THE SECRETARIES OF STATE ART. 76. For the transaction of the executive business the President of the Republic shall have as many Secretaries of State as the law may determine, and no one shall be a Secretary of State who is not a Cuban citizen in the full enjoyment of his civil and political rights. ART. 77. All decrees, orders and decisions of the President of the Republic shall be counter-signed by the secretary of State to whom the matter corresponds. Without this signature no decree, order or decision of the President shall have binding force nor shall it be obeyed. ART. 78. The secretaries of state shall be personally responsible for the measures signed by them, and jointly and severally for the measures agreed upon or authorized by them at a cabinet meeting. This responsibility does not exclude the personal and direct responsibility of the President of the Republic. ART. 79. The secretaries of state shall be impeachable before the Senate by the House of Representatives in the cases mentioned in the second paragraph of article 47. ART. 80. The secretaries of state shall receive from the State a salary, which may be changed at any time, but the change shall not go into effect until the next following presidential term. TITLE X THE JUDICIAL POWER SECTION FIRST THE EXERCISE OF THE JUDICIAL POWER ART. 81. The judicial power is vested in a Supreme Court of Justice and in all the other tribunals which may be established by law. The law shall regulate the respective organization and powers of these tribunals, the manner of exercising their powers, and the qualifications required of the judicial functionaries. SECTION SECOND THE SUPREME COURT OF JUSTICE ART. 82. To be Chief Justice or Associate Justice of the Supreme Court the following qualifications shall be required: 1. To be a Cuban by birth. 2. To be over thirty-five years of age. 3. To be in the full enjoyment of civil and political rights and not to have been condemned to any corporal punishment for common offenses. 4. To have in addition to the foregoing qualifications any one of the following: To have practiced in Cuba, during ten years at least, the profession of lawyer; or have discharged for the same length of time judicial functions, or have taught law for the same number of years in an official establishment. The following persons are also eligible for the positions of Chief Justice or Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, even if not having the qualifications set forth in clauses 1, 2, and 3 of this article: (a) Those who have served in the judiciary of the time determined by law in a position of equal or immediately inferior category. (b) Those who, previous to the promulgation of this constitution, served as justices of the supreme court of the island of Cuba. The time of service in the judiciary shall be computed as time of practice of law for the purpose of qualifying the lawyers to be appointed justices of the supreme court.