16. No person is to be tried twice for the same offence, nor condemned and deprived of his property without a previous trial. A definive judgment cannot be appealed from.

17. The government may require private property to be given up for the public good, when suffi. ciently demonstrated, but previous indemnity must be granted.

18. Torture and confiscation are abolished.

thoughts and opinions, without being subjected to any censorship, but always within the following

limits:

1. Not to attack the Christian religion.

2. Not to violate decency. 3. To avoid insults and personal calumny.

20. The Hellenians have a right to form establishments of every description, for science, for philanthropy, for industry and arts, and to select professors for their instruction.

21. In Greece it is not permit ted to buy and sell a man; every slave of every nation and of every religion, as soon as he places his foot on the Greek soil, his master can no longer pursue him.

22. No person can decline submitting to his competent judge, nor be prevented from having recourse to him.

23. No person can be detained in prison more than 24 hours without the cause of his arrest being made known to him; nor more than three days without the proceedings against him beginning.

24. The clergy, according to the rules of the Greek church, can take no part in any public em. ployment: the presbyters (minor priests) alone have the righ of election.

25. Every one may write to the senate, and state his opinion on any public object.

26. The Hellenians have the right to write and publish, freely, by the press, or otherwise, their

ment, or title of any description whatever, from any monarch, prince, or foreign state.

28. The epithets of illustrious, excellency, &c. shall not be given to any Hellenian within the limits of the state; only the governor shall bear the name of excellency, which shall cease with his functions.

29. No native, nor person naturalized and inhabiting Greece, and enjoying the rights of a citizen, can have recourse to foreign protection; in case he does, he ceases to be a citzen of Greece.

CHAP. 4.-Of Naturalization.

30. The government shall natu. ralize foreigners, who bring certi ficates from Greek functionaries, attesting: 1. That they have passed three whole years in the country; 2. That during this time they have not been visited by any infamous punishment; 3. That they have acquired within the state landed property of the value of at least 100 dollars.

31. Great actions and potorious services, during the need of the country, are sufficient claims to naturalization.

32. The government may also naturalize those foreigners who

founded in Greece'remarkable estab. lishments, tending to the progress of the sciences, of arts, of com. merce, and of industry. It may also abridge the time necessary for naturalization.

33. Those foreigners who have served, or who shall serve in a military capacity in Greece two years, and who have the necessary certificates of service, are by that made Hellenic citizens.

34. A man when naturalized immediately enjoys all the rights of a citizen, but the right of representation shall be regulated by the law of elections which the senate will publish.

35. Every person naturalized shall take the Greek oath. CHAP. 5.-Of the Organization of the Government.

36. The sovereign power of the nation is divided into three powers -the legislative, the executive, and the judicial.

37. The legislative power makes laws.

38. The executive power sanc. tions them, agreeably to article 74 and carries them into execution.

39. The judicial power applies them.

40. The legislative power belongs in particular to the body of representatives of the people, who will take the name of senate, (boule.)

41. The executive power belongs to one alone, who will take the name of governor, and who has under his orders different secretaries.

42. The judicial power belongs to the tribunals.

CHAP. Of the Senate. 43. The senate is composed of

the representatives of the provin ces of Greece.

44. Each of the representatives, upon taking his seat in the senate, shall take the oath required by law.

45. The representatives shall be elected by the people, accord. ing to the law of election.

46. The senate, as a body, is declared inviolable.

47. The senate shall have a president, a vice-president, 1st and 2d secretaries, with the necessary vice-secretaries.

48. The president and the vicepresident shall be elected by the senate, a plurality of votes governing. The president may be elected from persons not belonging to the Senate, but the vice-president must be taken from among their own body.

49. The two first secretaries shall be elected from without the body, by a plurality of votes of the members.

50 The president shall preside in the daily sittings; he shall fix the day and hour of opening; he shall prorogue the senate, and in cases of necessity, shall convoke them in extraordinary sessions.

51. Upon the request of twenty senators present, the president shall open the session.

52. When the president is ab. form his duties, and in case of the sent, the vice-president shall perabsence of both, the eldest repreplace of president. sentative shall fill provisionally the

53. In case of either of them dying or becoming infirm, the other shall fill his place, according to article 48.

54. The term of office of the president and vice-president shall be one year.

55. Two thirds of the whole

rality of votes adheres to the decree, it shall be again sent to the president, who shall immediately sanction and promulgate it as a law of the state.

