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Rh with the President of the Supreme Court of Justice, may exercise the Executive Power, in the event of the demise, absence, or incapacity, (physical or moral,) of the President, and Vice-President. (Vide Article 97.)

To swear in the Members of the Executive thus constituted.

To give an opinion in all cases upon which the President may consult it, either in virtue of the twenty-first Facultad, (subdivision) of the 10th Article, or any other. (Article 110.)

For the dispatch of business, the Government is divided into Departments, at the head of each of which is a Secretary of State, who becomes responsible for all the acts in his department, to which his signature is affixed. (Articles 117, 118, 119.)

The Secretaries of State are bound to present to Congress a report of the state of their different departments at the commencement of the annual sessions, which report includes the budget for the ensuing year. (Article 120.)

They must be Mexican citizens by birth. (Article 121.)

The Judicial Power is lodged in a Supreme Tribunal of Justice; and in inferior Courts of Departments, and Districts, the number of which is determined by the Congress. (Article 123.)

The Supreme Court is composed of eleven Judges, and one Fiscal, or Attorney-general. (Article 124.)

Its Members must be Mexicans born, and