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 CONSTITUTION ^^g Art. 125 The law shall decide the manner of the election of the magistrates and the length of their term of office. Art. 126 The following are the qualifications for election as magistrate or alderman : ist. The active exercise of citizenship; 2d. At least five years residence in the territory of the municipality. Art. 127 The governor is the chief of all the municipalities in his depart- ment, and president of that one in which his capital is established. The sub-delegate is president of the municipality in his sub-delegacy. Art. 128 The following are the powers of the municipal officers within their territories: ist. To care for the public health, comfort, display and amuse- ment. 2d. To promote agriculture, education, industry and commerce. 3d. To care for the primary schools and other educational institu- tions that are supported by the municipal funds. 4th. To have superintendence of hospitals, asylums, houses for abandoned children, jails, houses of correction, and charitable institu- tions, in accordance with the regulations prescribed for the same. 5th. To have charge of the construction and repair of roads, pave- ments, bridges, and all necessary or ornamental public works, which are maintained from the municipal funds. 6th. To administer and pay out the fund of ways and means, in accordance with the rules prescribed by law. 7th. To make the allotments of taxes, number of recruits and sub- stitutes apportioned to the Municipality, in case the law shall not have designated other persons or authority for that purpose. 8th. To address to Congress every year, through the Intendente and the President of the Republic, such petitions as it shall judge proper, whether in relation to the general welfare of the State or the particular welfare of the department, and particularly in regard to the raising of means and meeting the extraordinary expenses demand- ed for the construction of new works of public utility in the depart- ment, or for the repair of those in existence. gth. To propose to the general Government, or to that of the