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ANNUAL REGISTEll, 1804. 



conformably to the provisions of 

 article 92, title 13, of the high impe- 

 rial court. 68. The functions of a 



member of each of the senatorial 

 commissions cease at the expiration 

 of four months. — 69. Tiie projets de 

 lois decreed by the legislative body, 

 are transmitted to the senate on the 

 day of their adoption, and are de- 

 posited in the arcliives. — 70. Every 

 decree issued by the legislative body 

 may be denounced in tlie senate by 

 any of the members thereof: 1. As 

 tending to restore the feudal system ; 

 2. As atfe6ting the sale of the na- 

 tional domains ; 3. As having been 

 issued conti-ary to the forms pre- 

 scribed by the constitutions of the 

 empire, &c. — 71. In the course of 

 six days after the adoption of the 

 projet de loi, the senate, after de- 

 liberating upon the report of a spe- 

 cial commission, and hearing the 

 decree read three times at three sit- 

 tings held on separate days, may 

 declare its oj)inion as to the propriety 

 of promulgating the said law. The 

 president lays the decision of the 



senate before the emperor. 72. 



The emperor, afterhearing the coun- 

 cil of state, either declares by a de- 

 cree his adherence to the deliber- 

 ation of the senate, or causes the 

 law to be promulgated. — 73. Every 

 •such law not promulgated before 

 the expiration of ten days, cannot 

 be promulgated unless it has been 

 again deliberated on, and adopted 

 by the legislative body. — 74. The 

 entire operations of an electoral 

 college, as well as its partial opera- 

 tions relative to the presentation of 

 candidates to the senate, the legis- 

 lative body, or the tribunate, can 

 only be annulled, on the ground of 

 their being unconstitutional, by an 

 iixpress scnatus cunsuUuiu, 



r/tle IX.~Of/he Council of Stale. 

 75. When the council of state is 

 deliberating upon a projet de loi, 

 &c. two thirds of the members in 

 ordinary service must be present. 

 The number of members present 

 can never be less than twenty-five, 

 — 76. The council of state is divid- 

 ed into six se6tions ; viz. the section 

 of legislation, the section of the in- 

 terior, the section of finance, the j 

 section of war, the section of ma- 

 rine, and the section of commerce. 

 — 77. When a member of the coun- 

 cil of state has been five years upon 

 the list of members in ordinary ser- 

 vice, he receives the rank of coun- 

 sellor of state for life. When he 

 ceases to be on the list of the council 

 of stat.! in ordinary or extraordi- 

 nary service, he is only entitled to 

 one third of the salary attached to 

 the olEce. 



Title X. Of thr Legislative Body. 

 78. The members of the legisla- 

 tive body may be re-eledted without 

 interval. — 79. Every projet de loi 

 presented to the legislative body is 

 returned to the three se6tions of 

 the tribunate. — SO. The sittings of 

 the legislative body are divided into 

 ordinary sittings and general com- 

 mittees. 81. Ordinary sitting* 



are composed of members of the 

 legislative body, orators of the coun- 

 cil of state, and orators of the three 

 seftions of the tribunate. General 

 committees are composed only of 

 members of the legislative body. The 

 president of the legislative body pre- 

 sides both at. the ordinary sittings 

 and general commitees. — 82. At an 

 ordinary sitting, the legislative body 

 hear the orators of the counsel of 

 state, and also the orators of three 

 se6tions of the tribunate, and votes 

 on the projet de loi. In a general ■ 



committee, ^ 



