elfare at large of
its inhabitants."

ARTICLE 82.--The President exercises his power along with the
Executive Council. An Executive Council shall be joined to the
President, consisting of the Commandant-General, two enfranchised
burghers, a Secretary, and a Notekeeper (_notulenhouder_), who shall
have an equal vote, and bear the title of members of the Executive
Council. The Superintendent of Native Affairs and the Notekeeper shall
be _ex-officio_ members of the Executive Council. The President and
members of the Executive Council shall have the right to sit, but not to
vote, in the Volksraad. The President is allowed, when important
affairs arise, to invite the head official to be present in the
Executive Council whose department is more directly concerned with the
subject to be treated of. The said head official shall then have a vote
in the Executive Council, be equally responsible for the resolution
taken, and sign it along with the others.

ARTICLE 83.--According to the intention of Article 82 the
following shall be considered "Head Officials": The State Attorney,
Treasurer, Auditor, Superintendent of Education, Orphan-Master,
Registrar of Deeds, Surveyor-General, Postmaster-General, Head of the
Mining Department, Chief Director of the Telegraph Service, and Chief of
Public Works.

ARTICLE 84.--The President shall be Chairman of the Executive
Council, and in case of an equal division of votes have a casting vote.
For the ratification of sentences of death, or declarations of war, the
unanimous vote of the Executive Council shall be requisite for a
decision.

ARTICLE 85.--Regularly once a month, and at such other times as
the President shall judge necessary, the Executive Council shall sit at
his office.

ARTICLE 86.--The President with two members form a quorum.

ARTICLE 87.--All resolutions of the Executive Council and
official letters of the President must, besides being signed by him,
also be signed by the Secretary of State. The latter is at the same time
responsible that the contents of the resolution, or the letter, is not
in conflict with the existing laws.

ARTICLE 88.--The two enfranchised burghers or members of the
Executive Council contemplated by Article 82 are chosen by the Volksraad
for the period of three years, the Commandant-General for ten years;
they must be members of a Protestant Church, have had no sentence in a
criminal court to their discredit, and have reached the age of thirty
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