SEC. 2. To regulate commerce, to coin money, lo regulate the value thereof and of foreign coin, to fix the standard of weights and measures, but nothing but gold and silver shall be made a lawful tender. SEC. 3. To establish post offices and post roads, to grant charters of incorporation, patents and copy rights, and secure to the authors and inventors the exclusive use thereof for a limited time. SEC. 4. To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and to regulate captures. · SEC. 5. To provide and maintain an army and navy, and to make all laws and regulations necessary for their government. SEC. 6. To call out the militia to execute the law, lo suppress insurrections, and repel invasion. SEC. 7. To make all laws which shall be deemed necessary and proper to carry into effect the foregoing express grants of power, and all other powers vested in the government of the republic, or in any officer or department thereof. ARTICLE III. SEC. 1. The executive authority of the government shall be vested in a chief magistrate, who shall be styled the president of the republic of Texas. SEC. 2. The first president elected by the people shall hold his office for the term of two yeats, and shall be ineligible during the next succeeding term; and all subsequent presidents shall be elected for three years, and be alike ineligible; and in the event of a lie, the house of representatives shall determine between the two highest candidates by a vive voce vote. SEC. 3. The returns of the elections for president and vice president shall be sealed up and transmitted to the speaker of the house of representatives, by the holders of elections of each county; and the speaker of the house of representatives shall open and publish the returns in presence of a majority of each house of congress. ARTICLE IV. SEC. l. The judicial powers of the government shall be vested in one supreme court, and such inferior courts as the congress may, from time to time, ordain and establish. The judges of the supreme and inferior courts shall hold their offices for four years, be eligible to re-election, and shall, al slated periods, receive for their services a compensation, not to be increa$ecl or diminished during the period for which they were elected.
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