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AMERICAN HISTORICAL A$SOCIATION.
CH.APTER V
'OF THE LEGISLATURE
Art. 37 The legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress to be composed of a Chamber of Deputies, and a Senate.
CHAMDEll OF DEPUTIES
Art. 38 The chamber ·of Deputies shall be composed of members elected every two years by the people. Art. 39 The number of Deputies shall be one for every 30000 inhabitants: but every Province shall have at least one deputy. Art. 40 Congress have power to a]ter the ratio established in the lust artic]e as they think proper. • • ' • • Art. 41 To be a Deputy in this chamber it requires to be a citizen in the enjoyment of his rights; over twenty fi._ve years of age, a native or inhabitant of the 'provinc·e fo1: which elected, of sound morality good reputation; accredited · pntr"iotism, posessed of sufficient real estate for a decent rnainten;mce, instructed in: the principles of national and civii jurisprudence, or·in the elements of agriculture, Mining, ::Manufactures, or Commei·ce, in order to the more successful} discharge of the high.and sacred duties of the Station. Art. 42 Province~ which_send not more than ten Deputies may elect one secula'r ecles_iastic; Provinces which send more than ten, and not ~ver twenty deputies~may elect · two secular eclesiastics; Provinces which send more than twenty, and not over thirty depu- ties may elect thi·ee secular eclesiustics; •ai1d so on in the same pro- portion; but a greater number ·of eclesiastics than this shall never be sent by any Province • • • Art. 43 Shoufd a greater number of ec}esia.stics be elected than is permitted in the preceding article, the_chamber of deputies shall de- cide which shall be dismissed, so as to reduce the number to that prescribed, - The corresponding suplenties shall fill the cavancies [vacancies?] thus occasioned;· but should the suplente also be an eclesiastic, the chamber .shall order a new election for the district which is thus left without a representative, declaring in said order that an eclesiastic should not be elected for ·said district for· that co~- gress. . Art 44 Should.it happen that a person is elected for' the Province in which he was born. and also for that in which he _resides; he shal1 take the seat for the latter, and the ·corresponding suplente shall· represent the former. '.l'he same shall be cl01~e in·?as'e a person should· be elected for two districts of the same Province when he resides in one of them; but ·should he reside in neither of the districts for
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