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Rh The representations shall be distributed among the eightythree departments, in the proportions of territory, population, and direct taxation.

Of the 745 representatives, 247 are assigned to territory. Each department names three of them, except the department of Paris, which names only one.

Two hundred and forty-nine representatives are credited to population. The total amount of the active population of the kingdom is divided into 249 parts, and each department names as many deputies as it has parts of the population.

Two hundred and forty-nine representatives are credited to direct taxation. The total sum of the direct taxation of the kingdom is also divided into 249 parts, and each department names as many deputies as it pays parts of the whole taxation.

In order to form the National Legislative Assembly, all active citizens shall meet every two years, in primary assemblies, in the towns and cantons.

The primary assemblies shall meet, with full authority to act, on the second Sunday in March, if they have not been convoked sooner by the public functionaries appointed by law.

To be an active citizen, it is necessary to be born, or to become a Frenchman; to be full twenty-five years of age; to be domiciled in the town or the canton for the period determined by law; to pay in some part of the kingdom a direct tax, at least of the value of three days' work, and to present a receipt for it; not to be in a state of servitude, that is to say, in service for wages; lo be registered in the municipality of his domicile, on the roll of the National Guard to have taken the civic oath.

Every six years the Legislative Body shall fix the minimum and the maximum of a day's labor, and the administrators of department shall give it local application in each district.

No person shall exercise the rights of an active citizen in more than one place, nor shall he be represented by another.

The exercise of the rights of active citizenship shall be denied to:

Those who are under indictment; those who, having been adjudged