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 CONSTITUTION 447 common magistrates and other inferior judges shall hold their oflSces for the time specified by law. The judges, whether perpetual or for a term, can not be deposed from ofiSce except for cause legally decided. Art. Ill The judges are personally responsible criminally for corruption in o£Bce, failure to observe the laws which govern trials, and, in general, for any evasion or extortion in the administration of justice. The law shall determine the cases and the manner in which this responsibility shall be enforced. Art. 112 The law shall determine the qualifications which judges shall res- pectively possess, and the necessary number of years of practice as advocate before appointment to the superior tribunals or lower courts. Art. 113 There shall be in the Republic one magistracy (tribunal) whose duty it shall be to have the superintendence direct, correctional and economical, of all the tribunals and courts of the Nation, in accord- ance with the law determining its organization and attributes. Art. 114 A special law shall determine the organization and powers of all tribunals and courts that may be necessary for the prompt and full administration of justice throughout the territory of the Republic. CHAPTER IX — Government and internal administration Art. 115 The territory of the Republic is divided into provinces, the provin- ces into departments, the departments into sub-delegacies, and these last into districts. the intendentes Art. 116 The government in chief of each province in all the branches of its administration is vested in an Jntendente, who shall exercise his powers in accordance with the laws, and under the order and direc- tions of the President of the Republic, whose natural and immediate agent he is. His terra of office shall be four years; but he may be reappointed for an indefinite time. THE governors Art. 117 The government of each department is vested in a governor, sub-