hundred thousand there are at least three municipal administrations.
In these communes the division of the municipalities is made in such a manner that the population of the district of each does not exceed fifty thousand persons and is not less than thirty thousand.
The municipality of each district is composed of seven members.
184. There is, in the communes which are divided into several municipalities, a central bureau for the subjects considered indivisible by the legislative body.
This bureau is composed of three members appointed by the department administration and confirmed by the executive power.
185. The members of every municipal administration are appointed for two years and renewed each year by half or the part nearest a half and by the larger and the smaller fraction alternately.
186. The department administrators and the members of the municipal administrations can be re-elected once without an interval.
187. Any citizen who has been elected department administrator or member of a municipal administration twice in succession and who has discharged the duties in virtue of both elections cannot be elected again until after an interval of two years.
188. In case a department or municipal administration should lose one or several of its members by death, resignation, or otherwise, the remaining administrators in filling the places can add to themselves temporary administrators who act in that capacity until the following elections.
189. The department and municipal administrators cannot alter the acts of the legislative body, nor those of the Executive Directory, nor suspend the execution of them.
They cannot meddle with matters belonging to the judicial body.
190. The administrators are particularly charged with the apportionment of the direct taxes and with surveillance over the monies accruing from the public revenues in their territory.
