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10. If the President finds after investigation that any unqualified person has been elected to the House of Representatives, he shall cause his name to be removed from the list of Members.
11. Societies formed in the provinces by the literati and gentry for the study of Parliamentary questions are subject to the Regulations governing political Societies. They must not levy contributions or otherwise disturb the people in the locality, and, in the event of any offence against this rule, the Society may be dissolved and the members punished by the local authorities.
Section 4.-Methods of Election to the House of Representatives.
1. The election of Members of the House of Representatives shall be under the supervision of Prefects, Sub-Prefects, and Department and District Magistrates.
2. Only persons possessing the necessary qualifications are eligible for election or have the right to vote. The following classes of persons are debarred from exercising the franchise: lawless and disorderly persons, those who have in the past been sentenced to imprisonment or any more severe punishment; those gaining their livelihood by illegal means; those who have failed to satisfy any judgment given against them; opium smokers; lunatics and illiterate persons.
3. When the time for an election arrives, an Election Officer and a Superintendent shall be appointed to supervise the voting.
4. Special Regulations shall be prepared, and persons committing offences, such as personation or altering the register, will be liable to fine and imprisonment.
5. Election shall be by ballot, the candidate obtaining the most votes being elected, provided that legal requirements have all been observed.
6. No one can exercise the right of voting or be eligible for election unless he has resided in the place where he is registered for at least a year prior to the date of the election.
Section 5.-Preparatory Measures to be introduced year by year prior to the Inauguration of a House of Representatives.
(In the original the authority responsible for the introduction of the measure is specified in each case, the Constitutional Reform Commission, the Board of the Interior, the provincial authorities, &c., being nominated according to the nature of the measure.)
First year, 34th of Kuang Hsü (1908–9):
1. Preparations for the establishment of District Councils ("Tzu-i-Chu").
2. Issue of Regulations for the establishment of local government in towns and villages.
3. Issue of Regulations for taking a census.
4. Issue of Regulations for the reform of the financial system.
5. A Memorial shall be submitted to the Throne, praying for the establishment of a special Department for the purpose of reforming the administration of the bannermen (Manchus), providing them with means of livelihood, and removing distinctions between Manchus and Chinese.
6. Compilation of books for teaching a simple system of reading.
7. Compilation of other necessary educational works.
8. Reform of the criminal law.
9. Preparation of a digest of the laws governing civil and commercial cases, &c.
Second year:
1. Inauguration of District Councils in all the provinces.
2. Issue of Regulations for the Senate, and election of Members.
3. Preparations for establishing local government in towns and villages, and opening of bureaux for the study of this question.
4. Issue of Regulations for local government in sub-prefectures, departments, and districts.
5. Census of the total population of each province.
6. Organization of the public service in the capital.
7. Preparation of Regulations for the examination, employment, and salaries of civil officials.
8. Issue of Rules for the administration of the High Court.
9. Preparations for the establishment, within a year, of Courts of Justice at all provincial capitals, ports, &c.
10. New criminal laws to be made.
11. Establishment in sub-prefectures, departments, and districts of schools for teaching a simple system of reading, and issue of books for the purpose.
12. Issue of useful educational works.
13. Organization within a year of a provisional system for the policing of sub-prefectures, departments, and districts.
Third year:
1. Opening of the Senate.
2. Extension of the system of local government in towns and villages.
3. Preparations for the establishment of local government in sub-prefectures, departments, and districts.
4. Collective Report on the population of all the provinces.
5. Institution of a system of registration.
6. Investigation of the revenue and expenditure of each province.
7. Regulations with regard to local taxation to be drawn up.
8. Introduction of provisional system for the preparation of the Budgets by each province.
9. Organization of the public service in the provinces.
10. Issue of Regulations for the examination, employment, and salaries of civil officials.
11. Establishment of Courts of Justice in all provincial capitals, ports, &c.
12. Issue of new criminal laws.
13. Additional schools for teaching a simple system of reading to be opened in sub-prefectures, departments, and districts.
Fourth year:
1. Extension of the system of local government in towns and villages.
2. Extension of the system of local government in sub-prefectures, &c.
3. Investigation of the population of all the provinces.
4. Preparation of a system for drawing up a national Budget.
5. Investigation of the revenue and expenditure of each province.
6. Issue of Regulations regarding local taxation.
7. Preparation of Regulations regarding State taxation.
8. The Regulations regarding the examination, employment, and salaries of civil officials to be put in force.
9. Preparations for the establishment of Courts in prefectures, sub-prefectures, departments, and districts.
10. Establishment of schools for teaching a simple system of reading in towns and villages.
11. Preparations for the establishment of police force in towns and villages.
12. Concluding the preparation of a digest of the laws regarding civil, commercial, and criminal cases.
Fifth year:
1. A provisional general scheme for the local government of towns and villages to be put in force within a year.
2. Extension of the system of local government in sub-prefectures, &c.
3. Collective Report on the population of all the provinces.
4. Issue of a system of registration.
5. Courts of Justice to be established within a year in all prefectures, sub-prefectures, departments, and district cities.
6. Issue of Regulations with regard to State taxation.
7. Inauguration of new system of official organization in the capital and provinces.
8. Extension of reading schools in towns and villages.
9. Extension of police system in towns and villages.