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c) He shall declare the existence of a state of war, shall declare war with the previous consent of Parliament, and shall lay before Parliament for approval peace treaties which have been concluded;
d) He shall convoke, provogue and dissolve Parliament (§ 28—31) and shall proclaim its Sessions at an end;
e) He shall have the right to return with comment any law enacted by Parliament (§ 47). He shall sign all laws enacted by Parliament (§ 51), all laws enacted by the Diet of Carpathenian Ruthenia (§ 3) and the ordinances of the Committee of Twenty-Four (§ 54);
f) He shall report verbally or in writing to the National Assembly on the state of the Republic, and shall recommend for consideration measures which he deems necessary and useful;
g) He shall appoint and dismiss Cabinet ministers and define their number;
h) He shall nominate University Professors, judges, all State Officials and army officers of the sixth class upward;
i) He shall grant donations and pensions in special cases on the recommendation of the Government;
j) He shall be commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the Republic;
k) He shall grant pardon as per § 103.

2. All governmental and executive power, in so far as it does not or shall not explicitly appertain to the President according to the Constitutional Charter and the laws adopted after November 15th 1918, shall be reserved to the Government (§ 70).

III.

§ 65.

The President of the Republic shall take an oath before the National Assembly (§ 38) on his honour and conscience to look to the welfare of the Republic and its people, and to abide by the Constitution and laws.

§ 66.

The President of the Republic shall not be answerable at law in the exercise of his functions. The Government shall be answerable for all the President’s official utterances.

§ 67.

1. He may be prosecuted only for high treason before the Senate upon an indictment found against him by the Chamber of Deputies (§ 34).

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