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by the departments and the colonies, and seventy- 

 five by the National Assembly. 



CLAUSE 2 designates the number of Senators to 

 be elected by each department. 



CLAUSE 3. No one to be elected Senator unless he 

 be a Frenchman of at least forty years of age, and 

 in full enjoyment of his civil and political rights. 



CLAUSE 4. The Senators of the departments and 

 the colonies to be elected by an absolute majority, 

 and conjointly, where there is more than one, by an 

 Electoral College, consisting of Deputies, General 

 Councils, Councils of Districts, delegates elected by 

 each Municipal Council among the electors of the 

 Commune. 



CLAUSE 5. The Senators nominated by the Assem- 

 bly to be elected by an absolute majority of votes 

 by scrutin de Hate. 



CLAUSE 6. At the beginning of the first session 

 the department will be divided into three classes, 

 each containing an equal number of Senators. It 

 will be decided by lot which class is to retire on the 

 expiration of the first triennial period, and which on 

 the expiration of the second triennial period. 



CLAUSE 7. The Senate to have conjointly with the 

 Chamber of Deputies the right of initiating and 

 framing laws. Nevertheless, financial laws must be 

 first presented to and voted by the Chamber of Dep- 

 uties. 



t CLAUSE 8. The Senate may be constituted a judi- 

 cial court to try either the President of the Eepublic 

 or the ministers, and to take cognizance of plots 

 against the safety of the state. 



CLAUSE 9. The Senate will be elected one month 

 previous to the day fixed by the National Assembly 

 for its dissolution. The Senate will enter on its du- 

 ties and will constitute > itself on the day that the 

 National Assembly is dissolved. 



The following list gives the number of Sena- 

 tors to be elected by each department, as well 

 as the number and classification of the electors : 



DEPARTMENTS. 



Indre-et- Loire ' 2 



Isere j 3 



Jura [ 2 



Landes 2 



Loir-et-Cher 2 



Loire j 3 



Loire (Haute-) 2 



Loire-Inferieure 3 



Loiret 2 



Lot ! 2 



Lot-et-Garonne j 2 



Lozere I 2 



Maine-et-Loire 



Manche 



Marne 



. Marne (Haute) 



Mayenne 



Meurthe-et-Moselle... 



Meuse 



Morbihan . . . 



Nievre 



Nord 



Oise 



Orne 



Pas-de-Calais 



Puy-de-D6me 



Pyrenees (Basses-). 

 Pyrenees (Hautes-) 

 Pyren6es-Orientales 



Rhin(H.) 



Rhone 



Sadne (Haute-) 



8aone-et- Loire 



Sarthe 



Savoie 



Savoie (Haute-) 



Seine 



Seine-et-Marue 



Seine-et-Oise 



Seine-Inferieure 



Sevres (Deux-) 



Somme 



Tarn 



Tarn-et-Garonne 



Var 



Vaucluse 



Vendee 



Vienne 



Vienne (Haute-) 



Vosges 



Yonne . . . 



Total. 



2 IS 



SENATORIAL ELECTORS. 



The three departments of Algeria, and the 

 four colonies, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Re- 

 union, and the French Indies, will also elect 

 one Senator each. 



On March 1st the bureau of the National 

 Assembly was reflected. M. Benoist d'Azy, 

 the senior deputy, presided. At the election 

 for the president 532 members voted, and of 

 this number 479 gave their support to M. Buf- 

 fet, who had never before had so large a ma- 

 jority. He gained more votes on the Left 

 than he lost on the Right, there being 280 

 members of the Left among his supporters. 

 His majority was composed of all the deputies 

 who voted for the constitutional bills, besides 

 some members of the Right. This demonstra- 

 tion was made with the view to show that M. 

 Buffet would have a majority in the House 

 should he accept the task of forming a min- 

 istry. The Bonapartists and Legitimists ab- 

 stained from voting. Three of the four former 



