Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-06-06

ArticIts IS to 81 inclusive, traat q &
Legislative Body, the title of which +, '
be Their High Mightiaesses. represent,
the Batayian Comm onweal,h, the M,
bers of which are to adopt the title ]
High and Mighty Lords. The ~sovereip,
ty Of the Batavian people is to be REM /
senred by t.at Assembly, with the Penn
onary.
To il is to belong the enactment
Laws it is TO consist OF nineteen mem,
,bers, to be elected every three years, andn
be nominated by the Departmental G.
vernments, Wig. seven for Holland, one fu
Zealand, one for Utrecht, and two for each
ct the remaining provinces /; slleir qualifca
tions, TO be voters, of the age of thirty, bon
withinethe eight departments or %coloaiis
of the state, and before their appo;ns
ment h:sing resided six years IN The DE-
parsment to which they are elected.
The Departmental Government nonL
mates four persons and transmit such noni
nation to the Pensionary, who reduces TIL
aumbeFto two, from. which the former &
lects. @ .
The Pensionary opens s1e Assembly d
Their High Mightinesses, when they pro-
eeed TO the election of a president froa
their body ; the assembly to be assis:el 1,
a recorder, elected from a nominstia
made By them of Two persons not Of thsi
body, TO be transmitted 10 che Peusiouay, I
All DEGREES Of said Assembly to b.
signed 5y the President, and couatersisa.
ed by the Recorder. The members q
that assembly to vote, withoat being ehars.
ed by, o consulting with, the Depart.
mental Governments, to whom. also they
are not responsible for their conduct in
the Assembly of Their High Mightinsss.
eS.
The membersof the Departmental Go.
vernment, secretaries Of State, members Of
the council of finances, and of the courts Of
Justice, are not 20 sit in said assembly ur.
til they have regained the posts which they
filed on their nomination. Said assem-.
bly, debates on no other subjects thanthoe
submitted to it by the ~pensionarY; they
consent to or negative them, without mat.
ing any change or modification; aud ta
law proposed passing in the affirmative, ID
,timation of tito be Immediately gren to
the psnsionary. he being charged with the
PRONUNCIATION aud execution oft. ftbe
negatived by the assembly, it also gives the
p~ensionary nosice of the rejection, and OF
the reasons for such rejection, when he may
propose it once more, sdduciug new mo-
tives, or making some alteration in IT.
Fl is K that assembly exclusively cent?
ed to deliberate on the general estimasa
of the pubic necessities, and all augnenta|
tons thereof, to be laid before 1t by The
pensionary. At his instance il grants, atte'
having receivedsiBfofmation from the nas'
onal courtof justice, pardon, abolition o.
remission oi punishment, irRicted BY Judl'
cial sentences; and, 10 Being assembled
he is qualified to suspend the execution OF
a sentenee, but obliged to communicate the
matter TO the assembly on It's succeeding s'
sion. To hat assemblyexclusively belong
the right of ratifying treaties OF peace, al
lance, and commerce , but the secret aT'
clcs attached to such treaty are not com
pretended in that ratification, which art'
cles, however, mus not be r~epugnantto tm
public ores, aoG offend to ,he cesslon0 Oh
any terriuory of the Batavian common
wealth !; nor can any declaration OF wa
take place before a previous decree =
Their High Mightiaesses, passed on !"
proposition Of tbs P~ensioaary.
The assembly TO meet twice ayear, W.
from. April Is to t;ls fst Of }une, and iro'
the lst of December to thet15ih of janu''
ry Bat IT may be summnhtd to .meeteS'
tfaordinariiyy as often as the penslopay
shall deem it advisable. Cue'of me
members Of thar aaeesably go. out on u'
1srof December, and the day OF their "H'
drawing is, fixed to the FIRST dave assem-
bling; which Withdrawing, for the hrst'
SHALL occmin December /, 1906. foT !"
dsmnity, travelling expences, and RESI-