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 In case new taxes are resolved on for the payment of the obligation to which the preceding paragraph refers, it shall also be necessary that there be a favourable vote, at a referendum election, of one more than half of the votes cast by the voters of the Province, and the number of votes can not be less than 30 per cent. thereof.

(d) To appoint and remove Provincial employees in accordance with this Constitution and the law.

243. For the purposes of the provisions of the preceding Article, the average effective revenues of the preceding 5 years shall be taken as a basis for calculating the revenues.

244. When the works resolved upon by the Council are not of a provincial character, but in the interest of the municipalities, the latter shall receive in benefits a minimum allotment in proportion to their contributory quotas.

245. No member of the Provincial Council can be suspended or removed iby governmental authority. Nor can the said authority suspend or annul resolutions and decisions of the Council, which can be impugned before the courts by means of special summary proceedings that shall be regulated by law, by municipal or national governmental authorities, by any resident who is injured by the resolution or decrees or who deems that they injure a public interest.

Resolutions of Provincial Councils shall be passed at public sessions.

Only the Courts of Appeals are empowered to suspend or remove Provincial Councillors by reason of crime, in summary proceedings held in accordance with law, or by a final decision which involves disqualification. In case of suspension or temoval of a provincial councillor, the sanction shall be extended to his functions as Mayor.

246. A Governor, after a resolution of the Provincial Council, can file before the full bench of the Supreme Court, in the manner determined by ldw, an appeal alleging abuse of power, against resolutions of the National Government which, in his judgment, attack the provincial autonomous régime established by the constitution, even though the resolution was issued in the use of discretionary powers.

247. The Provincial Council and the Governor owe Tespect to the Tribunal of Accounts of the Nation in accounting matters, and are obligated to furnish it all of the data and