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286 riages, and deaths of the French Princes shall be presented to theLegislative Body, who shall order them deposited in its archives. Art. 8. It shall not accord any support to the members of the familyof the King. On arriving at the full age of twentylive years, or upontheir marriage, the younger sons of the King shall receive an income, which shall be fixed by the Legislative Body and terminate on theextinction of their male offspring. Section IV. Of the Ministers. ARTICLE i. The King alone shall have power to appoint and revokethe appointment of the ministers. Art. 2. The members of the present National Assembly and following legislatures, the members of the Tribunal of Cassation, andthose who shall serve on the grand jury, shall not be promoted to theoffice of minister, nor receive any office, gift, pension, honor, or commission from the executive, or from its agents, during the duration oftheir functions, and for two years after they shall cease in the exerciseof them. It shall be the same with those who are entered on the listof the grand jury during the time of their inscription. Art. 3. No one can enter upon the exercise of any employment, either in the offices of the ministers or those of the excisemen, or of theadministration of public revenues, or generally in any employment bythe executive power, without the civic oath, or proving that he hadtaken it. Art. 4. No order of the King can be executed unless it is signedby him and countersigned by the minister or the auditor of the department. Art. 5. The ministers are responsible for all misdemeanors committed by him against the national safety or against the Constitution; forall acts against property and individual liberty; for all expenditure ofall revenues intended for the expenses of their departments. Art. 6. In no case can the written or verbal order of the Kingrelieve a minister from responsibility. Art. 7. The ministers are required to present each year to the Legislative Body, at the opening of its session, a statement of the expensesto be incurred in their departments and to render an account of thesums already appropriated, and to indicate the abuses which may havebeen introduced in the different parts of the administration. Art. 8. No minister, in office or out of office, can be prosecuted