members. If there is no quorum present
in the Second Volksraad, its secretary shall at once give notice of the
same to the First Volksraad.

ARTICLE 23.--The sessions of both Volksraads shall be held in
public, unless the majority in special cases resolve to revoke the
publicity.

ARTICLE 24.--Each Volksraad shall keep minutes of its
transactions. It shall have these published regularly in the _Staats
Courant_, except the notes of the secret sittings, which shall only be
partly published with the consent of the First Volksraad.

ARTICLE 25.--Each Volksraad has the right to punish its own
members for disorderly conduct. Each Volksraad has, in addition, the
right to suspend a member with two-thirds of the votes given.

ARTICLE 26.--A period of three months shall be left to the
people to enable those who so wish to express their judgment of a
proposed law to the Volksraads, except those laws which can suffer no
delay.

ARTICLE 27.--The Second Volksraad shall have the power to pass
further regulations on the following subjects as is necessary, either by
law or resolution:--

(1) The department of mines.

(2) The making and support of wagon and post roads.

(3) The postal department.

(4) The department of telegraphs and telephones.

(5) The protection of inventions, samples and trademarks.

(6) The protection of the right of the author.

(7) The exploitation and support of the woods and salt-pans.

(8) The prevention and coping with contagious diseases.

(9) The condition, the rights, and obligations of companies.

(10) Insolvency.

(11) Civil procedure.

(12) Criminal procedure.

(13) Such other subjects as the First Volksraad shall decide later by
law or resolution, or the First Volksraad shall specially refer to the
Second Volksraad.

ARTICLE 28.--All laws or resolutions accepted by the Second
Volksraad are as soon as possible, that is to say at the outside within
forty-eight hours, communicated both to the First Volksraad and to the
President.

ARTICLE 29.--The President has the right, when he has received
notice from the Second Volksraad of the adoption of a law or a
resolution, to bring that law or resolution before the First Volksraad
for consideration within fourteen days after the receipt of such notice.
The President is in any case bound, after the receipt of such a notice,
to communicate it to the First Volksraad within the said time.

ARTICLE 30.--If the President has not brought th