Page:Bolivia (1893; Bureau of the American Republics).djvu/27

Rh (bolivianos) per month during the session of Congress, and in addition, there is an allowance for traveling expenses based upon the number of leagues necessarily traveled in reaching the capital.

To be eligible to the Senate the constitution provides: (1) That the candidate be enrolled in the National Registry of Electors; (2) that he be 35 years of age, and either a Bolivian by birth or a naturalized citizen with a fixed residence of five years in the country; (3) that he have an annual income of not less than $800 (bolivianos), the proceeds either of his profession, industry or real estate; (4) that he shall not have been condemned to corporal punishment by virtue of a sentence pronounced by the ordinary judicial tribunals of the country; (5) that he shall have, resided in the Republic for the four years next preceding his election, unless absent in the public service.

Except as to the qualification of age and income, which is 25 years and $400 (bolivianos), the same constitutional conditions of eligibility apply to, Deputies as to Senators.

The Chief Magistrate of the nation must be a Bolivian citizen by birth, having the qualifications of a Senator, and must exercise the executive power under the title of "President of the Republic," assisted by certain ministers of state who constitute his cabinet. He is elected for four years by direct vote of the people, but is not eligible to reëlection as his own immediate successor. The first and second Vice-Presidents, who must have the same qualifications as the President, are elected in like manner, and in turn, succeed to the Presidency in the absence, death or disability of the President, in which event they are disqualified for reëlection