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 ART. 60. Ministers are responsible to the two Chambers, and must, in case of their presence being required by either Chamber, appear before it, and must observe the limitations of their responsibility in all such matters as are committed to their charge.

61. Ministers, besides being individually responsible for the affairs specially appertaining to their own Ministry, are also collectively responsible to the two Chambers for one another’s actions in affairs of a more general character.

62. The number of Ministers shall be defined by law, according to the requirements of the time.

63. The honorary title of Minister is entirely abolished.

64. Ministers cannot divest themselves of their responsibility by pleading verbal or written orders from the King.

65. The National Consultative Assembly, or the Senate, can call Ministers to account or bring them to trial.

66. The Law shall determine the responsibility of Ministers and the punishments to which they are liable.

67. If the National Consultative Assembly or the Senate shall, by an absolute majority, declare itself dissatisfied with the Cabinet, or with one particular Minister, that Cabinet or Minister shall resign their or his ministerial functions.

68. Ministers may not accept a salaried office other than their own.

69. The National Consultative Assembly or the Senate shall declare the delinquencies of Ministers in the presence of the Court of Cassation, and the said Court, all the members of the tribunals comprised in it being present, will pronounce judgement, save in cases when the accusation and prosecution refer to the Minister in his private capacity, and are outside the scope of the functions of government entrusted to him in his ministerial capacity.

(N.B. So long as the Court of Cassation is not established, a Commission chosen from the Members of the two Chambers in equal moieties shall discharge the function of that Court.)

70. The determination of the delinquencies of Ministers, and of the punishments to which they are liable, in case they incur