The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-02-21 00:00:00

TITLE IT.-FOKM OP ELECTION.,

42. Each tleet.;, before he shall vote, shall take an
oath to he faithful to the King, to ohey the Constitu-
tional Charter and the laws of the realm, and to vote in
his soul and consrience, according to his knowledge and
V1'41111;11 conviction.
23. The• nomination of the Members of the Depart-
mental liege s1;411 take place in the District Colleges,
arronling to the scrutiny of the list and the relative ma-
jority of the suffrages declared. The calculation of the
votes foi this nomination shall Ise performed ria.:h even-
ing, anal remain open as long as the voting for the Ore-
-1 lion of the Deputies of the College. Both scrutinies
shall be Mimed at the Same. time.
21. Hach ballotting-tirket or bulletin shall contain
only a number of names equal to the number of Members
to he appointed by the College. The names exceeding
that number shall be erased by the Bureau.
23. Each elector shall sign his Bulletin. The Bulle-
tins shall be burned each day in the presence of the
Menshers of the Bureau, immediately after the scrutiny
takes place.
2& For the election of Deputies, each elector shall
write his vote at the table, or he shall cause it to be
signed by s Member of the Bureau, the Bulletin which
shall he furnished to him for that purpose. The Bulletin
shall then be remitted to the President, who shall depo-
sit it in an tarn.

•27. He alio shall have rereivA in a College an abim-
hite majority of votes of the electors composing each
College. Aril immediately be proclaimed Deputy by the
President. _

In ease that the absolute majority of votes shall
nut he obtained, the Bureau shall appoint another
bal-
lot fur the day billets ink.
29. If an election by balloting (at-rutin de kflotegr)
shall take place, it shall open on the third day. The
vmeeahall he thee solely given to the two candidates
who shall have obtained most rotes on the second stage.
This scroitiny shall continue open for tier days, provided
that hrfore this stage one of the candidates shall not
have obtained an absolute majority of the electors com-
posing the College. Fur which purpose, the votes shall I
be s' I up each evening (seentin deposal/iv) and the
result male public.

TITLIC ntoei.vririsra:
30. No person ran be Deputy for a Department, in
which he shall not have his political domicil, if he shall
not have paid in this Department one ballot- the land
taxes which render him eligible.
31. P.lch Departmental shall be bound to elect one
half of the Deputies to be named by it, from among the
eligibles who shall have their political domicils in that
Department.
32. One half the Deputies to be chosen in the Elec-
toral Colleges of the same Department, shall he chosen
from among the eligibles who have their political domi-
cils in that Department.
33. When the Departmental or District Colleges shall
have chosen among the eligibles who have not their
political domicils in such department, more than one
half of the Deputies to he appointed by such department
or district, the nullity of choice shall Bear upon him or
them who shall be less advanced in age. The Colleges,
the Members of n Well shall have been thus nominated,
shall be convoked, in order to proceed to • new elec-
tion after a delay of three months in waiting for the de-
figainll of the Chamber.

:H. He who has been elected by two or more Colleges
of the sato:. department, shall, within fifteen days fol-
lowing bis election, be boons' to wake his option, and
to ra said option to be inserted in a registure opened
at the Prefecture; and the Colleges of which he shall
not bare accepted the nomination, shall be convoked
within six weeks after, to proceed to a new election.
33. In default of the elected not making known his
choice within the time fixed by the preceding article, he
shall be considered to have formes' his option for the
College where he shell have obtained the greatest 1111111•
her of votes.

SS. In ease of a dissolution of the Chamber, all the
Deputies shall sit for five years, so that the renewal of
the Chamber, by one-fifth, shall not take place till after
the ezpirAtion of the fifth year.

TITLC RISCLATIoNS.

37. The 172 Deputies, the nomination of whom shall
belong to the departmental Colleges, shall be named in
the Session immediately succeeding this. Conse-
quently the Electoral District Colleges shall be convoked,
to proceed to the renewal of the Deputies of the depart-
ments.

38. The fifth of the actual Deputies who shall be re-
newed in the succeeding Session shall be named by the
District Colleges.
39. Every elector who pays taxes in several districts
of the department in whirls he has his political domicil,
shall he obliged to declare, before the Prefect, within
one month after the psiblicatiou of the present law, the
district in which he intends to exercise his electorial
rights. In default of such declaration, he shall he con-
sidered to belong to the district iu which he may have
his real domicil, and if he does not reside within the
department" that district in which he pays the greatest
pretpurtiosuf taxes.

• 4.0. In the depitrtutents where the District Colleges
sb4ll not have to nominate a Deputy, the scrutiny for
the election of the Members for the Departmental Col-
lege shall continue open for three Jays.
41. Fur the following Sessio• the departments which
shall have to renew their Deputies,shall elect them alto-
gether, conformable to this law.
41. In ease of the depth or expulsion of • Sitting
Deputy, his replacement shall be proceeded IN by the
Electoral College of the district in which he had his
domicil. Whenever two or more Deputies shall have
had their domicils in the same district, the district
which shall have to provide for the replaeemeet of the