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 concerns the Government activities. In any other case, the favourable vote of one more than half shall be sufficient.

(g) To authorise Cubans to enter the military service of a foreign country or to accept from another government an employment or honour that carries with it authority or jurisdiction of its own.

(h) To approve the treaties negotiated by the President of the Republic with other nations.

(i) To request the attendance of members of the Cabinet, to answer questions addressed to them, in accordance with the Constitution.

(j) To use other faculties emanating from this Constitution.

Section 3.—The House of Representatives, its Composition and Attributes

123. The House of Representatives shall be composed of one Representative for each 35,000 inhabitants or fraction in excess of 17,500. Representatives shall be elected by Provinces, for a period of 4 years, by universal, equal, direct and secret suffrage, on a single day and in the manner prescribed by law. The numerical basis of representation in each Province shall be determined by law, in accordance with the latest official national census of population.

One-half of the House of Representatives shall be renewed each 2 years.

124. To be a Representative it is required:

(a) To be a Cuban by birth or by naturalisation, and in the latter case to have resided continuously 10 years in the Republic, counted from the date of naturalisation.

(b) To be at least 21 years of age.

(c) To have the full enjoyment of civil and political rights.

(d) Not to have belonged to the armed forces of this Republic in action service, during the 2 years immediately prior to the date of his designation as a candidate.

125. The functions of the House of Representatives are:

(a) To accuse the President of the Republic and the members of the Cabinet, before the Senate, in the cases determined in