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20 offices and constitutional powers, such as those of the diet, the council of State, the judicial order, and the government commissions; such change or modification being referred to its consideration by the royal authority.

XCI. The diet shall deliberate upon the increase or diminution of imposts, contributions, taxes, and political expences of all kinds, on the alterations which they may require, on the best and most equitable method of distribution, on the formation of the budget or receipts and expenditure, on the regulation of the coinage, and on the levy of recruits; the materials for such deliberation being furnished by the government. It shall deliberate also upon all other subjects which may be referred to it by the Sovereign.

XCII. The diet shall also deliberate upon the communications which are made to it by the King, in consequence of the general report required from the council of State by article seventy-three. Lastly the diet, after having enacted its decrees on all these subjects, receives contributions, requests, representations, or complaints presented to it by the nuncios and deputies of the commons, for the benefit and advantage of their constituents. The diet will present them to the council of State, by which they will be submitted to the Sovereign. If they are again referred to the diet by the King, through the agency of his council of State, the diet is to deliberate upon the laws which may be proposed in consequence of these petitions.