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19 === TITLE IV. OF THE NATIONAL REPRESENTATION. ===

LXXXV. The national representation shall be constituted as ordained in Article fifty-one.

LXXXVI. The legislative power resides in the person of the King, and in the two chambers of the diet, conformably with the regulations in article thirty-one.

LXXXVII. The diet in ordinary, shall meet once in every two years at Warsaw, at the time prescribed by the King in his act of convocation. The session shall last for thirty days. The King alone has power to prorogue, adjourn, or dissolve it.

LXXXVIII. The King has the power of convoking a diet extraordinary, when he may think proper.

LXXXIX. No member of the diet can be arrested, or tried for a criminal offence, while the diet is sitting unless with the consent of the chamber to which he belongs.

XC. The diet shall take into consideration all proposed civil, criminal, or administrative laws, referred to it by the King, through the council of State. It shall deliberate on all proposed modifications or alterations of the duties of public