itions which have arisen the customs
unity of the monarchy is likely to be disrupted in fact, as already it
is in law, upon the advent of the year mentioned. Thereafter
commercial treaties with foreign nations will be negotiated in the
name of the two states concurrently and will be signed, not merely by
the common minister of foreign affairs, but also by a special (p. 513)
Austrian and a special Hungarian representative.[714]

[Footnote 714: L. Louis-Jaray, Les relations
austro-hongroises et le nouveau compromis
economique, in _Questions Diplomatiques et
Coloniales_, Jan. 16 and Feb. 1, 1908; and Les
dispositions economiques du nouveau compromis
austro-hongrois, in _Revue Economique
Internationale_, March, 1908.]

*565. The Delegations: Organization and Sessions.*--All legislative
power of the Reichsrath and of the Hungarian Parliament, in so far as
it relates to the joint affairs of the states, is exercised by two
"delegations," one representing each of the two parliaments. The
Austrian Delegation consists of sixty members, twenty of whom are
chosen by the Herrenhaus from its own members, and the other forty of
whom are elected by the Abgeordnetenhaus in such manner that the
deputies from each province designate a number of delegates allotted
to them by law. The Hungarian Delegation consists likewise of sixty
members, twenty elected by and from the upper, forty by and from the
lower, chamber, with the further requirement that there shall be
included four of the Croatian members of the Chamber of Deputies and
one of the Croatians in the Chamber of Magnates. All members of both
Delegations are elected annually and may be re-elected. They must be
convoked by the Emperor-King at least once a year. Every device is
employed to lay emphasis upon the absolute equality of the two
Delegations, and of the states they represent, even to the extent of
having the sessions held alternately in Vienna and Budapest. The two
bodies meet in separate chambers, each under a president whom it
elects, but the proposals of the Government are laid before both at
the same time by the joint ministry. In the Austrian Delegation all
proceedings are conducted in the German tongue; in the Hungarian, in
Magyar; and all communications between the two are couched in both
languages. Sittings, as a rule, are public.