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 454 A HISTORY OF CHILE Art. 159 No person or collection of persons shall assume to act for or to rep- resent the people, arrogate to themselves its rights, or petition in its name. The violation of this Article is sedition. Art. 160 No magistrate, no person or collection of persons can assume, even under pretext of extraordinary circumstances, any authority or rights not expressly conferred on them by the laws. Any act in violation of this prohibition is null. Art. 161 When one or more places in the Republic shall be declared in a state of siege, in conformity with the provisions in part twentieth of Article 82, only the following powers, by virtue of such declaration, are granted to the President of the Republic: 1st. To imprison persons in their own houses, or in places not jails or others destined for the confinement of common criminals. 2d. To remove persons from one department to another on the mainland, and within the space comprised between the ports of Cal- dera, on the north, and the province of Llanguihue, on the south. The measures taken by the President by virtue of the state of siege, shall last no longer than this, as otherwise they may be in violation of the constitutional guarantees given to the Senators and Deputies. Art. 162 No entails of any kind yet established, or which may be established in the future, shall impede the free alienation of the properties effect- ed by them, assuring to the beneficiaries of such entail the value of the property alieniated. A special law shall regulate the manner of carrying this law into effect. CHAPTER XII— The observance and amendments of the constitution Art. 163 Every public functionary on taking possession of his ofiice shall make oath to support the Constitution. Art. 164 The Congress alone, in conformity with Articles 40 and following, can settle any doubts that may arise in regard to the meaning of any of its Articles.