care of him shall be delegated by the Legislative Body.

For the care of the minor King, neither the Regent, nor his defcendants, nor a woman can be chofen.

IX. In cafe of the King's mental incapacity notoriously admitted, legally proved, and declared by the Legiflative Body, after three fucceffive deliberations held monthly, there fhall be a Regency as long as fuch incapacity continues.

SECTION III.

OF, THE ROYAL FAMILY.

I. the prefumptive heir fhall bear the name of Prince Royal.

He cannot go out of the kingdom, without a decree of the Legislative Body, and the King's confent.

If he is gone out of it, and if, after being required by a proclamation of the Legiflative Body, he do not return to France, he is held to have abdicated the right of fucceffion to the throne.

II. If the prefumptive heir is a minor, the relation, of full age, and next in order to the regency, is bound to relide within the kingdom.

In cafe of his going out of it, and not returning on the requifition of the Legi flative Body, he fhall be held to have abdicated his right to the Regency.

III. The mother of the minor King, having the care of him, or the guardian elect, if they go out of the kingdom, forfeit their charge:

If the mother of the prefumptive heir, a minor, go out of the kingdom, she cannot, even after her return, have the care of her minor fon become King, but by a decree of the Legislative Body.

IV. The other members of the family of the King are fubject only to the laws common to all citizens.

V. A law fhall be made to regulate the education of the minor King, and that of the minor heir prefumptive.

VI. No real apanage (in land) fhall be granted to the members of the Royal Family.

The younger fons of the King hall receive, at the age of twenty-five, or on their marriage, an annuity, the amount of which fhall be fixed by the Legislative Body, and which fhall terminate with the extinction of their male-heits.

SECTION IV.

OF MINISTERS.

I. To the King alone belongs the choice and revocation of minifters.

II. No order of the King can be executed, if it be not figned by him, and counterligned by the minifter or comp troller of the department..

III. The minifters are refponfible for all the offences committed by them againft the national fafety and the Conflitution

for every attack on individual property and liberty for every abuse of the money allotted for the expences of their department.

IV. In no cafe can the written or verbal order of a King fhelter a Minifter from refponfibility.

V. The Minifters are bound to prefect every year to the Legiflative Body, at of the expences of their department, to the opening of the feffion, the amount give an account of the employment of The fams defined for that purpose, and to mention the abufes which may have crep into the different parts of the Go

2. To fix the public expences.

3. To establish the public contributions, to determine the nature of them, the amount of each fort, and the mode of collection.

4. To make the diftribution of them among the feveral departments of the kingdom, to watch over the application, and to demand an account of it.

5. To decree the creation or fuppreffion of public offices.

6. To determine the quality, the impreffion, and the, denomination of móney.

tion of foreign troops into the French ter7. To permit or prohibit the introducritories, and of foreign naval forces into the ports of the kingdom.

8. To vote annually, on the King's propofition, the number of men and ships, of which the fea and land forces fhall be compoied; the pay and the number of

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each rank; the rules of admiffion and promotion; the forms of enrollment and discharge; the formation of naval equipments; the admiffion of foreign troops, or naval forces into the French fervice, and the pensions to troops an being difbanded.

9. To regulate the adminiftration and the alienation of the National Domains. 10. To profecute before the high National Court, the minifters and principal agents of the executive power, on their refponfibility.

To accufe and profecute, before the fame court, thofe who fhall be charged with any offence or confpiracy again the general fafety of the ftate or the conftitution.

11. To eftablifh the rules according to which marks of honour or decorations merely perfonal fhall be granted to thofe who have done fervice to the state.

