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( 18 ) Council, the highe power of executing the laws.

This Council all be called Straz, or the Council of Inpection.

The duty of uch executive power all be to watch over the laws, and to ee them rictly executed according to their import, even by the means of public force, ould it be neceary.

All departments and magiracies are bound to obey its directions. To this power we leave the right of controling uch as are refractory, or of puniing uch as are negligent in the execution of their repective offices.

This executive power cannot aume the right of making laws, or of their preta-