cisco Gurgel do Amaral Valente; José de Segadas Vianna; Manoel Benicio Fontenelle; Paulo Baeta Neves; Antonio José da Silva; Edmundo Barreto Pinto; Abelardo dos Santos Mata; Jarbas de Lery Santos; Ezequiel da Silva Mendes; Alexandre Marcondes Filho; Hugo Borghi; Guaracy Silveira; José Correira Pedroso Junior; Romeu José Fiori; Bertho Condé; Euzebio Rocha; Mélo Braga; Arthur Fischer; Gregorio Bezerra; Agostinho Oliveira; Alcedo Coutinho; Luiz Carlos Prestes; João Amazonas; Mauricio Grabois; Joaquim Baptista Neto; Claudino J. Silva; Alcides Sabença; Jorge Amado; José Chrispim; Oswaldo Pachedo da Silva; Caires de Brito; Abilio Fernandes; Lino Machado; Souza Leão; Durval Cruz; Amando Fontes; Jacy de Figueiredo; Daniel de Carvalho; Mario Brant; A. Bernardes Filho; Philippe Balbi; Arthur Bernardes; Altino Arantes; Munhoz da Rocha; Deodoro Machado de Mendonça; Olavo Oliveira; Stenio Gomes; João Adeodato; Café Filho; Theodulo Albuquerque; Romeu de Campos Vergal; Dr. P. Alfredo de Arruda Camara; Manoel Victor; Hermes Lima; Domingos Velasco; Raul Pilla.
The Constituent Assembly decrees and promulgates the following
ACT OF CONSTITUTIONAL TRANSITORY PROVISIONS
Art. 1—After promulgation of this Act, the Constituent Assembly shall, on the following day, elect the Vice-President of the Republic for the first constitutional period.
§ 1. Such election, for which none shall be ineligible, shall be made by secret scrutiny and shall, on the first ballot, be by absolute majority of votes, or if none of the voted candidates obtain it, by relative majority the second time.
§ 2. The Vice-President elect shall take office before the Assembly on the same date, or else before the Federal Senate.
§ 3. The mandate of the Vice-President shall terminate simultaneously with that of the first presidential period.
Art. 2.—The mandate of the President of the Republic in office (Art. 82 of the Constitution) shall count as from the date of his taking office.
§ 1. The mandates of the present deputies and those of the federal senators who where elected in order to complete the number prescribed by Paragraph 1 of Art. 60 of the Constitution, shall coincide with that of the President of the Republic.
§ 2. The mandates of the other senators shall terminate on 31st January 1955.
§ 3. The mandates of the governors and of the deputies to the Legislative Assemblies, as well as those of the municipal councilors in the Federal District, elected in accordance with Art. 11 of this Act, shall expire on the same date as that of the President of the Republic.
Art. 3—The Constituent Assembly, after fixing the pecuniary grant of the President and Vice-President of the Republic, for the first constitutional period, as per Art. 86 of the Constitution, shall consider its mission completed and shall be separated into the Chamber (of deputies) and the Senate, which shall initiate the exercise of their respective legislative powers.
Art. 4—The Capital of the Union shall be moved to the central plateau of the country.
§ 1. Within sixty days from the promulgation of the present Act, the President of the Republic shall appoint a committee of technicians of recognized skill to proceed with the study of the prospective site for the new capital.
§ 2. The study referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be sent up to the National Congress which shall deliberate thereon and frame a special law, and shall establish the time limit in which to begin the delimitation of the area to be incorporated into the domain of the Union.
§ 3. Upon the completion of the work of demarkation, the National Congress shall decide upon the date of removal of the capital.
§ 4. The transfer (of the capital) having been made, the present Federal District shall constitute the State of Guanabara.
Art. 5—Federal intervention in the case of Item No. VI of Art. 7 of the Constitution, with reference to the States in arrears with the payment of their funded debt, cannot be effected earlier than two years from the date of promulgation of this Act.
Art. 6—Within three years from the promulgation of this Act, the States shall undertake, by mutual agreement, the remarkation of their boundaries, being permitted, for this purpose, to make alterations and compensations of areas in accordance with the natural features of the terrain, administrative conveniences and the convenience of the frontier populations.
§ 1. If the States interested so request, the Government of the Union shall entrust the work of demarkation to the Geographical Service of the Army.
§ 2. If such States do not comply with the requirements of this article, the Federal Senate shall deliberate with respect thereto, without prejudice to the competence established by Art. 101, No. 1, letter e) of the Constitution.
Art. 7—The cattle ranches belonging to the domain of the Union, situated in the territory of the state of Piaui, and remaining from confiscation of the Jesuits during the colonial period, shall become the property of that State.
Art. 8—The present Territories of Iguaçu and Ponta Pora are hereby declared extinct, their respective areas returning to the States from which they were dismembered.
Sole Paragraph—The judges and, when enjoying stability in office, the members of the Attorney General's Office in the Territories now extinct, shall continue on the available list, with pay, until able to be utilized in federal or state posts, the nature of which, as well as the corresponding remuneration, may be compatible with those which they were occupying at the date of the promulgation of this Act.
Art. 9—The Territory of Acre shall be raised to the category of a State, with the name of State of Acre, as soon as its revenues become equal to those of the State which presently brings in the lowest return.
Art. 10—The provisions of Art. 56 of the Constitution do not apply to the Territory of Fernando de Noronha.
Art. 11—On the first Sunday after one hundred and twenty days, counted from the promulgation of this Act, there shall take place, in each State, the election of the Governor and of the Deputies to the Legislative Assemblies, which, at the beginning, shall have a constituent function.
§ 1. In the first election, the number of deputies to the State Assemblies shall be as follows: Amazonas, thirty; Pará, thirty-seven; Maranhão, thirty-six; Piauí, thirty-two; Ceara, forty-five; Rio Grande do Norte, thirty-two; Paraíba, thirty-seven; Pernambuco, fifty-five; Alagoas, thirty-five; Sergipe, thirty-two; Bahia, sixty; Espírito Santo, thirty-two; Rio de Janeiro, fifty-four; São Paulo, seventy-five; Paraná, thirty-seven; Santa Catarina, thirty-seven; Rio Grande do Sul, fifty-five; Minas Gerais, seventy-two; Goiás, thirty-two and Mato Grosso, thirty.
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