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246 295. No foreign troops can be introduced upon French territory without the previous consent of the legislative body.

Title X. Public Instruction.

296. There are in the Republic primary schools where the pupils may learn reading, writing, the elements of computation and those of morality. The Republic provides for the expense of the lodgings of the instructors who preside over these schools.

297. There are in the different parts of the Republic schools higher than the primary schools, the number of which shall be such that there shall be at least one of them for every two departments.

298. There is for the whole Republic a national institute charged with the collection of discoveries and the perfecting of the arts and sciences.

299. The different establishments of public instruction have between them no relation of subordination nor of administrative correspondence.

300. Citizens have the right to form private establishments for education and instruction as well as free societies to promote the progress of science, letters, and the arts.

301. There shall be national festivals established in order to maintain fraternity among the citizens and to attach them to the constitution, the fatherland, and the laws.

Title XI. Taxes.

302. The public taxes are considered and fixed each year by the legislative body. The imposition of them belongs to it alone. They cannot continue more than one year unless they are expressly renewed.

303. The legislative body can create any kind of tax that it shall believe necessary; but it shall establish each year a land tax and a personal property tax.

304. Every person, who, not being included in the case of articles 12 and 13 of the constitution, has not been included on the roll of the direct taxes, has the right to present himself to the municipal administration of his commune and to be enrolled there for a personal tax equal to the local value of three days of agricultural labor.

305. The registration mentioned in the preceding article