem-
bly, And they shall then ceasa to !retire the maintenance.
114. The provision. maintenance, and dowry above mentioned,
shall be paid out of the national treasury, through the hands of
a Alajar-tionso nominated by the Emperor, and against whom may
instituted actions, active and passive, respecting the interests of
the Crown.

Its. The national pallces and grounds at present in the posses-
sion of Don Pedro, shall continue to belong to his successors; and
the nation shall keep in repair the acquisitions and constructions
'unable to the dignity and situation of the Emperor and his
;away.
CHAPTER IV. OP THE SUCCESSION TO THE EMPIRE.
116. Don Pedro First, by the unanimous voice of the people.
Cm:caution:ll Etuperur and Perpetual Defender, shall continue to
rule at Brazil.

Ili- fire it;:itimate descendant shall succeed to the throne ac-
cording to the regular order of primogeniture and representation,
the Ant lire of issue being always preferable to any subsequent
hie, the next degree to the more remote in each line, the elder per-
son to the younger of the same sex.
118. On the extinction of the legitimate descendants of Don
Pedro First, even during the lite-time of the last descendants, and
In his reign, the General Assembly shall choose a new dynasty.
lit No stranger can succeed to the Imperial Crown of Brazil.
120. The marriage of the Heiress Presumptive of the Crown
shall take place according to the will of the Emperor. bhould the
Emperor die while this union is in contemplation, it cannot take
p'aet without the approbation of the General Assembly. Iler hus-
band shall take no part in the government, nor assume the title of
Emperor, uu it he shall have by the Empress a sun or daughter.
(Atari. T. OF THR REGENCY, HERING MINORITIES OR THE

ILLNESS OP THE EMPEROR.
.121. The Emptror is a minor until he shall have completed IA
C.:lneenth year.

122. During his minority the Empire shall be governed by a Re-
gent, who shill belting to the family next of kin to the Emperor,
according to the order of succession, provided he shall be mote
than 25 years of age.
123. Should the Empernr have no relation thus qualified, the
Empire shall be gAverneti by a permanent Regency, appointed by
the General Assembly. and composed of three 31eitibers, the elder
of whom shall be Pre.ident.

124. Until the election of this permanent Regency, the Empire
shall be governed by a Provisional Regency, composed of the Mi-
nisters of the Interior and of Justice, and of two of the senior
Councillors of State, with the Empress widow previdiag, and in
her absence one of the senior Councillors of State.

125. In case of the death of the Empress regnant, her husband
shall be President of the Regency.
126. If the Eiiperor, by ahy cause. physical or moral, clearly
recognized by the plurality of each of the Chambers of the Assem.
bly, be unable to govern, the Imperial Prince shall govern in his
place, if he has attained his 10th year.
127. The Regent and Regency shall take the oath of fidelity,
apecilled in Article 103, adding a clause of fidelity to the Emperor,
and an enkagement to resign to hint the Government, when he ar-
rives of age, or when his incapacity ceases.
128. The acts of the Regent or Regency shall be in the name of
the Emperor, with the following form :—•• The Regency, in the
name of the Emperor, orders."—" The Imperial Prince Regent,
in the name of tie Emperor, orders."
129. Neither the Regent or Regency shall be responsible.
130. During the minority of the successor to the Crown, he 'hall
have for tutor him who will he designed by his father's will. In
the absence of any designation of that sort, the Empress Mother,
if she be not again married ; in default of these, the General As.
trembly shall name a tutor, who can never be the person to whom
the Crown might descend after the minor.