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Council of State, by the council of the prefecture, and, in the colonies, by the privy council.

"Delegates whose elections may be set aside because they do not satisfy the conditions demanded by law, or because of informality, shall be replaced by the alternates.

"In case the election of a delegate and of an alternate is annulled, or in the case of the refusal or death of both of them after their acceptance, new elections shall be held by the municipal council on a day fixed by an order of the prefect.

"Art. 14. The first ballot shall begin at eight o'clock in the morning and close at noon. The second shall begin at two o'clock and close at five o'clock. The third shall begin at seven o'clock and close at ten o'clock. The results of the balloting shall be canvassed by the bureau and announced immediately by the president of the electoral college.

"Art. 16. Political meetings for the nomination of senators may be held from the date of the promulgation of the decree summoning the electors up to the day of the election, inclusive.

"The declaration prescribed by Article 2 of the law of June 30, 1881, shall be made by two voters, at least.2

"The forms and regulations of this article, as well as those of article 3, shall be observed.

"The members of Parliament elected or electors in the department, the senatorial electors, delegates and alternates, and the candidates, or their representatives, may alone be present at these meetings.

"The municipal authorities shall see to it that no other person is admitted.

"Delegates and alternates shall present as a means of identification a certificate from the mayor of the commune; candidates or their representatives, a certificate from the offi

The law of June 30, 1881, relates to notice which must be given to the authorities before any public meeting can be held.

cial who shall have received the declaration mentioned in

paragraph 2.

"Art. 19. Every attempt at corruption or constraint by the employment of means enumerated in Arts. 177 and following of the Penal Code, to influence the vote of an elector or to keep him from voting, shall be punished by imprisonment of from three months to two years, and by a fine of from fifty francs to five hundred francs, or by either of these penalties. "Art. 463 of the Penal Code is applicable to the penalties provided by the present article.

"Art. 23. Vacancies caused by the death or resignation of senators shall be filled within three months; however, if the vacancy occurs within six months preceding the triennial elections, it shall not be filled until those elections."

ART. 9. There are repealed:

1) Arts. I to 7 of the law of February 24, 1875, on the organization of the Senate.

2) Arts. 24 and 25 of the law of August 2, 1875, on the elections of senators.3

LAW AMENDING THE ELECTORAL LAW 1

(June 16, 1885)

ARTICLE I. The members of the Chamber of Deputies shall be elected by scrutin de liste.

ART. 2. Each department shall elect the number of deputies assigned to it in the table annexed to the present law, on the basis of one deputy for seventy thousand inhabitants, foreign residents not included. Account shall be taken, nevertheless, of every fraction smaller than seventy thousand.

Each department shall elect at least three deputies.

The temporary provisions of this law are omitted. They are practically repeated in the law of December 26, 1887, on parliamentary incompatibilities. See p. 317.

1 Arts. 1, 2, and 3 of this law were repealed by law of February 13, 1889. See p. 318.

Two deputies are assigned to the territory of Belfort, six to Algeria, and ten to the colonies, as is indicated by the table. This table shall only be changed by law.

ART. 3. The department shall form a single electoral district.

ART. 4.

Members of families that have reigned in France

are ineligible to the Chamber of Deputies.2

ART. 5. No one shall be elected on the first ballot unless he receives:

1) an absolute majority of the votes cast;

2) a number of votes equal to one-fourth of the total number of voters registered.

On the second ballot a plurality shall be sufficient.

In case of an equality of votes, the oldest of the candidates is elected.

ART. 6. Subject to the case of a dissolution provided for and regulated by the constitution, the general elections shall take place within the sixty days preceding the expiration of the powers of the Chamber of Deputies.

ART. 7.

Vacancies which occur in the six months preceding the renewal of the Chamber shall not be filled.

LAW ON PARLIAMENTARY INCOMPATIBILITIES (December 26, 1887)

Until the passage of a special law on parliamentary incompatibilities, Arts. 8 and 9 of the law of November 30, 1875, shall apply to senatorial elections.1

Every officer affected by this provision who has had twenty years of service and is fifty years of age at the time of his acceptance of the office of senator, may establish his rights to a proportional retiring pension, which shall be governed by the third paragraph of Art. 12 of the law of June 9, 1853

2 For similar provisions regarding the presidency of the Republic and the Senate, see Art. 2 of the constitutional law of August 13, 1884, and Art. 4 of the law of December 9, 1884, pp. 294, 312.

1 See this law, p. 302.

See also Art. 20 of the law of August 2, 1875,

p. 300.

LAW RE-ESTABLISHING SINGLE DISTRICTS FOR THE ELECTION OF DEPUTIES

(February 13, 1889)

ARTICLE I. Arts. 1, 2, and 3 of the law of June 16, 1885, are repealed.

ART. 2. Members of the Chamber of Deputies shall be elected by single districts. Each administrative arrondissement in the departments, and each municipal arrondissement at Paris and at Lyons, shall elect one deputy. Arrondissements the population of which exceeds one hundred thousand inhabitants shall elect an additional deputy for every one hundred thousand or fraction of one hundred thousand inhabitants. Arrondissements in such cases shall be divided into districts, a table1 of which is annexed to the present law and shall only be changed by law.

ART. 3.

One deputy is assigned to the territory of Belfort, six to Algeria, and ten to the colonies, as is indicated by the table.

ART. 4. On and after the promulgation of the present law, until the renewal of the Chamber of Deputies, vacancies occurring in the Chamber of Deputies shall not be filled.

LAW ON MULTIPLE CANDIDATURES

(July 17, 1889)

ARTICLE I. No one shall be a candidate in more than one district.

ART. 2. Every citizen who offers himself or is offered at the general or partial elections shall, by a declaration signed or countersigned by himself and duly legalized, make known in what district he intends to be a candidate. This declaration shall be deposited, and a provisional receipt obtained therefor,

1 This table is omitted. It may be found in the Journal officiel for February 14, 1889; it has been modified by laws of July 22, 1893, April 6, 1898, and March 30, 1902.

at the prefecture of the department concerned at least five days before the day of election. A definitive receipt shall be delivered within twenty-four hours.

ART. 3. Every declaration made in violation of Art. I of the present law is void and shall not be received.

If declarations are deposited by the same citizen in more than one district the earliest in date alone is valid. If they bear the same date, all are void.

ART. 4. It is forbidden to sign or post placards, to carry or distribute ballots, circulars, or platforms in the interest of a candidate who has not conformed to the requirements of the present law.

ART. 5. Ballots bearing the name of a citizen whose candidacy is put forward in violation of the present law shall not be included in the return of votes. Posters, placards, platforms, and ballots posted or distributed in support of a candidacy in a district where such candidacy is contrary to the law, shall be removed or seized.

ART. 6. A fine of ten thousand francs shall be imposed upon the candidate violating the provisions of the present law, and a fine of from one to five thousand francs on all persons acting in violation of Art. 4 of the present law.

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