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1. The Government of each State shall be divided in a manner similar to that of the Federation. (Article 157.)

The State Legislatures shall determine the time, for which all public offices within the State, shall be held by their respective constitutions; (Article 159;) as likewise the mode in which justice shall be administered in all civil and criminal cases, in which the supreme jurisdiction belongs to the State Tribunals. (Article 160.)

2. The obligations of the States are, to organize their Governments and system of internal administration, in conformity to the Federal Act.

3. To observe and enforce the general laws of the Union, and the Treaties concluded by the Supreme Government with Foreign Powers.

4. To protect their inhabitants, respectively, in the full enjoyment of the liberty of writing, printing, and publishing, their political opinions, without the necessity of any previous license, revision, or approbation.

5. To deliver up criminals reclaimed by other States.

7. To contribute towards the liquidation of the debts recognized by the National Congress.

8. To transmit, annually, to each of the two