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NOMINATION OF THE DEPUTIES TO THE CORTES.

34. For the election of Deputies to the Cortes, parish,
district, and provincial meetings shall be held.—N. B. The
details contained in Arts. 55 to 103.

CHAP. 111.
OF THE PARISH ELECTIVE MEETINGS.

Art. 35. Shall be composed of all citizens settled and re-
sident in the district of each respective parish, including the
secular ecclesiastics.

38. In the parochial meetings there shall be appointed
for every 200 inhabitants a parish member.
41. The parish meeting shall select eleven umpires of
their number by plurality of votes, in order that they may
elect the parish member.
45. To be entitled to be appointed parish member, it is
necessary to be a citizen, 25 years of age, an inhabitant,
and resident in the parish.

53. The nominated umpire shall retire to a separate
place before the meeting is dissolved, and, conferring toge-
ther, shall proceed to nominate the elector or electors of
the parish. _

56. In the parish meeting, no citizen shall appear with
arms.

DISTRICT ELECTIVE MEETINGS.

59. The elective meetings of the district shall be com-
posed of the parochial electors, who shall assemble at the
head of each district for the purpose of nominating the
elector or electors, who shall proceed to the capital of the
province to elect the deputies to the Cortes.
63. The number of district electors shall be in propor-
tion of three to one of the deputies to be elected.
66. The census (vide art. 31, 32, and 33) determines the
number of deputies for each province, and the number of
electors for each of its districts.

73. Immediately the appointment of the elector or elec-
tors of districts shall be proceeded with, electing them one
by one, and in secret scrutiny by means of tickets, in which
the name of every one elected is written down.
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75. To be an elector of district, it is necessary to be a
citizen, in exercise of his rights, 25 years of age, settled and
resident in the district, either a layman or of the secular
clergy : the citizens who compose the meeting being eligible,
or those not present thereat.

77. In the elective meetings of districts every particular
shall be observed which is already ordained for the elective
parish meetings in the 55th, 56th, 57th, and 58th articles.

CHAP V.

ON THE ELECTIVE PROVINCIAL MEETINGS TO NOMINATE

DEPUTIES TO THE CORTES.

Art. 78. The elective meetings of the province shall con-
sist of the electors of all its districts, who shall assemble in
the capital (of the province) for the purpose of naming ap-
propriate Deputies to the Cortes as representatives of the
nation.

87. The President shall then inquire if any citizen has
any complaint to make of bribery or corruption in favour of
the election of any particular person ; and should it appear
that there is, public and verbal explanation should imme-
diately take place. The accusation being proved, the guilty
shall be deprived of both active and passive votes. Slan-
derers shall suffer the same punishment, and from this sen-
tence no relief can be admitted.

88. Subsequently the electors who are' present shall pro-
ceed to the election of a Deputy or Deputies, &c. &c.
91. To be a Deputy to the Cortes, it is requisite to be a
citizen in the exercise of his rights, twenty-five years old,
born in the province or settled therein, with a residence of
at least seven years, whether a layman or secular ecele-
siast ic.

92. It is besides required, to be eligible as a Deputy to
the Cortes, to possess a proportional annual income, pro-
ceeding from real personal property.

N.B. A future Cortes shall determine the amount.

95. The Secretaries of State, the Councillors of State,
and those fulfilling offices of the Royal Household, are
ineligible as Deputies to the Cortes.
96. Neither can any foreigner be eligible as Deputy to
the Cortes, although he may have obtained letters of citi-
zenship from the Cortes.

97. No public officer employed by Government shall be
elected Deputy to the Cortes by the province in which he
discharges his trust.

102.—T0 indemnify the Deputies for their expenses,
the respective provinces shall contribute such daily allow-
ance as the Cortes shall determine, &c.

ASSEMBLY OF THE CORTES.
104. The Cortes shall assemble every year, in the ca-
pital of the kingdom.
106. The Session of the Cortes shall continue three
months in each year, beginning on the I st of March.
108. The Deputies shall be renewed entirely every two
years.

- 110. The Deputies cannot be elected a second time with-
out another Deputation intervening (that is, a member is
not eligible for two successive Cortes).

THE OATH.

117. I swear religiously to guard and keep protected the
political constitution of the Spanish monarchy, sanctioned
by the general and extraordinary Cortes of the nation in the
year 1812.

N.B. Art. 118. The form by ballot of electing a Pre-
sident, Vice-President, and four Secretaries.

124. The Cortes cannot deliberate in the presence of
the King.
125. In those cases where the Secretaries of the State
have any communication to make to the Cortes in the name
of the King, they may attend the debates, when and in such
manner as the Cortes may think fit, and may speak thereon,
but they cannot be present on proceeding to the vote.
126. Th-e-session of the Cortes shall be public, and in
those cases only that require reserve can a secret meeting
be held.

