tnote 6: This table, and that mentioned in Art. 33,
being of no importance, are not inserted here.]
ART. 32. The representatives may be chosen throughout the whole extent
of France indifferently.
Every college of a department or circle, that shall choose a member
not belonging to the department or circle, shall appoint a substitute
(_suppleant_), who must necessarily be taken from the department or
circle.
ART. 33. Manufacturing and commercial labour and property shall have a
particular representation.
The election of commercial and manufacturing representatives shall be
made by the electoral college of the department from a list of
eligible persons, drawn up by the chambers of commerce and consulting
chambers in conjunction, according to the annexed table and act, No.
2.
HEAD III.
_Of the law of taxation._
ART. 34. Direct general taxes, whether on land or personal property,
are voted only for one year: indirect taxes may be voted for several
years. In case of a dissolution of the chamber of representatives, the
taxes voted in the preceding session are continued, till the chamber
meets anew.
ART. 35. No tax, direct or indirect, in money or in kind, can be
levied; no loan can take place; no entry of credit in the great book
of the public debt can be made; no domain can be alienated or
exchanged; no raising of men for the army can be ordered; no portion
of territory can be exchanged; except by virtue of a law.
ART. 36. No proposal of a tax, of a loan, or of a levy of men, can be
made, except in the chamber of representatives.
ART. 37. It is in the chamber of representatives also, that, 1st, the
general budget of the state, containing an estimate of the receipts,
and the proposal of the funds assigned for the year to each
department of the ministry; and, 2dly, an account of the receipts and
expenses of the year, or years, preceding; are to be introduced in the
first instance.
HEAD IV.
_Of ministers and their responsibility._
ART. 38. All the acts of the government must be countersigned by a
minister having some department.
ART. 39. The ministers are responsible for the acts of government
signed by them, as well as for the execution of the laws.
ART. 40. They may be accused by the chamber of representatives, and
are to be tried by that of peers.
ART. 41. Every minister, every commander of an army by land or sea,
may be accused by the chamber of representatives, and tr
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