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I:NE ,CH.AM3Eit OF PEEItS.

XXIV. The. Chamber of Peers is an essential
nail of the,Le4rislative Power.

XXV. It shall be convoked by the Kiug, at the
same time with the Chamber of the Depnties.of
the Department: The Session of both shall cum-
mence and terminate at the same time.

XXVI. Any Assembly of die Chaulber of Peers
whica shall be held at any *other titue than during
the Session of the Deputies, or which. shall nut
be ordered by the King, is illegal and null.
The nomination of the Peers of France
belongs to the King; their number is bot
The King, can vary the dignities, and, way gratit
them for life, or make their' hereditary, according
to his pleasure.
The Peers cannot enter their Chamber
before they arc twenty-five year of age, nor bare
a -deliberative voice before they are thirty.
XXIX. The .Chancellor of France presides in
the Chamber of Peers, and, in ,his absence, a Peer
named by the King.

XXX. The Alen►bers of the Royal Family, and
the Princes of the Royal :Bloo►i, are Peers. by -
right of birth. •They sit immediately, below the
President ; but they have no deliberative voice
till they are twenty-five years of age.
XXXI. The Princes can only take their seat
in the Chamber by the ,order expressed by the
King each Session, by a message, under thepe-
nalty of all acts dune in their pyeseuce beimg null
and void. s
• XXXII: All the deliberations of the Chamber
of Peers shall be secret.

XXXII!. The Chamber of Peers take cogni-
zance of crimes of High Treason, and of crimes
against the safety of the State, which
,shall ha.ve
been defined 'by Law.

XXXIV. No Peer can be arrested except by
the authority of the Chamber, and can only be
tried by it h. crimi►►al matters.

THE CHAMBER, OF DEPITTIES OF THE DEPART-

Er,":l's.

XXXV. The Chamber of Deputies shall he
composed• of Deputies chosen by the Electoral
College's, the.organization of which shall be de-
termined by the Law,

XXXVI. Every Department 'shall have the
satne.ni►'iuber of Deputies that it has hitherto lied.
XXXVII. The Dquties shall be elected for
five years and in such.a manner that the Chamber
shall he renewed every year by fifths.
XXXVIII. No Deputy can he admitted into
the Cliamber under the age" of 40'years, nor un-
less he pays direct taxes to the amount of 1000
livres.

XXXIX. It, however, there shall not be found
in a Department fifty persons of the prescribed
age, and paying the nec.ess►►ry
.sunt taxation\
persons p►►ying the nearest to that amount may be
chosen concurrently with the former.
XL. No person shall have a right of voting for
Deputies unless he shall have attained the age of
30 years; and shall pay in direct' taxation 300

XLI:The Presidents of the Electoral College
shall be named by the King, and shall be by right
Members of the College.
• XLII. One half of the Deputies, at least, shall
be chosen out of eligible persons residing in the
Departments.
XLIII. The President of the Chaml)er of De-
puties shall be chosen by the King, out •of a list
of five persons presented to him by the Cinunber.
XLIV. I'hc Sittings of the Chamber shall be
public; but on the demand of five Members it shall
resolve itself into aSeciet Committee.
XLV.'The CliamGer shall, be-divided into Corti
ntittees, to discuss the propositions subinitted to
it by the King.
XLVI. No amendment can be made to a law,
unle,s it has been pro wised by the King, and ,dis-
cnssed in a Cvtn►nittee.

XLVI.I. The Chamber of Deputies receives all
prepositions relative to Taxatioo, and it is only
after the proposition shall have been admitted that
it can be sent to the Chamber of Peers.

XLVIII. No Impost can be' cstaulished or en-
forced without having been consented to by the
two Chambers, and sanctioned by the King.
XLI.X. The direct Taxes on Laud (impol fon-
cier) are not consented to for more than one
year; the indirect Taxes May continue for many
years. •

L. The King convokes the two Chambers
every year ; lie prorogues them, and can dissolve
that of the Deputies of Depart►nents ; but in that
case he n►uit convoke a new Session within three
mouths.

LI. No personal restraint can be imposed upon
any Member of. the Chamber during the Session,
or within six weeks before or after.

L1I.• No Member of the Chamber can be, dur-
ing the Session, prosecuted or arrested on any
criminal charge, except in the case of atrocious
crime, and after the Chamber Las given permis-
sion for his prosedition.
LW. Petitions to either of the Chambers must
be in writing. The law prohibits their being
presented in person at the .bar.