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CONSTITUTIONAL CHARTER

OF PORTUGAL.

/BOK Mt lITAIL Or YIPTIZDAY.

Chapter V.—Of the Elections.

Aar. 63.—The nomination of Deputies for the general Cortes,
shall be made by indirect elections ; the mass of the active citi-
zens electing, in parochial assemblies, the electors of the province ;
and these the representatives of the nation.
Aar. 64.—Those who can vote in these primary elections, are
—l. Portuguese dtizens, who are in possession of their political
rights.-.!. Neutralized foreigners.
Axe. 63.—Those excluded from voting in the parochial &seem-
blies are-1. Minors, under twenty-five years of age, smog*
whom, however, are not included married men, and military oS-
lefihrko.are above twenty-one years of age, bachelors of arts, and
clergy Inholy orders.—!. Sons of families who are living with their
parents, unless they hold public offices.-3. Servants, to which
class do not belong book-keepers, or head clerks of commercial
houses, the servants of the royal palace that do not wear white
lace, and the administrators of country estates, or manufactories.
—4. Religious orders, and all that live in cleisteral community.-
5. Those wholsave not a clear income of a hundred milreas, pro-
ceeding frem estates, industry, commerce, or employment.
Aar. 66.—Those who are not eligible to vote in the primary pa-
rochial assemblies cannot be members, nor vote in the nomination
of any elective national authority. •
Axe. 67.—A1l can be electors, and vote in the election of depu-
ties, who have votes in the parochial assemblies ; except-1. Those
who have not an annual dear rent of two hundred milress, in es-
tater, industry, commerce, or employment.—!. Enfranchised
slaves.-3. Condemned criminals.
Aar. 611.— AU those who can be electors, are competent to be
nominated deputies, excepting-1. Those who have not four hun-
dred milreas clear rent, according to Articles 6S and 67.-2. Natu-
ralized foreigners.
Aux. 69.—Portuguese citizens, wherever they may live, are eli-
gible in each electoral district for deputies, although they were
neither born there nor have become residents or settlers.
Aar. 70.—The practical manner of carrying on the elections
will be ged by a regulating law ; and the number of deputies
proportioned to the population of the kingdom.

Title V.—Of the King.
Chapter I.—Of the Moderating Power.

ART. 71.—The moderating power is the key to all political or.
ganisation, and belongs exclusively to the King. as Supreme Chief
of the Nation, in order to watch incessantly over the maintenance
of the independency, equilibrium, and harmony of the other politi-
cal powers.
Aar. 72.-11ie person of the King le sacred and inviolable; he
is not subject to any responsibility.
Aar. 75.—His titles are, King of Portugal and the Algarve.,
on this and the other side of the Sea; in Africa, Lord of Gutnd,
and of the Conquest, Navigation, and Commerce of Ethiopia,
Arabia, Penis, and India, acc. and he has the style of Most Faith-
ful Majesty.
ART. 74.—The King exercises the moderating power.—l. In
nominating the peers, without any axed number.-2. In convoking,
especially. the general Cartes in the interval of the Sessions, when
the interest of the nation requires it.—S. In sanctioning the de-
crees and resolutions of the general Cortes, that they may be en-
forced as laws. (Art. 654-.4. In pronging the general Cates,
and dissolving the Chamber of Deputy, In curs where the salvation
of the state requires it ; immediately convoking another to replace
it.-5. In nominating, and fully dismissing the Ministers of State.
—6. In impending magiuracy, in cases of Article 121.-7. In
pardoning, and mitigating the punlibments imposed on culprits
condemned by sentence.-8. in conceding amnesty in urgent
cases, and when humanity and the welfare of the State recom-
mend it.