or outsiders, provided that the person chosen was a voter and
twenty-five years of age. When the Parliament met, which it did on the
first day of January, and adjourned on the first of March, sine die, the
Ministers presented their reports of their work for the previous two
years, and if the Parliament approved them, they continued in office;
but if the Parliament by a majority vote disapproved of any of them,
then the Minister resigned and the Parliament appointed another person
to take his or her place. The members of Parliament were elected for two
years and to serve without pay, but their expenses were paid by the
Government and the amount necessary was fixed by law and could not be
raised or lowered, only by two-thirds vote of the qualified voters of
the Nation. The country was divided into districts and every district
elected a member for every hundred thousand of population, provided that
every other member from a district should be a female, thus giving both
sexes full representation in the Government. Each district was governed
by a Governor, elected for two years, and a Court of Judges, consisting
of a Chief Justice, a Prosecuting Attorney, an Attorney for the Defense
and twelve Justice Jurors, who tried all felony cases and civil cases
that could not be settled by Arbitration, and who sat also as a Board of
Equalization and as Supervisors.

The law provided that eight Jurors or two-thirds of them (if any were
absent through sickness or any other reasonable cause), in every case
could bring in a verdict of guilty in criminal cases or for the
Complainant or Defendant in civil cases, and if eight did not find the
Defendant guilty, the case was dismissed-but if guilty the Defendant had
only to say "I appeal," and a copy of the evidence was sent immediately
to the Supreme Court, composed of Judges, elected by the people, one
from each district, to serve for five years.