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Art. 88. The Councils of War and of Revision for the
land and naval forces, the Maritime Tribunals, the Tri-
bunals of Commerce, the Prud'homrnes, and other
special tribunals, preserve their present organisation and
attributions until they shall have been abrogated by a law.
Art. 89. Any disagreement as to attributions between
the administrative and the judicial authority shall kre
settled by a special tribunal, composed of members of
the Court of Cessation and of Councillors of State,
selected every three years, in equal numbers, by their
respective bodies. This tribunal shall be presided over
by the Minister of Justice.

Art. 90. Appeals on the score of incompetency and
excess of power against the decisions of the Court of
Accounts shall be carried before the Juridiction de
Conflits.

Art. 91. A High Court of Justice tries, without ap-
peal or recourse in cassation, the accusations brought
by the National Assembly against the President of the
Republic:or against the Ministers. It alio tries all per-
sons accused of crimes, attempts, or conspiracies against
the safety of the State, either at home or abroad, whom
the National Assembly shall send before it. Ex •
cept in the cases provided for by Art. 68, it cannot take
cognisance but in virtue of the decree of the National
Assembly, which points out the town in which the Court
shall hol,l its sittings.
Art. 92. The High Court is composed of five Judges
and thirty-six Jurymen. Every year in the first fort-
night of November the Court of Cassation appoints from
amongst its members, by secret ballot and by the abso-
lute majority, the Judges of the Upper Court, to the
number of five, and two supplementary Judges. The
five Judges called on to sit shall select their President.
The magistrates performing the functions of public pro-
secutors are appointed by the President of the Republic,
in case of the accusation of the President or of the Mi-
nisters by the National Assembly. The Jurymen, to
the number of thirty-six and four supplementary Jury-
men, are selected from amongst the members of the
Councils General of the departments. The representa-
tives of the people cannot form part of them.
Art. 93. When a decree of the National Assembly has
ordered the formation of the High Court of Justice, and
in the case provided for by Art. 68, on the requisition
of the President, or of one of the Judges, the President
of the Court of Appeal, and in default of the Court of
Appeal the President of the tribunal de premiere instance
of the judicial chief town of the department draws by
lot, in a public sitting, the name of a member of the
Council General.

Art. 94. On the day appointed for the trial, if there
are less' than 60 jurymen present, that number shall be
completed by the supplementary jurymen drawn by lot
by the President of the High Court from amongst the
members of the Council General of the department in
which the court will sit.

Art. 95. The absent juryman who shall not have pro-
duced a reasonable excuse shall be condemned to a fine
of from B,ooof. to 10,000 f., and to the deprivation of
political rights for not exceeding five years.
Art. 96. The accused and the public prosecutor exer-
cise the right of challenge as in ordinary cases.
Art. 97. The verdicts of the jury, declaring that the
accused is guilty, cannot be given but by a majority of
two-thirds of the number.

Art. 98. In all cases of responsibility of the Ministers,
the National Assembly may, according to circumstances,
send the accused Minister either before the High Court
of Justice, or before the ordinary tribunals for civil re•
paration.
Art. 99. The National Assembly and the President of
the Republic may, in all cases, ret'er the examination of
the acts of any functionary other than the President of
the Republic, to the Council of State, whose report is
made public. _ _

Art: 100. The President of the Republic can only be
tried by the High Court of Justice. Except in the case
provided for by Article 63, he can only have proceed.
ings instituted against him on the accusation of the
National Assembly, and for crimes and misdemeanors
which shall be determined by the law.
CHAPTER IX.—OF TELE PUBLIC FORCE.
Art. 101. The public force is instituted to defend the
State against enemies from without, and to secure the
maintenance of order and the execution of the laws at
home. It is composed of the National Guard and of the
land and sea forces.

Art. 102. Every Frenchman, with the exceptions fixed
by law, owes military service, and that of the National
Guard. The power of any citizen of liberating himself
from personal military service shall be regulated by the
law of recruitment.

Art. 103. The organisation of the National Guard
and the constitution of the army, shall be regulated by
a law.

Art. 104. The public force is essentially obedient. No
armed body can deliberate.
Art. 105. The public force employed to maintain
order at home only acts on the requisition of the consti-
tuted authoritie=, according to the, rules
,determined by
the Legislative Power.
Art. 106. A law will determine the cases in which the
state of siege may be declared, and will regulate the
forms and the effects of that measure.
Art. 107. No foreign troops can be introduced on the
French territory without the previous consent of the Na-
tional Assembly.
CHAPTER X.—PARTICULAR PROVISIONS.

Art. 108. The L-gion of Honour is maintained; its
statutes shall be revised and put in harmony with the
Constitution.

Art. 109. The territory of Algeria and of the colonies
is declared French territory, and will be ruled by parti-
cular laws until a special law places them under the
regime of the present Constitution.

Art. 110. The Ngtional Assembly confides the deposi
of the present Constitution, and of the rights which i
consecrates, to the guardianship and patriotism of al
Frenchmen.

CHAPTER XL-01? THE REVISION OF THE CONSTI.

TITTION.

Art. 1l l. When, in the last year of a Legislature,
the National Assembly shall express a wish that the
Constitution should be modified wholly or in part, it
shall proceed to that revision in the following man-
ners:—The wish expressed by the Assembly shall
not be converted into a &finite resolution until
after three consecutive deliberations, each taken
at intervals of one month, and with three-fourths of the
votes expressed. The number of voters should be at
least 500. The Assembly of revision shall only be
named for three months. It shall only occupy itsulf
with the revision for which it shall have been convoked,
but it may nevertheless, in case of urgency, provide for
any legislative necessities.