APPENDIX to the CHRONICLE. 
body, within two days after their 
reception. 
. 129. It ‘causes to seal and pro- 
mulgate within the day, the laws 
and atts of the legislative body, 
which are preceded by a decree of 
urgency. 
130. The publication of the laws 
and atts of the legislative body is 
ordained in the following form: 
“* Inthe name of the French re- 
*€ public (law) or (act) of the Jegis- 
** lative body.—Whe directory or- 
*€ dains that the above law or act 
of the legislative body shall be 
' * published, executed, and the 
** seal of the republic shall be af- 
‘* fixed to it.’’- 
131. Laws of which the pream- 
ble does not attest the observance 
of the forms prescribed by articles 
. Seventy-seven and ninety-one, can- 
not be promulgated by the execu- 
tive directory, and its responsibility 
in this respe¢t lasts for six years. 
Ate excepted, the laws for which 
the act of urgency has been approv- 
ed by the council of elders. 
Title VI.—Executive Piwer. 
132. The executive power is 
delegated to a directory of five 
_ members, nominated by the legisla- 
tive body, performing the functions 
of an ele¢toral assembly in the name 
of the nation. 
133. The council of five hun. 
dred forms, by secret ballot, a list 
ten times the number of the mem- 
bers of the directory to be nomi- 
mated, and presents it to the coun- 
cil of elders, who choose by secret 
ballot also, out of this list, 
'~ 134. The members of the direc- 
tory must be forty years of age at 
least. ‘ 
135. They cannot be taken but 
from among the citizens whe have 
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been members of the legislative 
body or ministers, The disposition 
of this article shall not be observed 
till the commencement of the ninth 
year of the republic. 
136. From the first day of the 
ninth year of the republic, the 
members of the legislative body 
cannot be eleéted members of the 
directory, or ministers, either dur. 
ing the-conrinuance of their legis. 
lative functions, or during the first 
year after the expiration of those’ 
funtions. ; 
137. The dire€tory is partially 
renewed by the eleétion of a new 
member every year. -Lot shall de. 
cide, during the first four years, 
upon the successive going out of 
those nominated the first time. 
138. None of the members going 
out can be re-elected till after an 
interval of five years. 
139. The ascendantiand the de- 
scendant, in direét line; the bro- 
ther, the uncle, and the nephew, 
cousins in the first degree, and con, 
nexions by marriage in the same dez 
grees, cannot be members of the 
directory at the same time, nor 
succeed one another in it, till after 
an interval of five years, 
140. Inthe case of vacancy, the 
death, or otherwise, ‘of amember of- 
the directory, his su¢cessor is elects 
ed by the legislative body within 
ten days at most. The council of 
five hundred is bound to propose 
the candidates within the first five 
days, and the council of elders 
must complete the ele¢tion within 
the last five days. The new mem- 
ber is not elected but for the ree 
maining period of the person he 
succeeds, If, however, this does 
not exceed six months, he who is 
ele¢ted shall continue in office for 
five years and a half, 
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