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386 Divers Dispositions

ART. 113. In case of proof of facts or of signs of a nature to apprehend trouble on any of the territory of the Empire the Imperial Government has the right of proclaiming there a state of siege. The effects of the state of siege consist in the temporary suspension of the civil laws. The mode of administering localities submitted to a state of siege shall be regulated by a special law. His Majesty the Sultan has the exclusive power of expelling from the territory of the Empire those who in consequence of information worthy of confidence collected by the administration of police are recognized as being injurious to the safety of the State.

ART. 114. Primary instruction shall be obligatory for all Mussulmans. The details of the application shall be determined by a special law.

ART. 115. No disposition of the Constitution can under any pretext whatever be suspended or ignored.

ART. 116. In case of necessity duly proved the Constitution may be modified in some of its dispositions. This modification is subordinated to the following conditions. Every proposition of modification presented, whether by the Ministry or by one or the other chamber must be submitted in the first place to the deliberations of the Chamber of deputies. If the proposition be approved by a two thirds majority of the members of this Chamber, it shall be transmitted to the Senate. In case the Senate shall equally adopt the proposed modification by two thirds of the Senators it shall be submitted to the sanction of His Majesty the Sultan. If it be sanctioned by Imperial Irade it shall have the force of law. Every disposition of the Constitution which is the object of a proposed modification remains in force up to the moment that the proposition, after having been submitted to the approval of the deliberations of the Chambers, has been sanctioned by Imperial Irade.