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TITLE III. GOVERNMENT.

CHAPTER I. The King.

XXXV. The government resides in the person of the King. He exercises in all their plenitude the functions of executive power. All executive and administrative authority must emanate from him.

XXXVI. The person of the King is sacred and inviolable.

XXXVII. The public acts of all tribunals, courts, and magistracies shall be drawn up in the King’s name. The impressions upon all coin and stamps shall be of his choice.

XXXVIII. The disposition of the armed force, in the time of peace, as well as in war, and the nomination of generals and officers belong exclusively to the King.

XXXIX. The King disposes of the revenues of the State, conformably to the budget, which is to be drawn up and submitted to his approbation.

XL. The right of making war, and of concluding all treaties and conventions, is reserved to the King.

XLI. The King is to nominate the senators, the ministers, the councellors of state, the masters of requests, the presidents of palatinate commissions, the presidents and judges of the