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APPENDIX.--II.
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37. It is necessary Cor those not born in the Territory of the
Federation, in order to be deputies, proprietary, or supernumerary,
to have had eight years' residence in it, and to
be worth 8,000 dollars in property, or to have an income of
some business of 1,000 dollars annually, and the qualifications
provided in the foregoing Article.
38. There are excepted from the foregoing, those born in
any other part of the Territory of America, which in the
year 1810 depended on Spain, and which may not have
united itself to any other nation, nor remained in dependence
on Spain; to those it is sufficient that they have been
three years, complete, in the Mexican Republic, and possess
the requisites prescribed in Article 36.
39. Those cannot be deputies, proprietary, or supernumerary;
First, The Governor, or Vice-Governor of the
State; the members of the Council of Government; those
employed in the Federation; the Civil Functionaries of the
State Government; the Ecclesiastics who exercise any
species of jurisdiction, or authority in some part of the district
where the election may be held; foreigners, at the time
wheln war may exist between the country of their nativity and
Mlexico.
40. In order that those public functionaries of the Federation,
or of the State, comprehended in the anterior article,
may be elected deputies, they ought absolutely to have
ceased the exercise of their functions four months before the
election.
41. If the same individual shall be named deputy proprietary
for two or more districts, the election of that district
in which he actually resides shall have preference. If
he does not reside in either, the election of the district of his
origin shall have preference. If he was neither a resident
nor a native of some one of the said districts, that shall stand
which the same elected deputy shall designate. In either of
these cases, or of the death or inability of the deputies
proprietary to discharge their functions according to the
judgment of Congress, their dulies shall devolve upon the
respective deputies supernumerary.
42. If it shall happen that the same citizen is elected
deputy supernumerary for two or more districts, in this
case the same order of preference provided for in the three
first parts or the anterior Article prevails. And in the district
which remains without a deputy supernumerary, the
vacancy shall be filled up by the person who, in the
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Kennedy, William. Texas: The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of Texas. Volume 2, book, 1841; London, England. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth2392/m1/455/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.