Chile 1925 Constitution - Page 10 of 10

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Transitory Provisions

First

The existing laws respecting the matters treated of in Article 30, Paragraph 3; Article 73, Paragraphs 8, 13 and 14, and Article 95, Paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Constitution of 1823 are abolished by this constitutional reform.

For five years the State will hand over to His Grace the Archbishop of Santiago the sum of two million five hundred thousand pesos annually, to be expended in the country on the ritual needs of the Catholic Church.

Second

Elections to choose the new President of the Republic will be held on October 24, 1925, in order to comply with the provisions of Article 63 and so that the President-elect may take office on December 23 of the same year.

Third

Proclamation of the new President of the Republic, or his selection in case no citizen obtains the necessary majority at the polls, will be made by the Deputies and Senators elected in conformity with the following provisions. For this sole purpose the Qualification Court will give special warrants to the candidates whom it may regard as having the best right in view of the antecedents as may be known.

The groups of adjoining departments mentioned in Article 37 will be fixed provisionally by the President of the Republic with reference to the general census taken on December 15, 1920.

Fourth

The general elections for the new Congress will be held on Sunday, November 22, 1925.

Fifth

Until the law shall fix the provincial groupings referred to in Article 40 the following are constituted:

Tarapacá and Antofagasta;
Atacama and Coquimbo;
Aconcagua and Valparaiso;
Santiago;
O’Higgins, Colchagua and Curicó;
Talca, Linares and Maule;
Ñuble, Conceptión and Bio-bio;
Arauco, Malleco and Cautín;
Valdivia, Llanquihue and Chiloé.

Sixth

The electoral law for the New Congress will determine the manner of selecting the Senators that in each group of provinces shall serve for a period of eight years and those who serve for a period of four years only, with the view of regulating the election of the Senate by parts in conformity with Article 41.

Seventh

The constitutional period for the new Congress will begin to count from May 21, 1926, without prejudice to its being called in extraordinary session as soon as the Qualification Court may finally approve the warrants of the Deputies and Senators.

Eighth

The salary to be paid Deputies and Senators, until the respective law is enacted, shall be two thousand pesos a month.

From this sum shall be deducted monthly the amount of fifty pesos for each session of the Chamber or of the Committee that is not held or which adjourns on account of the failure of the Deputy or Senator to attend, except in the case where two or more committees meet at the same time and he may have attended one of them.

Ninth

For the purposes of Article 79 it shall be considered that all persons who may have discharged the office of President or Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies or of the Senate prior to the promulgation of this reform of the Constitution, have had the one year of duration in office that the article exacts.