REPUBLICAN SPAIN
THE NEW CONSTITUTION. LATEST GOVERNMENT DECREE. SEIZURE OF PROPERTIES. (United Press Association By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received August 20, 8.5 a.m. MADRID, Aug. 19.
The Spanish Constitution as finally drafted vests the nation’s supreme powers in a single chamber of Parliament, with a President elected by adult suffrage, and dismissable by a referendum.
The President will not be empowered to sign any declaration of war except in cases foreseen by the League of Nations’ conventions, and then only after the exhaustion of every method of arbitration.
There will be no State religion, but complete freedom for every creed.
The latest Government decree ordering the seizure by the State of all properties given by aristocrats as loans to past Kings has led to remarkable cases. As an instance, the ancestors of the Marquise Frechilla five centuries ago lent the King 84 ducats, or £44, receiving in exchange several thousand acres of land, which his descendants have occupied and cultivated. The decree permits the State to claim all the earnings from the land for the past 500 years above £4O.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 222, 20 August 1931, Page 7
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