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Rh The Senators are named for life. The dignity of Senators can be conferred upon personages en disponibilité who may have filled the office of Minister, Governor General (Vali) Commander of an army corps, Cazasker (grand judge) Ambassador or Minister plenipotentiary, Patriarch, Khakham-bashi (Grand Rabbi) to the generals of division of the armies by land and sea and generally to persons who unite the requisite conditions. The members of the Senate called at their request to other functions lose their quality of Senator.

The pay of a Senator is fixed at the monthly sum of 10,000 piastres. The Senator who receives from the Treasury a salary or pay by any other title has a right only to the complement if the sum total of such pay is less than 10,000 piastres. If this amount be equal or superior to the salary of Senator he continues to receive the whole of it.

The Senate shall examine the drafts of laws or of the Budget which shall be transmitted to it by the Chamber of Deputies. If in the course of the examination of the draft of a law the Senate finds a clause contrary to the sovereign rights of His Majesty the Sultan, to the liberty, to the constitution, to the territorial integrity of the Empire, to the internal safety of the country, to the interest of the defence of the country or to good morals it shall reject it definitively by a vote stating the reasons thereof or it shall send it back accompanied by its observations to the Chamber of Deputies demanding that it he amended or modified in the sense of these observations. The drafts of law adopted by the Senate shall receive its approbation and shall be transmitted to the Grand Vizier. The Senate shall examine the petitions presented to it. It shall transmit to the Grand Vizier those petitions which it believes deserve it accompanying them with its observations.

The number of Deputies is fixed at one deputy for 50,000 male inhabitants belonging to the Ottoman nationality.