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Article XI.—The President of each House shall continue to assume the direction of the business of the House, during the interval that the Diet is not in session.

Article XII.—The President shall be entitled to attend and take part in the debates of both the Standing and of the Special Committees, but he shall have no vote therein.

Article XIII.—In each House, in the event of the disability of the President, he shall be represented in his functions by the Vice-President.

Article XIV.—In each House, in the event of the disability of both the President and of the Vice-President at the same time, a temporary President shall be elected to exercise the functions of President.

Article XV.—The President and the Vice-President of each House, shall, upon the expiration of their term of office, continue to exercise their functions, until their successors have been nominated by the Emperor.

Article XVI.—In each House there shall be appointed a Chief Secretary and several Secretaries.

The Chief Secretary shall be of the Chokunin rank, and the Secretaries of the Sonin rank.

Article XVII.—The Chief Secretary shall, under the direction of the President, supervise the business of the Secretaries and append his signature to official documents.

The Secretaries shall compile the records of debates, make drafts of other documents and manage business generally.

Required functionaries other than Secretaries shall be appointed by the Chief-Secretary.

Article XVIII.—The expenses of both Houses shall be defrayed out of the National Treasury.

Article XIX.—The Presidents of the respective Houses shall receive each an annual allowance of four thousand yen and the Vice-Presidents, that of two thousand yen each; while such Members of the House of Peers as have been elected thereto, and such as have been nominated thereto by the Emperor, and the Members of the House of Representatives, shall each receive an annual allowance of