75. If towards the end of the session, a decree in discussion between the president and the senate is not completed, the senate, at the next session, shall take into account the steps taken at the preceding session.

76. If a projet of a law, proposed by the president to the senate, is considered by that body, and sent to him three times without being accepted, he shall lose the right.

77. Upon the opening of the session, an estimate of the public expenses, submitted by the government, having been discussed, appropriations for the necessary expenses of the government shall be made by the senate.

78. A statement in detail of the expenses and revenues of the preceding year, and of the public debt, shall be made annually to the senate, which the secretary of finance shall record and cause to be pub. lished.

79. It shall take care of the sinking fund and of the regular payment of the interest of the public debt.

80. It shall regulate, by law, the direct and indirect taxes, and the other contributions which are to be levied throughout the state by virtue of article 10.

81. It shall pass a law to make a loan upon the guaranty of the nation, or upon a mortgage of the national property.

82. It shall authorize the aliena. tion of the public property. This shall be sold as soon as possible in all the provinces, and notice shall

be regularly given of the sales, by the executive power in each province.

83. It shall guard the public treasury, and as often as is necessary shall demand the accounts of the secretary of finance, always granting sufficient time to register them.

84. Any representative may require from the secretaries the necessary information upon matters before the senate.

85. The senate shall regulate the currency, and fix the weight, the quality, the form and name of the coins.

86. It shall watch over and foster public education, the freedom of the press, agriculture, commerce, the sciences, and arts, and industry.

It shall secure by law to inventors, and authors, the exclusive right for a limited period to the profits of their productions.

87. It shall make laws relative to captures.

88. It shall make laws against piracy.

89. It shall regulate the mode of recruiting the army by enrol

ment.

90. It shall provide for construct. ing and purchasing national vessels. 91. It shall take charge of the national property.

92. It shall provide for the farming of the national domains, and the indirect taxes.

93. It shall establish one kind of weights and measures throughout the state.

94. It shall fix the compensa. tion of the president, secretaries and judges.

95. It shall declare the boundaries of the provinces, and the kind of administration best adapted to the interests of the inhabitans.

96. It may modify or repeal any laws, except those contained in the

constitution.

97. The president shall not, without the consent of the senate, declare war, nor make any treaty of peace, alliance, friendship, commerce, or neutrality, &c., except truces of limited duration, of which notification must be immediately given to the senate.

98. The senate shall receive reports concerning all the business of the state, and those which shall be deemed important, shall be referred to a competent committee with. out any directions.

99. The journalists shall have free admission in all sittings of the senate, which shall not be declared

secret.

100. The senate shall make rules for its own government.

101. The senate shall institute civil, criminal and military codes, upon the basis of the French system of jurisprudence.

102. Each representative shall vote according to his own opinion, without asking the advice of his constituents.

103. In case of the death, the dismission, or incapacity from infirmity, of the president, the senate shall name a vice-gubernatorial commission of three members, chosen from persons not members of the senate.

This commission shall provi. sionally execute the laws, with the consent of the secretaries, until the election of a new president. If the senate is not in session, the secretaries shall form provisionally a vice-gubernatorial council to convoke the senate immediately, which, however, shall also assemble without being specially sum. moned. In each of these cases,

CHAP. 7. Concerning the President of Greece.

104. The executive power is vested in the president, (gs) 105. The president is declared to be inviolable.

106. The secretaries are res sponsible for their public acts. 107. He shall put the laws in force, through the secretaries, throughout the state.

108. All orders shall be signed by the president, countersigned by the secretary of the proper department, and sealed with his seal.

109. He shall command the forces of the state by sea and land.

110. He shall propose laws, pursuant to article 76, directing one or more secretaries of the state, to assist in the discussions thereof, at which the secretary of the proper department of course must be pre.

sent.

111. He shall take care of the public security, foreign and do mestic.

112. He shall appoint the secre taries of state, assign their duties and employments, and determine their qualifications and privileges.

113. He shall correspond with foreign powers.

114. He shall have the power to declare war, make treaties of peace, alliance, &c., according to article 97.

115. He shall appoint ambassa. dors, consuls, chargé d'affaires in foreign governments, and receive them from foreign powers.

116. He may convoke the se, nate on extraordinary occasions,