SEC. 14. Peace and order shall be maintained by sergeants-at-arms, with the assistance of the national guard, if necessary.

SEC. 15. In addition to the regulations contained in the foregoing sections, each house shall, in its first annual session, immediately adopt an order of business, in which the manner and form of deliberating and of voting and in general the internal affairs of the house shall be regulated. The part of this order of business which relates particularly to the order of deliberating may be altered only at the end of the annual session, after the close of the consideration of bills.

LAW 7 OF 1885 ALTERING THE ORGANIZATION OF THE TABLE OF MAGNATES1

CHAPTER I. THE ORGANIZATION OF THE TABLE OF

MAGNATES

SECTION I. Members of the Table of Magnates shall be those who have the right to sit and vote therein by virtue of: a) Hereditary right.

b) Of their high rank or office.

c) of their appointment for life by His Majesty the King. d) of election by the Diet of Croatia-Slavonia 2 in accordance with Law 15 of 1881.

SEC. 2. By virtue of hereditary right the following shall be members of the Table of Magnates:

a) The archdukes of the royal family, who are of full age. b) All male members, of twenty-four years of age, of families which have heretofore had the right of membership in the Hungarian Table of Magnates or which had received from the Hungarian King the title of count or baron in

1 Chaps. 2, 3, and 4 of this law are omitted; they contain provisions regarding the appointment of officers, order of business, and other matters of less importance.

2 Croatia-Slavonia elects three members of the Table of Magnates.

Transylvania before the union of that principality with Hungary, if they alone or together with the wives and minor children living in a common household with them, possess and enjoy or have a life interest or a family interest in trust in real estate within Hungarian territory, assessed upon the new cadaster of 1885 for the direct national land tax to an amount of not less than three thousand florins Austrian value, including therein the house taxes upon residences and industrial establishments attached to such real property.

With reference to families of magnates whose members, besides their rights in the Hungarian Upper House, have by birth or in some other manner a seat and vote in the legislature of another state of the monarchy or of any other country, it is provided that if they possess the property qualification mentioned in clause b) of this paragraph by virtue of their real property located in Hungarian territory, their rights in the Hungarian Upper House shall not be exercised unless they deliver once for all to the president of the Royal Hungarian Ministry a declaration that they for themselves will exercise such right only in the Hungarian Upper House; this declaration shall be made within six months after the completion of the twenty-fourth year, and if such age has already been reached, before the first of July, 1885.

The president of the Ministry shall transmit this declaration to the president of the Table of Magnates within eight days after its receipt, if the Diet is in session, and if it is not in session, within eight days after its assembling.

c) Hungarian citizens by birth and their legitimate male descendants in a direct line, upon whom His Majesty, upon the proposal of the Council of Ministers, has especially conferred the right of hereditary membership in the Table of Magnates, in addition to the corresponding title (duke, count, or baron).

Hungarian citizens who are not such by birth may be granted membership in the Upper House upon the proposal of the Council of Ministers only by means of legislation.

In either case the Council of Ministers may propose only Hungarian citizens of merit who have attained the age of twenty-four years, are of age, and possess the property qualifications provided by this section.

SEC. 3. If a member of one of the families designated in clauses b) and c) of sec. 2 does not possess the required property qualification or loses it later, his right shall cease from that time but shall be revived if he afterward regains this qualification.

In the latter case the right may be exercised in the session following the one in which the qualification is established.

SEC. 4. By virtue of their high rank or office, and during the continuance thereof the following shall be members of the Table of Magnates:

A. a) The standard-bearers of the kingdom and the Count of Pressburg.

b) The two curators of the crown.

c) The governor of Fiume.

d) The president and second president of the Supreme Court and the president of the Court of Appeals of Budapest. B. Also by virtue of their high rank and of their offices the following shall be members of the Table of Magnates during the continuance of their ecclesiastical offices:

a) The Roman Catholic church dignitaries of the Latin and Greek rite in the lands of the Holy Hungarian crown, viz.: the prince primate of Hungary and the other archbishops, the bishops of dioceses and the likewise royally appointed suffragans of Belgrad and Tinnin (Knin), and finally the archabbot of Martinsberg, the superior of Jászó, and the prior of Auran.

b) The dignitaries of the Oriental Greek church: the Servian Patriarch, the Rumanian Metropolitan, and the bishops of dioceses.

c) The three senior bishops of the Evangelical Reformed church and of the Evangelical church of the Augsburg Con

fession; the three senior superintendents of the Evangelical Reformed church, taking into account the religious district of Transylvania, especially the senior superintendent; the general inspector, and the two senior district inspectors of the Evangelical church of the Augsburg Confession; and finally one of the senior presidents, either bishop or superintendent, of the Unitarian church.

SEC. 5. Those whom His Majesty the King appoints, upon the proposal of the Council of Ministers, from among the citizens of all the countries of the Crown of St. Stephen, in recognition of merit and to increase the prestige of the Upper House thereby, shall be life members of the Table of Magnates.

As soon as the Upper House is organized in accordance with the present law, the number of members appointed for life shall not exceed thirty. In future such appointments shall take place gradually, and in no case shall more than five appointments be made in one year. The total number of life members shall never exceed fifty.

SEC. 6. The fact that a person is engaged in military service, is in the active performance of a civil or religious office, or is appointed to such a position, imposes no obstacle to the exercise of a right of membership in the Table of Magnates belonging to him, or to his being named a hereditary or life member thereof.

SEC. 7. Should new offices or positions of high rank be created or should new bishoprics or ecclesiastical districts be established by the religious confessions mentioned in sec. 4, such offices and positions shall not carry with them the right to a seat in the Table of Magnates, unless this is expressly provided by law.

SEC. 8. The members designated by sec. 1, clause d) shall have the right to take part in the deliberations and voting only with reference to the matters common to the countries and provinces of the Hungarian crown.

SEC. 9. Without prejudice to the provision of sec. 59 of Law 30 of 1868,3 no person shall be a member of the Table of Magnates who does not satisfy the provisions of sec. I of Law 44 of 1868, according to which Magyar is the only language of legislation.

SEC. 10. Members of the Table of Magnates shall lose their membership in the following cases:

a) A member by virtue of his high rank or office, when he ceases to hold such office or position, because of voluntary resignation or of legal disciplinary or judicial proceedings.

b) A life member when his resignation is accepted by His Majesty, upon the proposal of the Council of Ministers.

c) A member elected by the Diet of Croatia-Slavonia, when his term of election expires.

d) Any member, without reference to the legal basis of his membership, who may be condemned by the regular courts to prison or to imprisonment at hard labor, or for a crime or misdemeanor committed for the purpose of gain, or who has lost his citizenship.

SEC. II. The right is not lost but its exercise is suspended:

a) During the time for which a member has been condemned by the regular courts to a suspension of political rights on account of a crime or misdemeanor not coming within sec. 10, clause d).

b) During the period of bankruptcy, of those who become bankrupt.

c) During the continuance of guardianship, of those who have been placed under guardianship, except in cases of guardianship because of prodigality or absence.

d) For hereditary members, during the session in the course of which it is decided, in accordance with sec. 19 of this law, that they have lost the property qualification of membership.

The law which permits the members from Croatia-Slavonia to use their own language in the Hungarian Diet.