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278 in a state of bankruptcy or insolvency, proved by authenticated records, do not produce a general discharge from their creditors.

The primary assemblies shall nominate electors in proportion to the number of active citizens domiciled in the town or thecanton. One elector shall be nominated for ioo active citizens, present or not, at the assembly. Two electors from 151 to 250, and thusone after the other.

No one can be chosen elector unless he unites all thenecessary conditions to be an active citizen, that is to say:In towns above 6, 000 inhabitants, that he is the proprietor orbeneficiary of an estate valued, upon the tax rolls, at a revenue equal inlocal value to 200 days' labor, or an occupant of a tenement valued, upon the same rolls, at a revenue equal in value to IOO days' labor. And in the country, that he is the owner or beneficiary of an estatevalued, upon the tax rolls, the income of which is equal in local valueto 150 days' labor, or that he is the tenant or farmer of estates valued, on the same rolls, at the value of 400 days' labor. In regard to those who are in part proprietors or beneficiaries, andin part occupants, tenants, or farmers, their estates are estimatedtogether, in their different characters, to the amount of tax requisitefor their eligibility.

The electors chosen in each department shall meet inorder to elect the number of representatives who have been creditedto their department, and a number of alternates equal to onethird of the representatives. The electoral assemblies shall meet with fullpower, on the last Sunday in March, if they have not been soonercalled together by the public officers appointed by law.

The representatives and the alternates shall be elected byan absolute plurality of votes, and can only be chosen from the activecitizens of the department.

All active citizens, whatever may be their condition, profession, or amount of taxes paid by them, may be elected representatives of the nation.

If any one of the following officers be chosen a representative, he shall be required to make election between such office and theone he may then hold: the ministers and other agents of the executivepower, revocable at will; the commissioners of the national treasury; the