128. The Deputies shall be inviolable for their opinions,
and in no time or case, nor by any authority, can they be
recriminated for them. In criminal cases they cannot be
tried except by the tribunal of the Cortes, during the sitting
of the Cortes, and one month afterwards. The Deputies
cannot be sued at civil law, nor levied upon for debt.
129. During the period of his deputation no Deputy can
admit of for himself, or solicit for another, any employment
or grant from the King, nor any increased rank, as there
must be no ladder in his respective career.
130. He cannot during the period of his deputation, and
one year afterwards, obtain for himself, nor solicit for ano-
ther, any pension or dignity whatever that may proceed from
a grant of the King.

POWERS OF THE CORTES.
1. To prepare and decree the laws, and to interpret and
alter them on necessary occasions.
2. To take the oath to the King and to the Regency.
3. To determine any doubt of fact, or right, that may
occur in the order of the succession to the Crown.
4. To elect a Regency, or Regent, of the kingdom when
the Constitution requires it, and to point out the limit
within which the Regent or Regency, must exercise the
royal authority.
6. To nominate a guardian to the King minor when the
Constitution requires.

7. They are to approve, previous to ratification, the trea-
ties of offensive alliance, of subsidies, and the particulars of
commerce. _

8. To permit or refuse the admission of foreign troops
into the kingdom.
9. To decree the creation and suppression of offices in
the tribunals established by the Constitution, and also the
creation or abolition of public offices.
10. To fix every year, on the proposition of the King,
the land and sea forces, determining the establishment in
time of peace, and its augmentation in time of war.
11. To issue ordinances to the army, the fleet, and to
the national militia in all their branches.

2. To fix the expenses of the Public Administration.
3. To establish unually the taxes.

14. To take the property on loan, in cases of necessity,
upon the credit of the nation.
15. To approve the division of taxes among the pro-
vinces.
16. To examine and approve the accounts of the appli-
cation of the public funds.
17. To establish the Custom-houses, and duties to be
paid.

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18. To order what is expedient for Administration, pre-
servation, and alienation of the national funds.
19. To determine the value, the weight, the standard,
the figure, and description of money.
20. To adopt the system it may judge most convenient
and just of weights and measures.
21. To promote and encourage all kinds of industry, and
to remove the obstacles that paralyse it.
22. To establish a general plan of public instruction in
the whole Monarchy.
23. To approve the general regulation for the police and
health of the kingdom,
24. To protect the political liberty of the press.
25. To render real and effective the responsibility of
the Secretaries of State, and other persons in public employ.
26. (Lastly.) It belongs to the Cortes to grant or refuse
its consent in all those cases and acts which the Constitu-
tion points out necesssary.
ON THE FORM OF THE LAWS, AND THE ROYAL ASSENT.
Art. 132. Every Deputy possesses the power of submit-
ting to the Cortes the sketch of new laws, in writing, and
explaining the reasons on which they are founded.
139. Decisions shall be given by an absolute majority of
votes, and it shall be necessary that there be present at
least one-half and one more of the total number of the De-
puties
composing the Cortes.
142. The King holds the right of sanction to the laws.
143. The King gives the sanction in this form, with his
sign manual ;—" Let this be made public as the law."
144. The King refuses his sanction in this form, equally
with his sign manual :--" Let it return to the Cortes :"
giving, at the same time, a statement of his reasons for re-
fusing it.
145. The King may exert this prerogative for thirty
days. If within that time he has neither given or refused
his assent, it shall be understood that he has given it.
148. The King may refuse his consent a second time.
149. If the same project of a new law should be pro-
posed a third time, approved by the Cortes of the following
year, it shall be understood that the King gives his assent,
and on presenting it to him will give it, according to the
143 d article.
153. The laws are altered with the same formalities and
with the same proceedings that enact them.
ON THE PERMANENT COMMITTEE OF THE CORTES.
Art. 157. Previous to separating, the Cortes will name
a Committee, which shall be styled the Permanent Com-
mittee of the Cortes, composed of seve❑ individuals there-
of, three from the European Provinces, and three from
those beyond sea, and the seventh shall be drawn by lot
between an European Deputy and one from beyond sea.
159. The Permanent Committee shall continue from one
ordinary Cortes to another. .

160: The powers of this Committee are,—first, To keep
a vigilant eye on the observation of the Constitution, and
the laws, and to report to the succeeding Cortes any in-
fringement thereon which it has observed. Secondly, To
convoke the Extraordinary Cortes in those cases prescribed
by the Constitution.