APPENDIX to the CHRONICLE. 
tpon its requisition, or with its 
authority. 
qo. There is about the legisla- 
tive body a guard of citizens taken 
from the sedentaty national guard of 
all the departments, and chosen by 
their brothers in arms. This guard 
cannot be less than 1500 men in 
activity of service. 
41s The legislative body deter- 
mines the mode and duration of 
this service. 
_ 92. The legislative body attends 
no public ceremony, dnd sends thi. 
ther no deputation. 
ce rnd of Five Hundred. 
43. The council of five hundred 
is invariably fixed at this number. 
44. Yo be elected a member of 
the council of five hundred, aman 
must be thirty years of age com. 
plete, and have been domictliated 
upon the territory of the republic 
during the ten yeats which imme- 
diately preceded the election. The 
condition of being thirty years of 
age shall not be requirable before 
the seventh year of the republic; 
till that period, the age of twenty- 
five years shall be sufficient. 
75. Ehe council of five hundred 
catnot deliberate, if its sittings be 
pot composed of two hundred mem- 
bers at least.. 
76. The proposing of laws ap. 
pertains exclusively to the council 
of fivehundred,  ~ 
_. 77+ No proposition can be de- 
bated or resolved upon in the coun- 
cil of five hundred, without ob. 
sérving the following forms :—The 
" pfopositionis read three times; the 
interval between two of these 
teadings cannot be less than ten 
days, The discussion is opened af. 
ter ench readitig; and, neverthe.: 
§3 
less, after the first or the second 
teadingy the council of five huns 
dred may declare that there is 
ground for adjournment, or, that 
there is fot ground for deliberat- 
ing. Every proposition must be 
ptinted and distributed two days 
before the second teading. Aftet 
the third teading, the council of 
five hundred decides whether. of 
not there be ground for adjourn. 
raent, 
78. No ptoposition, which, bee 
ing submitted to discussion, has 
been definitively rejected after the 
third reading, cati be te-produced 
till after the revolution of a year. 
79. The propositions adopred by 
the council of fivé hundred dre 
called Seas thcahied 
80. The preamble of every reso. 
lution sets forth,—1. Fhe dates of 
the sittings in which the three 
readings of the proposition took 
place. —2. The at by which it was 
declared, after the third reading, 
that thefe was not ground for ad. 
journment. 
8+, Are exempted from the forms 
prescribed by article 77, Proposi« 
tions recognized as urgent, by a 
previous declaration of the council 
of five hundred. This declaration 
sets forth the motives of urgency, 
and mention is made of it in the 
preamble of the resolution. 
Council of Elders. 
82. The council of eldersis com: 
posed of two hundred and -fifty 
members. 
83. No man can be elefted a 
member of the council of elders— 
If he be not forty years of age com. 
plete; if he be not married, or a 
widower ; and, if he has not been 
domiciliated on the territory of the 
Gz republic, 
