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Constitution of the Year III
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labor or of rural property valued at one hundred days of labor

And in the country that of being proprietor or usufructuary of a property valued at an income equal to the local value of one hundred and fifty days of labor, or that of being the farmer or métayer of properties appraised at the value of two hundred days of labor.

With respect to those who shall be at the same time proprietors or usufructuaries for one part and occupants, farmers, or métayers for the other, their properties by these different titles shall be cumulated to the amount necessary to establish their eligibility.

36. The electoral assembly of each department meets on 20 Germinal of each year and concludes, in a single session of ten days at most and without power to adjourn, all the elections which are to occur; after that it is dissolved ipso facto.

37. The electoral assemblies cannot busy themselves with any matter foreign to the elections with which they are charged; they cannot send or receive any address, any petition, or any deputation.

38. The electoral assemblies cannot correspond among themselves.

39. No citizen, having been a member of an electoral assembly, can take the title of elector or meet in that capacity with those who have been with him members of that same assembly.

Infraction of the present article is an attempt against the general security.

40. Articles 18, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 29, 30, 31 and 32 of the preceding title, upon the primary assemblies, are common to the electoral assemblies.

41. The electoral assemblies elect, according as there is occasion:

The members of the legislative body; to wit, the members of the Council of Ancients, then the members of the Council of the Five Hundred;

The members of the tribunal of cassation;

The high jurors;

The department administrators;

The president, public accuser, and recorder of the criminal tribunal;