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jurisdiction of their respective offices. This rule applies to those who have not yet passed three months after they have resigned their respective offices.

Article XV.—Officials in the Imperial Household Department, Officials of Justice, Chiefs and Judges of the Administrative Litigation Court, Auditors, Revenue Officials and Police Officials shall not be eligible.

Article XVI.—Officials other than those enumerated in the preceding article may, so long as their official functions are not thereby interfered with, serve as members, retaining their official position.

Article XVII.—A member of a Fu or Ken Assembly may not combine his office with membership in the House of Representatives.

Article XVIII.—The Chocho (Head of Town) and the Soncho (Head of Village) shall make every year according to the existing state of things on the 1st of October a list of all the qualified persons residing in the Cho and the Son, and shall make out two copies of the electoral list and forward them to the Guncho (Head of Rural District) before the 15th of the month.

The Guncho shall inspect the lists forwarded to him by the Chocho and Soncho and shall return the duplicates to the respective Chocho and Soncho before the 31st of October, after making any correction that it is judged necessary.

The Shicho (Mayor) shall make every year, according to the existing state of things on the 1st of October, a list of all the qualified persons residing in the city and shall make out an electoral list before the 31st of the same month.

In the electoral list shall be entered the name, official rank, profession, class, residence, date of birth of each voter, and the total amount of taxes paid by him and the place in which such taxes are paid.

Article XIX.—When an elector is paying direct national taxes without the limits of the Shi, Cho or Sen in which he is residing, he shall obtain in accordance with the prescribed process a certificate to that effect, and shall forward it before the 5th of October to the Shicho, Chocho, or Soncho of the place where he is residing. In case the said certificate is not forwarded by the prescribed time, the said taxes shall not be counted in the electoral list.

Article XX.—The Guncho, Shicho, Chocho, or Soncho shall, at