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Rh 36. The annual stipend of a tribune is fifteen thousand francs; that of a legislator, ten thousand francs.

37. Every decree of the Legislative Body is promulgated by the First Consul the tenth day after its passage unless within that period it has been referred to the senate upon the ground of unconstitutionality. This recourse cannot be taken against promulgated laws.

38. The first renewal of the Legislative Body and of the Tribunate shall take place only in the course of the Year X.

Title IV. Of the Government.

39. The government is confided to three Consuls appointed for ten years and indefinitely re-eligible.

Each of them is elected individually with the distinguishing title of First, Second or Third Consul.

The constitution appoints as First Consul, Citizen Bonaparte, former provisional consul; as Second Consul, Citizen Cambacérès, former minister of justice; and as Third Consul, Citizen Lebrun, former member of the commission of the Council of Ancients.

For this time the Third Consul is appointed only for five years.

40. The First Consul has special duties and prerogatives in which he is temporarily replaced by one of his colleagues, when there is need.

41. The First Consul promulgates the laws; he appoints and dismisses at will the members of the Council of State, the ministers, the ambassadors and other foreign agents of high rank, the officers of the army and navy, the members of the local administrations, and the commissioners of the government before the tribunals. He appoints all criminal and civil judges, other than the justices of the peace and the judges of cassation, without power to remove them.

42. In the other acts of the government, the Second and Third Consuls have a consultative voice: they sign the register of these acts in order to attest their presence; and if they wish, they there record their opinions: after that the decision of the First Consul suffices.

43. The stipend of First Consul shall be five hundred thousand francs in the Year VIII. The stipend of each of the