shall consist of one member for consists of one single chamber of every 20,000 inhabitants. Every thirty-five members. year the Representative body The members of the Legislative shall be divided into a second Assembly are for the first time to chamber of thirty members and be appointed by the Council of a first chamber containing all State. Afterward their election the others. (There were will be regulated by law. ninety-four members in all.) To be entitled to vote one must The Representative Assembly is be either a Hollander who has to be elected in the following lived in the country for one year way: The country shall be divided or a foreigner who has lived in into ninety-four districts of the country for six whole years. 20,000 people each. These The declaration of abhorrence of districts are again divided the Stadholder, aristocracy, etc., into forty sub-districts is no longer insisted upon. A (grondvergadering) of 500 people single promise to "remain faithful Stadholder, aristocracy, etc., to the constitution" is now each. Each subdistrict elects one sufficient. candidate and one elector. If the The Council of State is composed same candidate was elected in of twelve members. The first seven twenty-one sub-districts he members are appointed by "the became a Representative. present Executive Council" (this Otherwise forty electors choose meant the three authors of the a Representative from among the constitution of the year 1810). three candidates who had the These seven were to appoint their largest number of votes. five colleagues. Each year one of Each year one third of the the twelve members was supposed to members of the Representative resign. A vacancy was filled as Assembly must resign, and a follows: The departmental circles new election for their places proposed four people. Out of those must be held. four the Legislative Assembly To be entitled to vote one elected two. From among those two must be either a Hollander who the Council of State then selected during the last two years has their new colleague. lived in the country or a The agents are replaced by foreigner who has resided in small advisory councils of three the republic during the last ten members. They are responsible years. The voter must be able to the Council of State. to read and write the Dutch The Legislative Assembly meets language, and must have passed twice a year: April 15 to June 1, the age of twenty. To qualify and October 15 to December 15. as a voter one must swear a The Council of State, however, can solemn oath to the effect that call together the Legislative one abhors the Stadholder, Assembly as often as it pleases. anarchy, aristocracy, and The Council of State proposes