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solute plurality of votes, a President and Vice President,
and two Secretaries, upon which the permanent deputation
shall cease in all its functions, and those of its members
not re-elected having retired, the President of Congress
shall declare that it is solemnly and legitimately constituted.
83.
For the celebration of the ordinary and extraordinary
sessions of Congress, the deputies shall meet four days
previous to its organization, in the manner prescribed in the
first part of Article 80, in order to resolve in the manner
expressed in the second part of the same Article upon the
legitimacy of the credentials and qualifications of the new
deputies who present themselves; and having approved of
them, the deputies shall immediately take the oath prescribed
by Article 81, and in continuation, shall proceed to
make nomination of the President, Vice President, and
Secretaries, in the same manner which is provided in Article
82.
84. The Congress shall open its ordinary sessions the
first day of January in every year, and the first day of September
in each year following the renovation of the same
Congress; the Governor of the State being obliged to
assist upon so important an occasion, when he shall pronounce
a suitable discourse, which the President of Congress
shall answer in general terms.
85. On the day after the opening of the ordinary session,
the Governor shall present in person to Congress a written
account of the state of the public administration, proposing
such amendments or reforms as may be required in its
different branches.
86. The session of Congress shall be held daily, without
other interruption than those of solemn festivals. All
the proceedings shall be public, with the exception of those
which treat of reserved business, which may be secret.
87. The ordinary sessions of Congress, which commence
the first day of January, shall last that month and the three
following, February, March, and April, and cannot be
prorogued to any other month, except in the two following
instances; first, by petition of the Governor, and secondly,
if the same Congress deem   it necessary-for this, there
must be the concurrence, in both cases, of the vote of twothirds
of the deputies. The ordinary sessions, which commence
on the first of September, shall last thirty days of