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Rh The cantons preserve their present circumscriptions.

Their boundaries, nevertheless, can be changed or rectified by the legislative body; but in that case there shall not be more than one myriameter (two common leagues of two thousand five hundred and sixty-six toises each) of the commune the most remote from the head-town of the canton.

6. The French colonies are integral parts of the Republic and are subject to the same constitutional law.

7. They are divided into departments as follows:

The island of Saint Domingo, of which the legislative body shall determine the division, into four departments at least and into six at most;

Guadaloupe, Marie Galante, Desirade, the Saintes, and the French part of Saint Martin;

Martinique;

French Guiana and Cayenne;

Saint Lucia and Tabago;

The Isle of France, the Seychelles, Rodriguez, the settlements of Madagascar;

The Island of Réunion;

The East Indies, Pondicherry, Chandernagor, Mahé, Karikal and other settlements.

Title II. Political Condition of the Citizens.

8. Every man born and residing in France, fully twenty-one years of age, who has had himself enrolled upon the civic register of his canton, who has lived for a year past upon the soil of the Republic, and who pays a direct land or personal property tax, is a French citizen.

9. Frenchmen who shall have made one or more campaigns for the establishment of the Republic are citizens, without condition as to tax.

10. A foreigner becomes a French citizen when, after having fully reached the age of twenty-one years and having declared an intention to settle in France, he has resided here for seven consecutive years provided he pays a direct tax, and in addition possesses real estate or an agricultural or commercial establishment, or has married a French woman.

11. Only French citizens can vote in the primary assemblies and be summoned to the offices established by the constitution.