Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1814-06-16

| Ming. Inc present SeDatoEs, WIN ehc
exception ofthose who should renounce the
quality of French citizen, are maintained
| and form part of this number. The actual
endowment of the Senate and the Senator
! ships belong to them. The revenues are
divided equally between them, aud pass to
their successors. La case of the death OF a
Senator without direct male posterity, his
! portion returns to the public treasury
| The Senators who shall be named in future
cannot partake of this endowment.
z. The Princes of the Royal Family,
and the Prince of the blood are by right
Members of the Senate. The function OF a
senator cannot be exercised until the per
son has attained the age of 81
s. The Senate decides the cases in
which the discussion of objects before them
shall be public or secret.
9. Each Department shall send to the
Legislative body the same number of
Deputies it sent thither. The Deputies
who sat in the Legislative Body at the
period Of the last adjournment shall con-
tinue to sit until they are replaced. All
preserve their pay. In future they shall be
chosen Immediately by the Electoral
Bodies, which are preserved, with the ex-
ception of the changes that may be made
by a law in their organization. The dura-
ton of the functions of the Deputies I. the
Legislative Body is fixed at five years
The new Election shall take place fer
session of 1916.
10 The Legislative Body shall assemble
of right each year on the first of Oct
The King may conyoke it extraordinarily i;
he may adjourn it he may dissolve it
but in the latter case another Legislative
body must be formed in three months at
least by the Electoral Colleges.
II. The Legislative body has the right
Of discussion. The sitting are public. un.
less in ca SEES where it chooses to form itself
into a general committee.
IL. The Senate, Legislative Body, Flee
toral Colleges and Assemblies OF Cantons
elect their President from among them.
selves.
IS. No Member of the Senate, or Legis-
lative Body, can be arrested without a
previous authority from the body to which
he belongs. The trial of a member OF the
Senate or Legislative Body belongs ex-
clusively to the Senate.
IA, The Ministers may be members
either of the Senate or Legislative Body.
Is. Equality of proportion in the taxes
is Of right +; no tax can be imposed or re.
ceived unless it has been freely consented
to by the Legislative body and the Senate.
The land tax can only be established for a
year. The budget of the following year.
and the accounts of the proceeding year,
are presented annually to the Legislative
Body and the Senate, at the opening of the
sitting ofthe Legislative Body.
l6. The law shall fix the mode and a.
mount OF the recruiting ofthe army.
IL The independence of the judicial
power is guaranteed. No one can be re-
moved from his natural Judges. The in
situation of Juries is preserved, as we'll as
the publicity of trial in criminal matters
The penalty ofconfiscation of goods is a
polished. The king has the right of pardon
ing.
Is. The courts and ordinary tribunal
existing at present, are preserved; their
numbef cannot be diminished, or ~increas-
ed, but in virtue ola law. The Judges are
for lite, and irremoyable, except the Jus
tees of the peace and the Judges of com
merce. The Commissions and extraordin-
AIRY tribunals are suppressed and cannot be
re established.
l9. The Court of Cessation, the Courts
of Appeal, and the Tribunals of the first
instance, propose to the King three can
didates for each place of Judge vacant in
their body. The King chooses one of the
three. The king names the First Presi-
dents and the Public Ministry of the Courts
and the Tribunals.
90. The Military on service, the officers
and soldiers on half pay, the wieooo and
pensloned officers, preserve them ranks,
honors and pensions.
81. The person of the king is sacred and
inviolable. All the acts of the government
are signed by a minister. The ministers
are responsible for all, which those acts
contain, violatory of the laws, public and
private liberty, and the rights of the citi-
Zens.
90. The freedom of worship and CON.