s, whenever the latter may fail to do so.

3. To appoint and remove the employes of their respective offices in the
manner provided by law.

ART. 111. The Mayors shall be personally responsible before the courts
of justice, in the manner prescribed by law, for all acts performed by
them in the discharge of their functions.

ART. 112. Each Mayor shall receive a salary, to be paid by the municipal
treasury, which may be changed at any time; but such change shall not
take effect until after a new election for Mayor has been held.

ART. 113. In case of vacancy, either temporary or permanent, of the
office of Mayor, the president of the municipal council shall act as
Mayor.

Should the absence be permanent, the substitute shall act until the end
of the term for which the Mayor was elected.

TITLE XIII

THE NATIONAL TREASURY

ART. 114. All property existing within the territory of the Republic not
belonging to provinces, municipalities or private individuals or
corporations, shall belong to the State.

TITLE XIV

AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION

ART. 115. The Constitution shall not be amended, in whole or in part,
except by resolution passed by two-thirds of the total number of members
of each House of Congress.

Six months after the resolution to amend the Constitution has been
passed, a constitutional convention shall be called to assemble for the
exclusive and specific purpose of either approving or rejecting the
amendment. Each House shall, in the meantime, continue to perform its
duties with absolute independence of the convention.

Delegates to the said convention shall be elected by each province at
the rate of one for every fifty thousand inhabitants, in the manner that
may be provided by law.

TRANSIENT PROVISIONS

First. The Republic of Cuba does not recognize any other debts or
obligations than those legitimately contracted in favor of the
revolution by commanders of bodies of the liberating army, subsequent to
the twenty-fourth day of February, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and
prior to the nineteenth day of September of the same year, on which date
the Jimaguayu Constitution was promulgated; and the debts and
obligations contracted afterward, by the revolutionary government,
either by itself or through its legitimate representatives in foreign
countries. Congress shall examine said debts and obligations and decide
upon the payment of those which are found legitimate.

Second. Persons bo