A special telegram to the China Times," gives the following summary of important points in the amended law governing the clection of the President:
(1) A male citizen of 40 or above, having lived in this oountry twenty years, is qualified to be (2) The term of office is years, but a President is eligible for reelection.
(3) At the time of election, the President in office has the right to recommend three persons, as successors; he writes with his own hand the names of three persons on a golden paper with the design of the "excellent corn," affixes his seal on it, pute it secretly in a golden cabinet, and places the cabinet in a stone room in the President's Palace. The key of che cabinet is kept by the President, but the keys of the stone-room are kept by the President, the Speaker of the Tsanchengyuan, and the Secretary of State.
(4) The Election Commission be composed of fifty membere from each of the Two Houses, the voting paper to bear the names of both the nominee and the voter, and the one getting the greatest number of votes to be elected. The election is Tf the election should take piaes at a time when the Lifaynan is not in session, then fifty members who happen to be in Peking and whose names are foremost shall serve the purpose, (5) The Election Commission shall be assembled by an order of the President, and formed three days prior to the date fixed in that order. The election hall shall be at the Tsanchengyuan, whose Speaker shall be Chairman of the Election.
The President in office may also be nominated.
(7) Three-fourths of the members present shall form a quorum, and
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