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APPENDIX to the CHRONICLE. 
day, both to the council of five hun- 
dred, and to the executive directory. 
102. The council of elders may 
change the residence of the legis- 
lative body: it points out, in this 
case, a new place, and the period 
at which the two councils are 
bound to repair to ir. he decree 
of the council of elders upon this 
subject is irrevocable. 
‘103. On and after the day of 
this decree, neither of the councils 
can deliberate any more in the 
commune where they had till then 
resided. ‘The members who shall 
there continue their fun¢tions shall 
render themselves guilty of an of- 
fence against the safety of the re- 
public. 
104. The members of the execu- 
tive direftory who shall retard, or 
refuse to seal, promulgate, and dis- 
patch, the decree of the transiation 
of the legislative body, shall be 
guilty of the same crime. 
105. Lf, within twenty days after 
that fixed by the council of elders, 
the majority of each of the two 
councils has not made known. to 
the republic its arrival at the new 
place pointed out, or its meeting 
in some other place, the adminis- 
_trators of department, or, in their 
default, the civil tribunals of de- 
partment, convoke the primary as- 
semblies to nominate electors, who 
proceed immediately to the forma- 
tion of a new legislative body, by 
the election of 250 deputies for the 
council of elders, and of five hun- 
dred for the other council. 
106. The administrators of de- 
partment who, in the case of the 
preceding article, fail to convoke 
the primary assemblies, render 
themselves guilty of high treason, 
and of an offence against the safety 
of the republic, = 
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1o7. Are declared guilty of the 
same crime, all citizens who oppose 
any obstacle to the convocation of 
the primary and eleCtoral assem. 
blics in the case of article 106. 
108. The members of the new 
legislative body, assemble in the 
place to which the council of elders. 
had transferred the sittings: © If 
they canrot meet in that place, in 
whatever place the majority is, 
there is the legislative body. 
10g. Except in the case of article 
To2, no proposition of law can ori, 
ginate in the council of elders. 
Of the Guarantee of the Members of 
the Legislative Bidy. 
110. The citizens who are, or 
who have been, members of the le- 
gisiative body, cannot be examined, 
accused, or tried at any time, for 
what they have said or written in 
the exercise of their fun¢tions. 
' 111. The members of the legis- 
lative body, from the moment of 
their nomination to the thirtieth 
day after the expiration of their 
functions, cannot be brought to 
trial, bat according to the forms 
prescribed by the following articles. 
112. They may, for criminal 
atts, be seized in fagrante delicto ; 
but notice is given of it, without 
delay, to the legislative body ; and 
the prosecution cannot be continued 
till after the council of five hun- 
dred has proposed the bringing to 
trial, and the council of elders has 
decreed it. 
113. Except in the case of ffa- 
gras delium, the members of the 
legislative body cannot be. carried 
before the officers of police, or put 
in a state of arrest, before the coun- 
cil of five hundred has proposed 
the bringing to trial, and the coun- 
cil of elders has decseediit. £9 
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