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tive in the house of parliament, or 

 by a special commission in case of 

 sickness. 



Art. 9. The form of the sanction 

 shall be, the k':7ig approves ; tiiat of 

 refusal, ihe king ivUl examine ; the 

 bills sanctioned by the king are 

 named acts of pariiament. 



Art. 10. No member of parlia- 

 ment shall be called to account, or 

 punished by the king's servants, for 

 the opinions manifested, or the doc- 

 trines professed in the house, or by 

 any other authority whatever, ex- 

 cept by that of the house itself. 



Art. 11. The president of the 

 parliament has a right of calling to 

 order any of its members, when he 

 may think proper. The house may 

 censure, arrest, and imprison, any 

 of its own members, during the 

 session. 



CHAPTER V. 



Upon ihe exercise of the executive 

 porjier. 



Article 1. The king shall have 

 his immediate representative in Cor- 

 sica, with the title of vice-roy. 



Art. 2. The vice-roy shall hr.ve 

 the power of giving his sanction or 

 refusal to the decrees of parliament. 



Art. 3. He shall moreover have 

 the power to perform, in the king's 

 name, all the acts of government 

 which are within the limits of the 

 .royal authority : — There shall be a 

 board of council and a secretary of 

 state, nominated by the king, and 

 mention shall be made in the vice- 

 roy's orders, that he has taken the 

 opinion of the said board of coun- 

 cil ; and these orders shall be coun- 

 ter-signed by the secretary. 



Art. 4. The nation has the right 

 of petitioning, as well the vice- 



roy as the house of parliament :' the 

 constituted and acknowledged corps 

 of the law may petition in a body, 

 the other corps in their individual 

 capacity only ; and a petition r.hall 

 never be prtsented by more than 

 twenty persons, however numerous 

 may he the signatures to it. 



Art. r). Tiie houseof parlinment 

 may address the king to recal his 

 vicc-roy ; in such case the house 

 sliall r.ddrcsshis majesty in his f rivy- 

 council assembled: the vice-roy shall 

 be obliged to transmit theaddressto 

 tiie king, upon the requisition of the 

 house, within the term of fifteen 

 days after such requisition, and the 

 house may itself transmit it to the 

 king, even through the channel of 

 a deputation; but in any case the 

 house is bound to present to the 

 vice-roy, fifteen days previous to 

 the departure of the address, a copv 

 of the same, and of the papeca 

 which are to accompany it. 



Art. 6. The king has the exclu- 

 sive direction of all military ar- 

 rangements, and is to provide for 

 the internal and external security 

 of the country. 



Art. 7. The king declares war 

 and makes peace : he shall not be 

 authorized, however, in any event, 

 nor on any account whatsoever, to 

 give up, alienate, or in any man- 

 ner prejudice, the unity and indi- 

 visibility of Corsica and its depen- 

 dencies. 



Art. 8. The king shall appoint 

 to all the offices of government. 



Art. 9. The ordinary employ- 

 ments of justice, and of the admi- 

 nistration of the public money, shall 

 be conferred upon natives of Cor- 

 sica, or persons naturalized Corsi- 

 cans, in virtue of the laws, 



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