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8 the nuncios and deputies of the diet, and the senators shall be, without exception, landed proprietors.

XXX. All public officers in the executive part of the administration, are liable to be displaced by the same authority by which they were appointed; and all, without exception, are responsible for their conduct.

XXXI. The Polish Nation shall have for ever a national representation; and this representation shall consist of the diet, composed of the King and of the two chambers; the senate shall constitute one chamber, and the nuncios and deputies of the Commons, the other.

XXXII. Every legitimated foreigner shall enjoy the protection of the laws, and the advantages which they secure, on the same footing as the other inhabitants. He shall be able, like them, to remain in the kingdom or to leave it, (conformably to the rules therein established) to return to it, to acquire landed property, and to qualify himself for becoming a citizen.

XXXIII. Any foreigner who has become a landed proprietor and been naturalized, and who has also acquired the Polish tongue, is admissible to a public office, after five years of residence and of unexceptionable behaviour.

XXXIV. The King also of his own pleasure, or on the representation of his council of state, may appoint foreigners of talent to any offices not excepted by article ninety.