sO 
er communal assembly, beyond the 
abject of its convocation, and 
against the forms dete*mined by the 
constitution, is null, 
30. The assemblies, whether pri- 
mary or communal, 
tions but those which are attributed 
se them by the constitutional ac. 
31. All the elections are made 
by secret ballor. 
3z. Every citizen whois legally 
conwited of having sold or boaght 
a suftrago, is excluded from the 
primary rand communal assemblies, 
asd from all public functions, for 
twenty years; in case of a second 
offence, he is excluded for ever. 
Mle IV.—EE oral Assemblies. 
33 Each primary assembly no- 
minates ane elector for 200 citi- 
zens, present. or absent, having a 
sight to vote in the said assembly. 
Te the number of 300 citizens in- 
elusively, but one elector is nomi- 
nated. YTwoarenominated, fortrom 
301 to 500; three, for from go1 to 
700; four, for trom Jor to goo. 
34. The members of the electo- 
ral assemblies are nominated every 
year, and cannot be re-elected till 
after an interval of two years. 
35. No man ¢an be nominated 
an eleétor if he be not twenty-five 
years of age, and if he do not unite 
xo the qualifications, necessarv for 
exercising the rights of a F French ci- 
tizen, one ct the following condi- 
tions, viz. In communes of more 
than 6000 inhabitants, that of be- 
ing proprietor or having the ssufru@ 
of a property valued at a revenue 
auat to the lecal value of two hun- 
dred days’ labour; or being lesseey. 
either of a habitation valued at a 
revenue equal to the value of one 
= idred and fifty days’ labour, or 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
make no eléc.. 
of a rural property, valued at ore 
hundred and fifty days’ labour, Isr 
communes of less than 6000 inha- 
bitants, that of being proprietor 
or having the usxfrué of a property; 
valued at a fevenue equal, to the 
Jocal value of 1g0 days’ labour; 
or of being lessée, either of a habi- 
tation valued at a revenue equal to 
the value of roo days’ labour, or of 
arural property v valued at 100 days’ 
Kibour. And in the country, that 
of being proprietor or having the 
nsufru oF a property seh ata 
revenue equal to the local value 
of 150 days’ labour, or af being the 
renter (Fermier ou Moetay cr*, ) of 
property valued at 200 days’ labour # 
With respect to those who may be 
proprietags, or have the usufrud of 
one property, and be lessees or ren- 
ters of another, their means under 
both heads shall be taken cumula- 
tively, to make out the necessary 
qualification for being eligible. 
36. The ele€oral assembly of 
each department meets on the 2oth 
Germinal (April gth) of each year, 
and terminates in one single ses 
sion of ten days at most, and with- 
out the power of adjourning, all 
the elections to be made; after 
which it is dissolved of full right. 
37 The electoral assemblies can- 
not employ themselyes upon any 
object foreign to the election with 
which they 2 are charged; they can 
neither send nor receive any ade 
ress, any petition, any deputation, 
38. The eletoral assemblies cans. 
not correspond with one another. 
39- No citizen, having. been 2a 
member of an electoral assembly, 
ean take the title of elector, ot 
‘meet in this quality with those 
who have been members of the 
same assembly with him, The 
* Metoyer is a person who rents both a farm and the stock upon it. 
contray ention 
