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73. The Storthing shall elect from among its members one
fourth part, which constitutes the Lagthing; the remaining three
fourths form the Odelsthing. The election shall take place at the
first ordinary Storthing that meets after a new election, and thereafter
the Lagthing shall remain unchanged during all Storthings that
meet after the same election, except in so far as any vacancy
which may occur among its members has to be filled by special
election.
Each Thing shall hold its meetings separately, and elect its own
President and Secretary. Neither of the Things shall hold meetings
unless two-thirds of its members are present.
74. As soon as the Storthing is constituted the King, or the
person he appoints for the purpose, shall open its proceedings with
a speech, in which he shall inform it of the condition of the
kingdom and the subjects to which he particularly desires to call the
attention of the Storthing. No deliberation may take place in the
presence of the King.
When the proceedings of the Storthing are opened, the
Ministers of State and the Councillors of State have the right to attend
in the Storthing as well as in both its divisions, and, like its
members, but without giving a vote, to take part in the current
proceedings, in so far as these are conducted with open doors, but in
such matters as are discussed with closed doors, only in so far as the
Thing in question may grant permission.
75. To the Storthing shall belong the powers and duties
following:
a) To enact and to repeal laws; to impose taxes, duties, customs,
and other public burdens, which, however, do not remain in force
longer than till the 1st of April of the year in which the next
ordinary Storthing meets, unless they are expressly renewed by the
Storthing then sitting;
b) To open loans on the credit of the kingdom;
c) To control the finances of the kingdom;
d) To vote the sums of money necessary to meet the
expenditure of the State;
e) To decide how much shall he paid yearly to the King for
his Royal household, and to determine the appanage of the Royal
family, which may not, however, consist of real property;
f) To have laid before it the minutes of the Norwegian
Government and all public reports and documents (matters of strictly
military command excepted), as well as certified copies or extracts of the
minutes kept by the Norwegian Minister of State and the two
Norwegian Councillors of State in attendance upon the King in Sweden,
or the public documents that have been there produced;
g) To have communicated to them the alliances and treaties that
the King on behalf of the State has entered into with foreign powers,
with the exception of secret articles, which, however, must not be at
variance with the public ones;
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