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APPENDIX B

areas, provided no boundary question shall exist between them.

Art. 46. The States having pending boundary questions shall arrange or settle them as provided by this Constitution.

Art. 47. The State of Nayarit shall have the territorial area and boundaries at present comprising the Territory of Tepic.

Art. 48. The islands in both oceans embraced within the national territory shall depend directly on the Federal Government, excepting those over which the States have up to the present time exercised jurisdiction.

Title III

CHAPTER I

Of the Division of Powers

Art. 49. The supreme power of the Federation is divided for its exercise into legislative, executive and judicial.

Two or more of these powers shall never be united in one person or corporation, nor shall the legislative power be vested in one individual except in the case of extraordinary powers granted to the Executives, in accordance with the provisions of Article 29.