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220 MEXICO. To give its consent to calling out the local militia in the cases prescribed by Article 110. To approve the appointment of government officers, as provided by the same article. To name two individuals, who, in conjunction with the President of the Supreme Court of Justice, may exercise the Executive Powers, in the event of the demise, absence, or in- capacity, (physical or moral,) of the President, and Vice-Presi- dent. ( Vide Article 97-) To swear in the Members of the Executive thus con- stituted. To give an opinion in all cases upon which the President may consult it, either in virtue of the twenty-first Facultad, (subdivision) of the 10th Article or any other. (Article 110.) For the dispatch of business, the Government is divided into Departments, at the head of each of which is a Secretary of State, who becomes responsible for all the acts in his de- partment, to which his signature is affixed. (Articles II7, 118, 119.) The Secretaries of State are bound to present to Congress a report of the state of their different departments at the commencement of the annual sessions, which report includes the budget for the ensuing year. (Article 120.) They must be Mexican citizens by birth. (Article 121.) The Judicial Power is lodged in a Supreme Tribunal of Justice; and in inferior Courts of Departments, and Dis- tricts, the number of which is determined by the Congress. (Article 123.) The Supreme Court is composed of eleven Judges and one Fiscal, or Attorney General. (Article 124.) Its Members must be Mexicans born, and thirty-five years of age. They are elected by the Legislature of the States in the same manner, and with the same formalities, as the Presi- dent, and cannot be removed, unless in cases specified by law. (Articles 125—136. They take cognizance of all differences between two or