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376 Every draft of a law definitively rejected by one of the two Chambers cannot be submitted to a new deliberation in the course of the same session.

A draft of a law is not considered as adopted unless voted successively by the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate by the majority of votes article by article and unless the whole of the project has obtained a majority of votes in each of the two chambers.

With the exception of the Ministers their delegates and officials convoked by a special invitation no one can be introduced in one or the other chamber and admitted to make any communication whatever whether in his own name or as the representative of a group of individuals.

The debates of the Chambers shall be in Turkish. The projects shall be printed and distributed before the day fixed for the discussion.

The votes are given — by ayes and nays; by external signs, or by secret ballot. The vote of secret ballot is subordinated to a decision of the Chamber taken by the majority of the members present.

The internal police of each Chamber is exercised by its President.

The President and the members of the Senate are named directly by His Majesty the Sultan. The number of the Senators cannot exceed one-third of the number of the members of the Chamber of Deputies.

To be named Senator it is necessary : For a man to have rendered himself by his acts worthy of public confidence or to have rendered signal service to the State. To be at least 40 years of age.