SECTION B.

ARTICLES which have relation to the Penal Proceedings of Finance.

in the
other State
for
evasion of
Clearance.

Imposts.

Fines.

Expenses
of Pro-
ceedings.

4

5

6

7

ceedings

taken on
account of

the other

State.

Progressive Number.

8

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CONSTITUTION of the Argentine Republic.—Santa Fé, September 25, 1860.

(Translation.)

WE, the representatives of the people of the Argentine Nation, assembled in General Constituent Congress by the will and election of the provinces composing the nation, in fulfilment of pre-existing compacts, for the purpose of constituting the national Union, assuring justice, consolidating internal peace, providing for the common defence, promoting the general welfare, and securing the benefits of liberty for ourselves, for our posterity, and for people from all parts of the world who wish to dwell upon Argentine soil; invoking the protection of God, the source of all reason and justice, do order, decree and establish this Constitution for the Argentine Nation.

PART I.

Sole Chapter. Declarations, Rights, and Guarantees.

ART. I. The Argentine Nation adopts the Representative, Republican, Federal form of Government, as established by the present Constitution.

II. The Federal Government supports the Apostolic Roman Catholic worship.

III. The authorities which exercise the Federal Government reside in the city which is declared the capital of the Republic by a special law of Congress; the territory to be federalized having been previously ceded by one or more of the Provincial Legislatures.

IV. The Federal Government provides for the expenses of the

nation from the funds of the National Treasury, arising from the produce of the duties on importation and exportation, until 1866, in accordance with the provision in the first section of Article LXVII, from that of the sale or letting of lands belonging to the nation, from the postal revenue, from the other taxes imposed on the people equitably and proportionably by the General Congress; and from the loans or credit transactions which that Congress decrees for urgencies of the nation, or for undertakings of national utility.

V. Each province shall enact a Constitution for itself upon the representative republican system, in accordance with the principles, declarations and guarantees of the national Constitution; and which shall secure its administration of justice, its municipal government, and primary education. Upon these conditions the Federal Government guarantees to each province the enjoyment and exercise of its institutions.

VI. The Federal Government intervenes in the territory of the provinces to guarantee the republican form, on the requisition of their constituted authorities, to maintain them or to re-establish them if they should have been deposed by sedition or by invasion from another province.

VII. The public acts and judicial proceedings of one province enjoy entire trust in the others; and the Congress may by general laws determine what shall be the probatory form of those acts and proceedings, and the legal effects which they are to produce.

VIII. The citizens of each province enjoy all the rights, privileges, and immunities inherent in the title of citizen in all the others. The extradition of criminals is a reciprocal obligation among all the provinces.

IX. There shall be none other than national Custom-Houses throughout the territory of the nation, and the tariffs observed therein shall be those which the Congress sanctions.

X. The circulation of goods of the national production or manufacture is free of duty in the interior of the Republic, as well as that of all kinds of merchandize and commodities dispatched at the exterior Custom-Houses.

XI. Articles of national or foreign production and manufacture, as well as cattle of all kinds which pass through the territory of one province to another, shall be free from what are called transit dues, together with the vehicles, vessels, or animals which transport them; and no other duty can be imposed on them hereafter, whatever may be its denomination, for the act of passing through the territory.

XII. Vessels going from one province to another shall not be obliged to enter, anchor, and pay duty on account of transit; nor