.--The President shall have the sole right to appoint
the secretaries, and in agreement with them he shall appoint all
the staff subordinate to the respective departments. Nevertheless,
in the election of individuals favouritism must be avoided on
the understanding that the good name of the Fatherland and the
triumph of the Revolution need the services of the most really
capable persons.

_Article_ 9.--The secretaries can take part in the sessions of the
Revolutionary Congress, whenever they have a motion to present in
the name of the President, or on the interpellation of any deputy,
but when the question under debate, or the motion on which they
have been summoned is put to the vote, they shall retire and not
take part in that voting.

_Article_ 10.--The President of the Government is the
personification of the Philippine people, and as such he cannot be
held responsible for any act whilst he holds that position. His
position is irrevocable until the Revolution shall triumph,
unless extraordinary circumstances should compel him to tender
his resignation to Congress, in which case only Congress shall
elect whomsoever is esteemed most fit.

CHAPTER 2

Chapter II
Of the Revolutionary Congress

_Article_ 11.--The Revolutionary Congress is the assembly of those
deputies from the Philippine provinces, elected in due form, as
prescribed in the Decree of the 18th inst. Nevertheless, if any
province could not elect deputies because the majority of its towns
had not yet been able to free themselves from Spanish dominion,
the Government can nominate provisional deputies chosen from the
persons of highest consideration by reason of their education
and social position up to the number fixed by the said Decree,
always provided that such persons shall have been born or have
resided for a long time in the provinces to be represented.

_Article_ 12.--When the deputies shall have met in the town and
in the building to be provided by the Revolutionary Government
the preliminary act shall be the election by majority of votes
of a commission of five persons who shall examine the documents
accrediting the personality of each person, and another commission
of three persons who shall examine the documents exhibited by
the first commission of five.

_Article_ 13.--The next