Unified Republic Defined: Sover-eighty Vested in the People Peking, Oct. 10
The Constitution which is being promulgated this morning has taken several years to complete and contains nothing startling but is much inf accordance with the Constitutions of other coun" tries.
It consists of 13 Sections or chapters, in which there are 141
The first Section states that the form of Government shall be a unified Republic, the 2nd Section that the sovereignty shall be vested in the people, and the 3rd Section that China's territory consists of all Chinese possessions.
Section 4 (Articles 4 to 21) deals with the rights, duties and privileges of citizens: Sections 5 (Articles 22 to 38) with national power s over legislation, lands, mines, education, taxes, ete: Section 6 (Articles 39 to 70) with the composition. powers, mode of: election, ete, of Parliament: Section 7 (Articles 71 to 91) with tha powers and duties of the President: Section 8 (Articles 92 to 96) with the Cabinet: Section 9 (Articles 97 to 102) with the judi-clary: Section 10 (Articles 108 to 108) with the law: Section 11 '(Articles 109 to 123) with the Budget: Section 12 (Articles 124 to 135) with local government: and Section 13 (Articles 136 fo 141) with Constitutional amendments.—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.