APPENDIX to the CHRONICLE. 
echtravention of this dtticle is 
an infringement of the general 
safety 
40. Articles 18, 21, 23,.245 255 
29; 30, 31, and 32, of the preceding 
title on the primary assemblies; are 
common to the electoral assem- 
blies. 
41. The eletoral assemblies 
choose, as there may be occasion— 
1. The membets of the legislative 
body, viz. the members of the 
' council of elders; afterwards, the 
members of the council of five 
hundred, —z. ‘ The members of the 
tribunal of annvlment.—3. The 
high jurors.—4. The administra- 
tors of departmenut.—s.. The presi- 
dent, public accuser, and register 
of the criminal tribunal.—6. The 
judges of the civil tribunals. 
‘42. When a citizen is elected 
by the eleGtoral assemblies to re- 
place a funétionary who is dead, 
resigned, or removed, that citizen 
is eleéted only for the time that 
remained to the funétionary  re- 
_ placed.» 
43- The commissary of the ex. 
ecutive directory, at the administra- 
tion of each department, is bound, 
on pain of removal, to inform the 
direétory of the opening and the 
= 
‘tional act. 
closing of the electoral assemblies: 
this commissary can neither stop 
nor suspend the operations, ‘nor en- 
ter the place of sitting of the as- 
sembly ; but he has a right to de- 
mand communication of the mi- 
nutes Of each sitting within the 
twenty-four hours following; and 
he is bound: to denounce to the di- 
reftory infraétions of the constitu. 
In all cases the legis- 
lative body alone pronounces on 
the validity of the operations of 
the electoral assemblias, 
Vor, XXXVIiI. 
81 
Title V.— Legislative Power.—Ge- 
neral Lispositions. 
44. The legislative body is com- 
posed of a council of eldets, and a 
council of five hundred. 
45. The legislative body cannot, 
in any cases delegate to one or more 
of its members, or to any one whom. 
soever, any of the funétions attri- 
buted to it by the present constitu- 
tion, 
46. It.cannot exercise, by itself, 
or by delegates, the executive 
power, or the judicial authority. 
47. There is incompatibility be- 
tween the quality of member of the 
legislative body, and the exercise 
of any other public funétion, except 
that of archivist of the republic. 
48, The law determines the mode 
of the definitive or temporary re- 
placing public “fan@ionaries, who 
are eleCled members of the legisla- 
tive body. 
49. Each department cencurs, 
in proportion to its population only, 
in its nomination of membets of 
the council of elders, and of mem. 
bers» of the council of five hun. 
dred. | 
50. Every ten years of the legis- 
lative body; according to statements 
of population sent to it, determines 
the number of members of either 
council which each department 
ought to furnish. _ 
51. No change can be. made in 
this distribution duripg that intera. 
val. 
52. The members of the legisla. 
tive body are not representatives 
of the departments which nomi. 
nate them, but of the whole na- 
tion; and no instruction can be 
given them. ray 
53- Both councils are renewed 
annually by thirds, 
G 54. The 
