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74 lative body, the oath to be faithful to the nation, the law, and the king; to employ all the power delegated to the king, and the exercise of which is confided to him during the minority of the king, to maintain the constitution decreed by the National Constituent Assembly in the years 1789, 1790, and 1791, and to cause the laws to be executed.

If the legislative body is not assembled, the regent shall cause a proclamation to be published in which shall be ex- pressed his oath and the promise to repeat it as soon as the legislative body shall be assembled.

13. As long as the regent has not entered upon the exercise of his functions, the sanction of the laws remains suspended; the ministers continue to perform under their responsibility all the acts of the executive power.

14. As soon as the regent shall have taken the oath, the legislative body shall determine his stipend, which cannot be changed during the continuance of the regency.

15. If, on account of the minority of the kinsman summoned to the regency, it shall have devolved upon a more remote kinsman, or shall have been bestowed by election, the regent who shall have entered upon the exercise of it shall continue his functions until the majority of the king.

16. The regency of the kingdom does not confer any right over the person of the minor king.

17. The custody of the minor king shall be confided to his mother; and if he has no mother, or if she has been married again at the time of the accession of her son to the throne, or if she marries again during the minority, the custody shall be bestowed by the legislative body.

Neither the regent and his descendants, nor women, can be elected to the guardianship of the minor king.

18. In case of notoriously recognized insanity of the king. legally established and declared by the legislative body after three deliberations taken successively from month to month, there shall be occasion for a regency as long as the insanity lasts.

Section III. Of the family of the king.

1. The heir presumptive shall bear the name of Prince Royal.