12. The Legislative Body has the fole right of decreeing pofthumous honours to the memory of great men.

II. War cannot be refolved on but by a decree of the National Affembly, paffed on the formal and neceffary propofition of the King, and fanctioned by him:

In case of hostilities, imminent or commenced, of an ally to be fupported, or a right to be maintained by force of arms the King fhall give notification without delay to the Legislative Body, with an explanation of the reafons:

If the L gif tive Body decide that war ought not to be made, the King fhall inftantly take measures to prevent or put a flop to hoftilities, the Minifters being refponfible for all delays;

If the Legislative Body find that the hoftilities commenced are a culpable aggreffion on the part of Minifters, or any other agent of the Executive Power, the author of the aggreffion shall be profęcured criminally:

During the whole courfe of war, the Leglative Body may require the King to negociate peace, and the King is bound to yield to this requifition:

On the immediate conclufion of war, the Legiflative Body fhall fix the time within which the troops levied above the peace eftablishment fhall be difcharged, and the army reduced to its ordinary eftablishment.

III. It belongs to the Legislative Body to ratify treaties of peace, alliance, and commerce; and no treaty hall have effect, but by this ratification.

IV. The Legislative Body has the right of determining the place of its fittings, of continuing them as long as it fhall think neceffary, and of adjourning: at the commencement of each reign, if it is not fitting, it shall be bound to meet without delay:

It has the right of police in the place of its fitting, and to fuch extent around it as fhall be determined:

It has the right of difcipline over its members; but it can pronounce no heavier punishment than cenfure, arrest for eight days, or imprisonment for three:

It has the right of difpofing, for itsfafety and the respect that is due to it of the forces, which fhall be eftablished by its confent, in the city where it shall hold its fittings.

V. The Executive Power cannot march, or quarter, or fiation, any troops. of the line, within thirty-thousand toifes of the Legislative Body, except on the requifition, or by the authority of that body.

Prefident.

deliberation; and the Legislative Body fhall decide, whether they are qualiñed to pass a definitive decree, or would rather chufe to poftpone their decifion, in order to gather more ample information on the fubject :

VII. The Legiflative Body cannot deli-, berate, if the fitting do not contist of at least 200 members; and no decree fhall be made, except by the ab.olute majority of

Votes:

VIII No plan of a law which, after having been fubmitted to difcuffion, fhall have been rejected after the third reading, can again be introduced the fame fefsion:

IX. The preamble of every definitive decree, fhall announce, ift, The dates of those three fittings, at which the plan of the decree was read; 2d, The decree by which it fhall have been appointed after the third reading to decide definitively.

X. The King fhall refufe his fanction to decrees, whofe preamble fhall not atteft the obfervance of the above forms; if any of thofe decrees be fanctioned, the minifters fhall neither put to it the feal, nor promulgate it, and their refponfibility in this repect fhall continue fix years:

XI. Excepting from thefe regulations, decrees recogifed, and declared urgent by a previous deliberation of the Legislative Body; but they may be modified, or revoked, in the courfe of the fame feffion,

SECTION III.

OF THE ROYAL SANCTION.

f. The Decrees of the Legislative Body are prefented to the King, who may refuse them his affent.

IL. In the cafe of a refufal of the Royal Affent, that refufal is only fuspensive. When the two following Legislatures shall fute lively prefent the fame decree in the fame terms in which it was originally conceived, the King fhall be deemed to have given his fandtion.

II. The affent of the King is expreffed to each decree, by the following formula, figned by the King; The King confents; and will caufe it to be executed:

The fufpenfive refufal is thus expreffed : The King will examine.

IV. The King is bound to exprefs his affent or refufal to each decree within two months after it thall have been prefented; after that period, his filence fhal be deemed a refufal.

V. No Decree to which the King has refufed his affent can be prefented to him by the fame Legislature.

VI. The Legislative Body cannot infert in Decrees relative to the establishment or continuation of Impofts, any regulation foreign to that fubject, nor prefent, at the

fame time, for fanction, other Decrees as if• feparable.

VII. The Decree fanctioned by the King, and thofe which have been prefented to him, by three fucceffive Legislatures alone have the force, and bear the name and title of Laws.

VIII. Exempting however from fan&tion thofe acts of the Legislative Body, which relate to its Constitution, as a deliberating Affembly;

Its interior Police:

The verification of the powers of the members prefent :

The injunctions to abfent members: The Convocation of the Primary Affem. blies in cafe of delay:

The ex rcife of Conftitutional Superintendance over the Administration:

Questions of eligibility or the validity of elections:

Exempting likewife from fan&tión, acts relative to the refponfibility of Minifters; and all Decrees importing that there is ground of accusation.

