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CHAPTER I. 
OF THE LEGISLATIVE POWER. 
SECTION I. 
Of the Chamber of Representatives. 
50. The chamber of deputies is composed of representatives 
from the arrondissements of the Republic. 
The number of the representatives shall be fixed by law. 
Each arrondissement shall have at least two representatives. 
51. Until the law shall have fixed the number of representa¬ 
tives to be elected by the arrondissements, this number is 
settled as follows: 
Five for the arrondissement of Port-au-Prince, three for each 
of the arrondissements which have chief towns of departments, 
and for those of Jacmel and Jeremie, and two for each of the 
other arrondissements of the Republic. 
52. The representatives are elected as follows : 
Every five years, from the 10th to 20th January, the 
primary assemblies of the communes meet, in conformity with 
the electoral law, and name each three electors. 
53. From the 1st to 10th February, the electors of the com¬ 
munes of each arrondissement meet in the chief town, and form 
an electoral college. 
The college names, by ballot, and by absolute majority of 
votes, the number of representatives to be supplied by the 
arrondissement. 
It names as many substitutes as representatives. 
54. These substitutes, by order of nomination, succeed the 
representatives of the arrondissement in case of death, resigna¬ 
tion, forfeiture, or in the case provided by the article 60. 
55. The half at least of the representatives and substitutes 
shall be chosen among the citizens who have their political 
domicile in the arrondissement. 
