;H2 MEXICO. 
derived from actual capital, industry, or honest personal labor. In addition 
to these requirements, no one will be allowed to vote, after the year 1850, 
unless he is able to read and write. 
The rights of citizenship are suspended (among other disqualifications,) 
by domestic servitude, habitual intemperance, taking of religious vows, 
Iceeping of prohibited gaming-houses, and fraudulqnt bankruptcy. 
The Legislative power is defined by the fourth Title. This power is to 
reside in a Congress, divided into a Chamber of Deputies and a Senate. 
The Chamber of Deputies is to be composed of individuals elected by 
the Electoral Colleges of the Departments, in a manner which will be 
hereafter specified, and in the ratio of one for seventy thousand inhabitants. 
The Departments which have not so many residents shall, nevertheless, 
be entitled to a Deputy, and there shall likewise be one for every frac- 
tion over thirty-five thousand. It is required, that a Deputy shall be 
thirty years of age, and possessed of an annual income of twelve hundred 
dollars. A moiety of the Chamber is to be renewed every two years. 
The Senate is to be composed of sixty-three mem'bers, two-thirds of 
whom are to be elected by the Departmental Assemblies, and the other 
third by the Chamber of Deputies, the President of the Republic, and the 
Supreme Court of Justice. One-third of this body is to be renewed bien- 
nially. The Departmental Assemblies are to select five persons from 
each of the classes of agriculturists, miners, proprietors or merchants, and 
manufacturers ; the rest of the quota to be chosen by them from distin- 
guished individuals. Those who are to be appointed by the President and 
the Supreme Court, are to be taken from among individuals who have 
signalized themselves in the civil, military, and ecclesiastical career. 
Senators must possess an annual income of two thousand dollars. 
The Congress, so constituted, will sit twice a year for the space of three 
months, commencing its terms on the 1st of January and 1st of July Its 
members are not allowed to obtain place or preferment from the Govern- 
ment, except for the most imperative reasons. 
A third body, called the Permanent Deputation, is to be formed by this 
Congress, and will be composed of four members of the Senate and five 
of the Cham.ber, whose term of office shall continue until the next meet- 
ing of the National Assembly and the election of their successors. The 
duty of this Permanent Deputation is to call extra sessions of Congress 
whenever they may be decreed by the Government, and to receive the 
certificates of the election of President of the Republic, Senators, and 
Ministers of the Supreme Court of Justice. 
The fifth Title defines the Executive Power, which is confided for five 
years to a President, Avho must be a Mexican by birth, in the full enjoy- 
ment of all his rights of citizenship, more than forty years of age, and a 
resident of the Republic at the time of his election. 
