104 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1794. 



ing to the following fundamental 

 laws. 



Art. 2. The legislative power is 

 vested in the king, and in the re- 

 . presentatives of the people, lawfully 

 elected and convened. 

 I Art. 3. Thelegislature,composed 

 ofthekingandof the representatives 

 of the people, is denominated the 

 parliament ; the assembly of the 

 representatives are styled members 

 of the parhanient. 



CHAPTER II. 



Of the mode of elections, the numher 

 of TPembers, and the functions of 

 parliament. 



Article 1. The territory shaJI be 

 divided into pieves (districts,) each 

 of which shall send two members to 

 parhament. The towns on tht coast, 

 of which the population shallainount 

 to 3C00 souls and upwards, havethe 

 right of sending two members each 

 to parliament ; the bishops who dis- 

 charge the duties of their see in 

 Corsica, and are recognized as such 

 by the Corsican nation, shall be 

 members of parliament. 



Art. 2. The members of parlia- 

 ment shall be elected by all the Cor- 

 sican citizens, yf twenty-five years 

 of age, who shall have been resi- 

 dent at least one year in the picve, 

 or in the town, and who are pos- 

 sessors of land. 



Art. 3. No person shall be elect- 

 ed a member ( f parliament, unless 

 he possesses at least GOOO livres in 

 land in the pieve which he is to re- 

 present, and pays taxes in propo;- 

 tion to this possession, and unless 

 born of a Corsican father, and bona 

 Jidean inhabitant, having kepthouse 

 for five years in the said pieve, and 

 until he has arrived at the age of 

 twenty-five. 



Art. 4'. Lodgers, except both 

 who are inmates for life, persons 

 employed in collectino the revenue, 

 the receivers and collectors of taxes, 

 those who have pensions, or who are 

 in the service of a foreign power, 

 and priests, cannoc be laembers of 

 the house of parliament. 



Art. 5. The form of election shall 

 be determined by the laws. 



Art. 6. If a memberot parliament 

 dies, or becomes incapable, accord- 

 ing to law, of being a member of 

 parliament, another member shall 

 be elected by his pieve, within fif- 

 teen days, by the king's authority. 

 Art. 7. The house of parliament 

 has the right of enacting all the 

 acts which are intended to have 

 force of law. 



Art. 8. The decrees of the house 

 of parliament shall not have force 

 of law, unless they receive the 

 king's sanction. 



Art. 9. Any decree that has not 

 passed ihe house of parliament, and 

 received the king's sanction,- sliall 

 not be looked upon as law, nor car' 

 ried into execution as such. 



Art. 10. No imposition, tax, or 

 public contribution, shall be laid 

 without the consent of parliament, 

 or without being specially granted 

 by it. 



Art. II. Parliament has the right 

 of impeachment, in the name of the 

 nation, of every agent of govern- 

 ment puiltv of prevarication before 

 the extraordmary tribunal. 



Art. 12. The cases of prevari- 

 cation shall be determined by the 

 laws. 



CHAPTER III. 



Of the duration and convocation of 

 parliament. 



Article 1. The duration of one 

 parliament shall be two years. 



Art. 



