When the two following legislatures which fhall follow that in which the decree was prefented, fhall fucceffively re-prefent the fame decree in the fame terms in which it was originally conceived, the king fhall be deemed to have given his fanction.

III. The affent of the king is expreffed to each decree, by the following formula, figned by the king: The king confents, and will cause it to be executed.

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

IV. The king is bound to express his affent, or refufal, to each decree, within two months after it fhall have been prefented.

V. No decree to which the king has refused his affent, can be prefented to him by the fame legislature.

VI. The decrees fanctioned by the king, and those which have been prefented to him by three fucceffive legiflatures, alone have the force of a law, and bear the name and title of laws.

VII. There shall be, however, executed as laws without being subjected to sanction, those acts of the legislative body which relate to its conftitution as a deliberating affembly.

Its interior police, and that which it may exercise in the external space, which it fhall haye determined;

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The verification of the powers of the members prefent;

The injunctions to absent members;

The convocation of the primary affemblies in cafe of delay;

The exercise of conftitutional fuperintendence over the adminiftrators and municipal officers;

Questions of eligibility, or the validity of elections.

Exempting likewife from fanction, acts relative to the responsibility of ministers, and all decrees importing that there is ground of ac

cufation.

VIII. The decrees of the legislative body, concerning the establishment, prorogation, and collection of public contributions, fhall bear the name and title of laws; they fhall be promulgated and executed without being subject to fanction, except with refpect to those difpofitions, which should establish other penalties than pecuniary fines and constraints.

Thefe decrees cannot be paffed but after the obfervation of the formalities prescribed by the articles 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, of Sect. II. of the present chapter: and the legislative body shall not infert in them any difpofitions foreign to their object.

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SECTION IV.

Connection of the Legislative Body with the King.

I. WHEN the legislative body is definitively conftituted, it fhall fend a deputation to inform the king. The king may every year open the feffion, and propofe the objects, which, during its continuance, he thinks ought to be taken into confideration; this form, however, is not to be confidered as necessary to the activity of the legislative body.

II. When the legislative body wishes to adjourn longer than fifteen days, it is bound to inform the king, by a deputation, at least eight days previous.

III. A week, at leaft, before the end of each feffion, the legislative body shall send a deputation to the king, to announce to him the day on which it propofes to terminate its fittings, The king may come, in order to close the feffion.

IV. If the king find it of importance to the welfare of the State, that the feffion be continued, or that the adjournment be put off, or take place only for a fhorter time, he may fend a meffage to this effect, on which the legislative body is bound to deliberate,

V. The king shall convoke the legislative body, during the interval of its feffion, at all times when the intereft of the State shall appear to him to require it, as well as in those cafes which the legislative body shall have foreseen and determined, previous to their adjournment.

VI. Whenever the king shall vifit the place of meeting of the legislative body, he shall be received and conducted back by a deputation; he cannot be accompanied into the inner part of the hall by any except the prince royal and the ministers.

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

VIII, The legislative body shall cease to be a deliberating body whilst the king shall be present. IX. The acts of correfpondence of the king with the legislative body, fhall be always counterfigned by a minister.

X. The ministers of the king shall have admiffion into the national legislative affembly; they shall have a place affigned them; they shall be heard always when they demand it on objects relative to their administration, or when they fhall be required to give information. They fhall also be heard on objects foreign to their administration, when the national affembly shall grant them liberty to speak,

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CHA P. IV.

OF THE EXERCISE OF THE EXECUTIVE POWER.

I.

HE fupreme executive

THE

power refides ex

clufively in the hands of the king.

The king is the fupreme head of the general adminiftration of the kingdom: the care of watching over the maintenance of public order and tranquillity is entrusted to him.

The king is the fupreme 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 political negotiations.

He beftows the command of armies and fleets, and the ranks of Marshal of France and Admiral.

He names two thirds of the rear-admirals, one half of the lieutenant-generals, camp marshals, captains of fhips, and colonels of the national gendarmerie.

He names a third of the colonels and lieutenant-colonels, and a fixth of the lieutenants of ships-the whole in conformity to the laws with refpect to promotion,

He