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TITLE X.

OF THE SPANISH COLONIES IN AMERICA AND ASIA.
82. The Spanish Colonies in America and Asia shall enjoy the
same privileges as the mother country.
83. Each Kingdom and Province shall always have Deputies at
the scat of Government, charged to watch over their particular
interests, and to serve as their Representatives in the Cortes.
84. These Deputies are twenty in number, viz. two from Nei
Spain, two from Peru, two from the Philippine islands, one from
the island of Cuba, one from Purto Rico, one from the Province
of Venezuela, one from Chatcas, one from Quito, one 1.-orn Gua-
timafa, one from Guadalaxara, one from the Interior and Western
Provinces of New Spain, and one from the F.astern Provinces.
86. The said' Deputies shall exercise their functions during the
period of eight years; and, if upon the lapse of the same, their
successors shall not have yet arrived, they shall retain their fune-

dons until their actual arrival.
XI.—OF Tiff. ADMINISTRATION OF .71:STIER.
8?. Spain shall be governed by one and the same code of civil
laws.
88. The Administration of Justice is independent.
89. /twice shall be dispensed in the name of the King, by
hikes aid Courts of Juitice, to be appointed by his !Vl.ijes.y.
All Couritclaiming particular privileges, and all the exclusive
jurisdictions of any orders or seignlories whatever, are abolished.
Übe remaining articles under this bead contain nothing of
general interest.]

TITLF. XII.
OF TllO. ADMINISTRATION OF THE FINANCES.
104. The Royal Vales are irrevocably dnl4red a national d ebt
103. The tolls in the interior. between district and district, and
province and provinre, are abolished, and will be tfaitsfor med to
the frontiers and crests.
104. There shall be an uniform system of taxation for the whole
kingdom.
101. All ecktfog privileges conferred upon corporations or in-
dividuas are abolished. An indemnification shall be made for
the loss of those privileges which were acquired by a pecuniary
consideration.
106 The nomination of all officers belongs to the King, or to
the anthorities whom he empowers, according to the laws and re-
gulations.
TITLF. XIII.—GENERAL REGULATIONS.
107. There shall be a permanent alliance by sea and land, of-
fensive and defensive. between Vrance and Spain. The condo-
gent to be furnished by each of the respective Powers, in case of
a Continental or maritime war, shall be regulated by a separate

treaty. •
108. Foreigners who have perfotmedEor may hereafter per-
form great services t s the State ; who may prove useful from their
talents, inventions, or zeal and activity; who may form great
establishments, or purchase landed estates, paying a tax of fifty
hard piastres, are ad-rtistible to the rights of naturalization in
Spain The King confers this indulgence through his Minister
for Internal Affairs, upon consulting his Council of State.
109. The residence of every inhabitant of the Spanish territory
is an tm iolable sanctuary. It can only be entered In the day-
time, and for a purpose commanded by law, or in execution of an
order issued by the public magistracy.
110. No person domiciliated in the Spanish territory can be ar-
rested, except in the actual commission of a crime, or by virtue
of a lawful warrant in writing.
111. In order to the execution of a warrant of arrest, it is ne-
cessary, I. That the reason of the arrest shall be formally set forth
therein, and that it shall state the law enjoining the same. 2. That
it shall be granted by an authority formally empowered by law to
grant it. 3.That its contents shall be communicated, and a copy
thereof given to the persoe to whom it applies.
119.. No jailor or prison-keeper can receive or hold any one in
custody, without entering in his register a copy of the warrant of
commitment, indictment, cr sentence, or in a word, every order
whatsoever in virtue of which he holds the person in custody.
113. Every jailor or prison-keeper shall be compelled, and no
order whatever shall be considered as an impediment, to bring his
prisoner, as often as be shall be required to do so, before the Ma-
gistrate charged with the affairs of the Police.
114. The relatives and friends of the prisoner shel not be pre-
vented from entering the prison, upon their producing an order
from the Magistrate. A specific order from the Judge to thejal-
Joe, c, alone justify the detaining of a prisoner in close custody.
115. Persons not authorised by law to issue warrants of eons•
mitment who shall give orders for arresting, or cause to be arrest.
est, any person whatsoever, as well as thosewho, incases of legal ar-
rest, shall detain the prisoner in any place not known as a legal jail,
and all jailors contravening the three preceding articles, are guilty
of the crime of arbitrary imprisonment.
11*. The present Constitutional Statute shall successively, and
according to the importance of the respective articles, be carried'
into ezeention by Royal Decrees or Edicts, so that the whole than
be in opetation before the Ist of January. 1813.
117. ;Ps, Freedom of the PreSl. shall be regulated two years
after the Constitutional Statute shall have been in operation. The
Cortesehall pass a law respecting the freedom of the Press.