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78 forces shall be composed; the pay and the number of persons of each grade; the rules for admission and promotion, the forms of enrollment and discharge, the formation of ship crews; the admission of troops or foreign forces into the service of France, and the treatment of troops in case of disbandment

9th. To determine upon the administration and to order the alienation of the national lands;

10th. To institute before the High National Court legal proceedings for securing the responsibility of the ministers and the principal agents of the executive power;

To accuse and to prosecute before the same court those who shall be charged with attacks and conspiracies against the general security of the state or against the constitution

11th. To establish laws according to which purely personal marks of honor or decorations shall be granted to those who have rendered services to the state

12th. The legislative body alone has the right to award public honors to the memory of great men.

2. War can be declared only by a decree of the legislative body, rendered upon the formal and indispensable proposal of the king, and sanctioned by him.

In case hostilities are imminent or already begun, or in case of an alliance to sustain or a right to preserve by force of arms, the king shall give notification of it without delay to the legislative body and shall make known the causes thereof. If the legislative body is in recess the king shall convoke it immediately.

If the legislative body decides that war ought not to be made, the king shall take measures immediately to cause the cessation or prevention of all hostilities, the ministers remaining responsible for delays.

If the legislative body finds the hostilities already commenced to be a culpable aggression on the part of the ministers or of any other agent of the executive power, the author of the aggression shall be prosecuted criminally.

During the entire course of the war the legislative body can require the king to negotiate for peace; and the king is required to yield to this requisition.

As soon as the war shall have ceased the legislative body shall fix the period within which the troops raised in excess