Chapter I

Article 37.
The Chamber of Deputies shall be composed of representatives
elected directly by the people of the Provinces, for which
purpose each one shall be considered as a single electoral
district, and by a simple plurality of votes in the ratio of
one for each 20,000 inhabitants, or for a fraction not less
than 10,000.

Article 38.
The deputies for the first Legislature shall be nominated in
the following proportion: for the Province of Buenos-Aires,
twelve; for that of Córdoba, six; for Catamarca, three;
Corrientes, four; Entre-Rios, two; Jujui, two; Mendoza, three;
Rioja, two; Salta, three; Santiago, four; San Juan, two;
Santa-Fé, two; San Luis, two; and for that of Tucumán, three.

Article 39.
For the second Legislature a general census shall be taken,
and the number of Deputies be regulated by it; thereafter,
this census shall be decennial.

Article 40.
No person shall be a Deputy who shall not have attained the
age of twenty-five years, have been four years in the exercise
of citizenship, and be a native of the Province which elects
him, or a resident of it for the two years immediately
preceding.

Article 41.
For the first election, the provincial Legislatures shall
regulate the method for a direct election of the National
Deputies. Congress shall pass a general law for the future.

Article 42.
The Deputies shall hold their place for four years, and are
re-eligible; but the House shall be renewed each biennial, by
halves; for which purpose those elected to the first
Legislature, as soon as the session opens, shall decide by lot
who shall leave at the end of the first period.

Article 43.
In case of vacancy, the Government of the Province or of the
capital, shall call an election for a new member.

Article 44.
The origination of the tax-laws and those for the recruiting
of troops, belongs exclusively to the House of Deputies.

Article 45.
It has the sole right of impeaching before the Senate, the
President, Vice-President, their Ministers, and the members of
the Supreme Court and other inferior Tribunals of the Nation,
in suits which may be undertaken against them for the improper
discharge of, or deficiency in, the exercise of their
functions; or for common crimes, after having heard them, and
declared by a vote of two thirds of the members present, that
there is cause for proceeding against them.