Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1800-03-31
CHAP. III.
Ofihe Legilafive Poscer.


az. No saw law hall be promulgated, IN.
lefs the plan fh,li have been propofed by the
government, communicated 10 The tribanate
and decreed by the Legislative Boay
z6. The plan which the government may
prop0fe GALL be drawn up under the different
heads. In eve cafe IN which the plans ihsl
be difcuGsd, The government may withdraw
them, AMI preient them agi lin IN modified
Gate.
~. Tie triburate is to be competed of 100
members of IS years OF aye a, leais they
lhall be renewed by fifhs every year, and 10
d, finitely r. eligible while t,..y remain upon
the national lit.
as. The tribunate aan diftufs the plans of
every law tina, may be propoied il ihall vote
for the adoption or rejetton Of Them.
Ii ihall iend three orators taken tom Is
body, by whom the motives of its vote, with
ref ea to each of the plans, lhal be ltated and
fuppotted before the leg flatye body.
IL fhall refer 10 the ftnste, but for the caaie
Of neonltitu,ionality only, the liz Of the eligi
bics, the acts of the Legislative body, and thoie
OF the goveroment.
ao. IL ihall cxprefs its opinion as 10 the laws
made OF 10 be made, the abples to be corred
ed, the ameIloratien to be attempted. in every
part of the pubic naturalization, but never re
laive 10 the civil or criminal AFT irs referred TO
the trbunsls.
The opinions it fhall give, by virtue of the
prefeut article, are TO be followed by no neeef
fairy consequences they compel no conlituted
authority to come TO any deiiberation,
go. Wheo the tribuna,e adjnurns, 1t may
appoint com nit'ee from ten To fifteen mem
bers, charged to oonvoke il, If It ihall be deem
ed acceiiary.
g.. The legi1rivr body fhall be compolea
OF 900 members, Of 90 years If age AT The leat |;
they ih III be renewed by fifth, every year
. There o9ght always 10 nc one citizen, at leaa,
| OF each department of the republic prefent.
81. a mernber who goes out OF the legifla
tive BODY cannot re eater I'LL after the interval
of year--but he may be imme iiatey elected
to any other public funaion, including that Of
t,ibnne, provided he is IN othsr refpee, eligible.
&c. The fitting OF the leg 1atiye body fhal
| commence every year on the 6rG Frmare, and
| fhall continue only four months---it may be
extraordinarily convoked during the other ght
| by the government.
81. The legislative body enaefs the law by
| determining by iecret fcrut'ny, aud without any
diicu0ion on tie part of its members, upon the
plans of the law debaled before it, by the ora
tors Of the uibunate and the government.
S.. The fittings of the tribunate aud of the
leg 1ative body, hall be pubiic-th. number
OF trangers in either of III. m not 10 exceed 400.
| IS. The annual fslsry # tribune fhall be
$1,000 francs, that of legi1a,iye 10000 francs.
81. Every decree % the leg natve body ihal
the 10th day after il be made, be promulgated
!, by tie chief eoniul. unleis in the mean time it
is referred to the fenate, on The ground of in
eonllituiionaity. Such reference cannot be
made with regard to laws that have been pro
mulgared.
ss. The fra renewal of the legislative body
and of the triSunatc ihall not take place I'LL the
10th year. -