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Article 25.---The President makes treaties; but should articles therein provide for any change of territory, or increase the burdens of the citizens, the concurrence of the Legislature shall be required.
Article 26.-The President may, in accordance with the provisions of the statutes, declare a state of siege.
Article 27.-The President may confer titles of nobility, rank, orders and other marks of honour.
Article 28.-The President may grant general amnesty, special pardon, commutation of punishment and restoration of rights. In the case of general amnesty the concurrence of the Legislature shall be required.
Article 29.-When the President, for any cause, vacates his office or is unable to exercise the powers and functions connected therewith, the Vice- President shall act in his stead.
CHAPTER 4.-LEGISLATURE.
Article 30.-Statutes shall be enacted by the Legislature composed of members elected by the people.
The organization of the Legislature and the method of the election of its members shall be prescribed and determined by the Constitutional Compact Conference.
Article 31.-The competence of the Legislature shall be as follows:-
(1) To discuss and pass bills.
(2) To discuss and pass the estimates.
(3) To discuss and pass or approve measures relating to the assumption of public debts, and to the contracting of other liabilities to the charge of the National Treasury.
(4) To reply to enquiries addressed to it by the President.
(5) To receive petitions from the people.
(6) To initiate legislation.
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(7) To submit to the President suggestions and opinions relating to legislation and other matters.
(8) To raise questions in regard to administration over which doubts have arisen and to request the President to reply thereon. But the President may refuse to reply should he deem it necessary for the matter to be kept in secret.
(9) Should the President make an attempt against the state the Legislature may institute against him impeachment proceedings in the Supreme Court of Justice, if approved by a majority of three-fourths or over, of a quorum of four-fifths or over, of the total number of members of the Legislature.
The exercise of the powers mentioned in Clauses 1 to 8 of this Article, and Articles 20, 25, 28, 55 and 57 shall require the concurrence of a majority of the members present in the Legislature.
Article 32.-The annual session of the Legislature shall not exceed four months in duration, but may be prolonged should the President consider it
necessary.
The President may call an extraordinary session during the
recess,
Article 33.-The deliberations of the Legislature shall be public, but the members may sit behind closed doors at the request of the President, or as a result of the decision of a majority of the members present.
Article 34.-Bills which have passed the Legislature shall be pro- mulgated and enforced by the President.
But if the President shall disapprove a bill duly passed in the Legislature, he may return the bill to the Legislature for reconsideration, with a statement of the reasons of his disapproval. Even in case that the former decision of the Legislature be adhered to by a majority of two-thirds or over, of the members present, if the President still maintain that the bill would greatly endanger and harm, either the internal administration of the state, or its foreign relations, or that there are great and important obstacles in the way of its execution, in such a case the President may, with the concurrence of the Council of State, withhold promulgation.
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