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290 ART. 2. In cases where the King refuses his consent, this refusalshall only be suspensive. When the two legislatures which follow theone which shall have presented the decree shall successively presentagain the same decree in the same terms, the King shall be deemedto have given his consent. Aki'. 3. The consent of the King is expressed upon each decree bythis formula, signed by him: The King consents, and it shall beexecuted. The suspensive refusal is expressed in these words: TheKing will advise upon it. ART. 4. The King must express his consent or his refusal uponeach decree within two months of its presentation. ART. 5. All decrees to which the King has refused his consent cannot be presented to him again by the same legislature. Art. 6. The decrees sanctioned by the King, anil those which shallhave been presented to him by three consecutive legislatures, have theforce of law, and bear the name and title of law. Art. 7. The acts of the Legislative Body concerning its rules as adeliberative assembly, its interior police, and that which it controlswithin the exterior environs which it shall have determined, the verification of its present members, its injunctions to absent members, theconvocation of primary assemblies that have not voted, the exercise of the constitutional police over the administrators, and over the municipalofficers, whether the question is that of eligibility or of the validity ofelections, shall, nevertheless, be executed as laws, without "beingsubject to the royal sanction. Neither the acts relative to theresponsibility of ministers, nor the decrees bearing upon grounds ofindictment, are required to secure the royal sanction. Art. 8. The decrees of the Legislative Body concerning the establishment, the putting off, and the collection of public taxes shall bearthe name and title of law. They shall be promulgated and executedwithout the sanction, unless they are provisions which shall establishpenalties other than fines and pecuniary coercion. These decrees canonly be passed after the observance of the formalities prescribed inArticles 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 of Section II of this chapter, and theLegislative Body shall not insert in these laws any provision foreign totheir object. Section IV. Of the Relations of the Legislative Body with the King. Article i. When the Legislative Body is definitively organized itsends a deputation to the King to inform him of the fact. The King