Constitution of Hayti. 
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161. The primary assemblies and the electoral colleges can 
have no other object but the elections respectively assigned to 
them by the Constitution. 
They are bound to dissolve when this is accomplished. 
TITLE IY. 
OB' THE FINANCES. 
162. No tax for the benefit of the State can be established, 
but by law. 
Taxes for the use of communes and arrondissements are 
established by special laws. 
163. No privileges can be granted in the matter of taxes. 
No exception or abatement of taxes can be established, except 
by a law. 
164. Except in cases formally excepted by law, no contribu¬ 
tion can be levied from the citizens, unless as a tax for the use 
of the State, of the arrondissement, or of the commune. 
165. No pension, no gratuity, chargeable to the public treas¬ 
ury, can be granted, except in accordance with a law. 
166. The budget of each Secretary of State is divided iilto 
chapters. No sum allowed for one chapter can be carried to the 
credit of another, and employed for other expenses, without a 
law. 
167. Every year, the Chambers decree, 1st. The account of 
receipts and expenses during the year or preceding years, for 
each department separate; 2d. The general budget of the State 
containing details of the receipts, and the funds assigned for the 
year to each Secretary of State. 
Nevertheless, no motion, no amendment, can be introduced 
into the budget, to the end of reducing or augmenting the sala¬ 
ries of the public functionaries, and the pay of the soldiers, 
already paid by special laws. 
168. The Chamber of Accounts is composed of a certain 
number of members fixed by law. 
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