Stipulating the free flow of goods within Chinese territory, article 170 provides that no transit duty of any Jtharacter is to be imposed with the exception of dues collected from vessels or vehicles for the improvement of waterways or public high ""fne last article of the chapter on finance stipulates that an indepen dont service aboli be created to take ave. of the accounts of all government organs, the idea being to minimize the. chance of msappro-Briation of public funds by removing Bris puctictiar branch of the civil service from the direct idence their superior.
The chapter on national forces says that the Army shall be built on the principle of conscription and that the national forces, being. established} for the. purpose of protecting n0- tional terFtory and resisting foreign Sugression, shall be under the cot tol of the. Central Government.
'Ariile 179 states that the supreme command held by the President over the land, naval, and. alr forces shall in' times "of peace be. exercised through the Ministry concerned. Ta the event of war a commander-in-Chief shall be appointed with the approval of the National Congress the People's Committee, but. this post shall be abolished. as oon the war terminates.
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