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10. The remaining revenues of the Kingdom shall be expended for the sustenance of the Lord Protector.
11. If the Lord Protector ceases to be among the living, the right to elect another shall belong to the greater part of his Councilors.
12. After the death of the Lord General Cromwell, no one of the following Lords Protector shall at the same time be the Commander-in-Chief of the army.
13. No one shall be elected whose parent was Protector.
14. The right of war and peace shall be situated in the hand of the Protector; however, as regards the means of waging war, namely, taxes pertaining to war, he shall not impose them on the people without the consent of Parliament.
15. The Protector shall have a negative voice in the Senate.
16. Any Parliament shall have the power to remove seven Senators from the Senate and to substitute seven others.
17. All acts which have hitherto emanated under the name of the Keepers of the Liberty of England shall henceforth be published under the name of the Protector.
18. Whoever dares to speak against the present Regime shall be held guilty of Treason and Lèse-majesté.
19. All goods reduced to the treasury and those to be reduced, and goods confiscated, shall yield to the sustenance of the Lord Protector.
20. All acts and decrees of past Parliaments concerning the alienation of fiefs and domains shall remain in their force, and the Possessor shall possess them quietly.
21. The right to confer titles of honor and dignity shall belong to the Lord Protector.
22. The Lord Protector shall have the power to order and arrange all business of the Nations during the intermediate time between the assemblies of Parliaments, with the aid of his Councilors.