SECTION IV,

CONNECTION OF THE LEGISLATIVE BODY

WITH THE KING.

I. 'When the Legislative Body is definitively constituted, it shall send a Deputa tion to inform the King. The King may every year open the Seffion, and propose the objects, which, during its continuance, he thinks ought to be taken into confideration; this form, however, is not to be confidered as neceffary to the activity of the Legislative Body.

II. When the Legislative Body wishes to a ljourn longer than fifteen days, it is bound to inform the King, by a Deputation, at least eight days previous to the adjourn

ment.

II. Eight days, at least, before the end of each Seffion, the Legiflative Body shail fend a Deputation to the King, to announce to him the day on which it propofes to terminate its fitting: the King may come in order to close the Seffion.

IV. If the King finds it of importance to the welfare of the State, that the Sellion be continued, or that the adjournment be put off, or take place only for a fhorter time, he may send a message to this effect, on which the Legislative Body is bound to deliber

VI. Whenever the King fhall vilit the place of meeting of the Legidative Body, he fhall be received, and conducted back by a Deputation; he cannot be accompanied into the inner part of the Hall by any ex tept Minuters."

VII. The Prefident can in no cafe form part of a deputation.

VIII. The Legiflative Body fhall ceafe to be a Deliberating Body, whilft the King thall be prefent.

IX. The acts of correfpondence of the King with the Legislative Body, fhall be always counterfigned by a Minifter.

X. The Ministers of the King fhall have admiffion into the Legiflative National Alfembly-they all have a particular place; they fhall be heard on all the fubjects on which they demand a hearing, and as often as they fhall be called upon to give explana tions.

I. The Supreme Executive power refides exclusively in the hands of the King:

The King is the Supreme Head of the general administration of the kingdom; the care of watching over the maintenance of public order and tranquillity is entrusted to him:

The King is the Supreme Head of the land and fea forces:

To the King is delegated the care of watching over the exterior fecurity of the kingdom, and of maintaining its rights and poffeffions.

II. The King names Ambaffadors, and the other Agents of the Political Negoci''ations;

He bestows the command of armies and fleets, and the ranks of Marshal of France and Admirals;

. He names two thirds of the Rear-admirals, one half of the Lieutenant-generals, Camp-marhals, Captains of ships, and Colonels of the National Gendarmerie;

He names a third of the Colonels and Lieutenant-colonels, and a fixth of the Lieutenants of hips:

The whole in conformity to the laws with respect to promotion,

He appoints in the Civil Administration of the Marine, the Directors, the Comptrollers, the Treafurers of the Arfenals, the Masters of Works, the Under-mailers of Civil Buildings, haif of the Mafters of Administration, and of the Under-masters of Construction;

He appoints the Commiffaries of the Tribunals

He appoints the Commiffioners of the National Treafury, and the Superintendants / VOL. XIV. No. 80.

in the chief of the management of contributions indirect;

He fuperintends the coinage of money, and appoints the officers entrusted with this fuperintendance in the general commiffion and the mints;

The effigy of the king is ftruck on all the coinage of the kingdom.

III. The King orders letters patent, brevets, and commiffions to be delivered to all the public officers that ought to receive them.

IV. The King orders a lift of penfions and gratifications to be made out, for the purpofe of being prefented to the Legislative Body each Seffion.

SECTION I.

OF THE PROMULGATION OF LAWS.

I. The executive power is entrusted with ordering the Seal of State to be put to Laws, and caufing them to be promulgated.

II. Two copies of each law fhall be made, both figned by the King, counterfigned by the Minister of Juftice, and fealed with the Seal of State;

The one fhall be deposited in the archives of the Seal, and the other fhall be fent to the archives of the Legislative Body.

III. The promulgation of Laws fhall be in thefe terms:

"N, (the King's name) by the grace of "God, and the conftitutional law of the "State, King of the French, to all prefent "and to come, greeting. The National Aflembly has decreed, and we will and "ordain as follows: