report on the Audit with explanatory statements.

CHAPTER XI. AMENDMENTS, INTERPRETATION AND INVIOLABILITY OF THE
CONSTITUTION

Art. 109. The National Assembly may bring up bills for the amendment of
the National Constitution.

Bills of this nature shall not take effect unless approved by two-thirds
of the members of each House present.

No bill for the amendment of the Constitution shall be introduced unless
signed by one-fourth of the members of each House.

Art. 110. The amendment of the National Constitution shall be discussed
and decided by the National Constitutional Conference.

Art. 111. No proposal for a change of the form of Government shall be
allowed as a subject for amendment.

Art. 112. Should there be any doubt as to the meaning of the text of the
Constitution, it shall be interpreted by the National Constitutional
Conference.

Art. 113. The National Constitutional Conference shall be composed of
the members of the National Assembly.

Unless there be a quorum of two-thirds of the total number of the
members of the National Assembly, no Constitutional Conference shall be
held, and unless three-fourths of the members present vote in favour, no
amendment shall be passed. But with regard to the interpretation of the
Constitution, only two-thirds of the members present is required to
decide an issue.

Art. ... The National Constitution shall be the Supreme Law of the Land
and shall be inviolable under any circumstances unless duly amended in
accordance with the procedure specified in this Constitution.

[Symbol: tick mark] A Chapter on Provincial or local organization is to
be inserted under Chapter ..., providing for certain powers and rights
to be given to local governments with the residual power left in the
hands of the central government. The exact text is not yet settled.

Note: The Mark (*) indicates that the article has already been
formally adopted as a part of the finished Constitution.

The Mark ([Symbol: tick mark]) indicates that the article has not yet
passed through the second reading.

Those without marks have passed through the second reading on May 28th,
1917. Articles bearing no number are additions to the original draft as
presented to the Conference by the Drafting Committee.

THE LOCAL SYSTEM

DRAFT SUBMITTED TO PARLIAMENT

The following Regulations on the Local System have been referred to the
Parliamentary Committee for consideration:--

Article 1. The Local Sy