The following day a decree was passed embodying the above proposition and others:
- Permission is granted to the actual president of the republic to take command in person of the forces which the government may place under his command, to resist the foreign enemy.
- The vice presidency of the republic, established by the law of 21st December last, is suppressed.
- The place of the provisional president shall be filled by a substitute, named by congress according to the terms of the law just cited.
- If in this election the vote of the deputations should be tied, in place of determining the choice by lot, congress shall decide, voting by person.
- The functions of the substitute shall cease when the provisional president shall return to the exercise of power.
- On the 15th day of May next the legislatures of the states shall proceed to the election of a president of the republic, according to the form prescribed by the constitution of 1824, and with no other difference save voting for one individual only.
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