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tnote 6: This table, and that mentioned in Art. 33, being of no importance, are not inserted here.] ART. 32. The representatives may be chosen throughout the whole extent of France indifferently. Every college of a department or circle, that shall choose a member not belonging to the department or circle, shall appoint a substitute (_suppleant_), who must necessarily be taken from the department or circle. ART. 33. Manufacturing and commercial labour and property shall have a particular representation. The election of commercial and manufacturing representatives shall be made by the electoral college of the department from a list of eligible persons, drawn up by the chambers of commerce and consulting chambers in conjunction, according to the annexed table and act, No. 2. HEAD III. _Of the law of taxation._ ART. 34. Direct general taxes, whether on land or personal property, are voted only for one year: indirect taxes may be voted for several years. In case of a dissolution of the chamber of representatives, the taxes voted in the preceding session are continued, till the chamber meets anew. ART. 35. No tax, direct or indirect, in money or in kind, can be levied; no loan can take place; no entry of credit in the great book of the public debt can be made; no domain can be alienated or exchanged; no raising of men for the army can be ordered; no portion of territory can be exchanged; except by virtue of a law. ART. 36. No proposal of a tax, of a loan, or of a levy of men, can be made, except in the chamber of representatives. ART. 37. It is in the chamber of representatives also, that, 1st, the general budget of the state, containing an estimate of the receipts, and the proposal of the funds assigned for the year to each department of the ministry; and, 2dly, an account of the receipts and expenses of the year, or years, preceding; are to be introduced in the first instance. HEAD IV. _Of ministers and their responsibility._ ART. 38. All the acts of the government must be countersigned by a minister having some department. ART. 39. The ministers are responsible for the acts of government signed by them, as well as for the execution of the laws. ART. 40. They may be accused by the chamber of representatives, and are to be tried by that of peers. ART. 41. Every minister, every commander of an army by land or sea, may be accused by the chamber of representatives, and tr
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