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In the cases that the Odelsthing causes to he laid before the
Rigsret, no other pardon than exemption from capital punishment
can be granted.
21. The King, with the advice of his Norwegian Council of
State, shall choose and appoint all civil, ecclesiastical, and military
officials. Such officials shall swear, or if by law exempted from
taking the oath, solemnly affirm obedience and allegiance to the
Constitution and the King.
The Royal Princes may not fill civil offices.
22. The Ministers of State and the other members of the
Council of State, together with the departmental officials, ambassadors
and consuls, civil and ecclesiastical persons of supreme authority,
chiefs of regiments and of other military corps, commandants of
forts and commanding officers of men-of-war, can, without any
preceding judicial sentence, he dismissed by the King, after hearing the
opinion of the Council of State on the subject. How far pensions
should be granted to the officials thus dismissed is determined by
the next Storthing. In the meantime they receive two-thirds of
their previous pay.
Other officials can only be suspended by the King and shall
then at once he prosecuted before the tribunals, but they may not
be dismissed unless judgment han been pronounced against them,
nor may they be removed against their will.
23. The King can confer orders on any one he pleases as a
reward for distinguished services, which must be publicly notified,
but he can confer no other rank or title except such as each office
carries with it. The order exempts no one from the common
duties and burdens of the citizens, nor does it carry with it
preferential admission to any office of the State. Officials that
retire with the King’s favour retain the title and rank of the office
they filled.
No personal or mixed hereditary privileges may henceforth be
granted to any one.
24. The King may choose and dismiss at his own pleasure his
Royal household and Court attendants.
25. The King is Commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy of the
kingdom. These forces may not be increased or reduced without
the sanction of the Storthing. They may not be transferred to the
service of foreign powers, and no soldiers of foreign powers, except
auxiliary troops against hostile attack, may be brought into the
kingdom without the sanction of the Storthing.
In time of peace no other than Norwegian troops may be
stationed in Norway, and no Norwegian troops may be stationed in
Sweden. The King may, however, have in Sweden a Norwegian
guard of volunteers, and can for a short time, at most six weeks in
the year, assemble the nearest troops of the military power of both
the kingdoms for manoeuvres within the borders of either kingdom;
but in no case may more than 3 000 soldiers of all arms, taken
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