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92 The distinctions of rank and subordination exist only in relation to the service and during its continuance.

6. The officers are elected at stated times and they can be re-elected only after an interval of service as soldiers.

No one shall command the national guard of more than one district.

7. All parts of the public force employed for the security of the state against enemies from abroad shall act under the orders of the king.

8. No corps nor detachment of troops of the line can act in the interior of the kingdom without a legal requisition.

9. No agent of the public force can enter into the house of a citizen, except for the execution of the warrants of police and justice, or in the cases expressly provided for by law.

10. The requisition of the public force within the interior of the realm belongs to the civil officers, according to the regulations determined by the legislative power.

11. If disorders disturb an entire department, the king, under the responsibility of his ministers, shall give the necessary orders for the execution of the laws and for the re-establishment of order, but subject to informing the legislative body thereof, if it is assembled, and of convoking it, if it is in recess.

12. The public force is essentially, obedient; no armed body can deliberate.

13. The army and navy and the troops designed for the internal security are subject to special laws, in the matter of military offences, both for the maintenance of discipline and for the form of the trials and the nature of the penalties.

Title V. Of the Public Taxes

1. The public taxes are considered and fixed each year by the legislative body and they shall not remain in force beyond the last day of the following session, unless they have been expressly renewed.

2. Under no pretext shall the funds necessary for the discharge of the national debt and the payment of the civil list be refused or suspended.

The compensation of the ministers of the Catholic worship, pensioned, maintained, elected, or appointed in virtue of the