stem shall embrace provinces and hsien districts.

Any change for the existing division of provinces and hsien districts
shall be decided by the Senate. As to Mongolia, Tibet, Chinghai and
other places where no provinces and hsien districts have been fixed,
Parliament shall enforce these regulations there in future.

Art. 2. A province shall have the following duties and rights: (a) To
fix local laws. (b) To manage provincial properties. (c) To attend to
the affairs in connexion with police organization, sanitation,
conservancy, roads, and public works. (d) To develop education and
industry in accordance with the order and mandates of the Central
Government. (e) To improve its navigation and telegraphic lines, or to
undertake such enterprises with the co-operation of other provinces. (f)
To organize precautionary troops for the protection of local interests,
the method of whose organization, uniforms and arms shall be similar to
those of the National Army. With the exception of the matter of
declaring war against foreign countries, the President shall have no
power to transfer these troops to other provinces: and unless the
province is unable to suppress its own internal troubles, it shall not
ask the Central Government for the service of the National Army. (g) The
province shall defray its own expenses for the administration and the
maintenance of precautionary troops; but the provinces which have
hitherto received subsidies, shall continue to receive same from the
National Treasury with the approval of Parliament. (h) Land, Title Deed,
License, Mortgage, Tobacco and Wine, Butchery, Fishery and all other
principal and additional taxes shall be considered as local revenues.
(i) The province may fix rates for local tax or levy additional tax on
the National Taxes. (j) The province shall have a provincial treasury.
(k) It may raise provincial public loans. (l) It shall elect a certain
number of Senators. (m) It shall fix regulations for the smaller local
Self-Governing Bodies.

Art. 3. Besides the above rights and privileges, a province shall bear
the following responsibilities:

(a) In case of financial difficulties of the Central Government, it
shall share the burden according to the proportion of its revenue. (b)
It shall enforce the laws and mandates promulgated by the Central
Government. (c) It shall enforce the measures entrusted by the Central
Government, but the latter shall bear the expenses. (d) In case the