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In such matters the opinion of the Norwegian Government ought
also to be obtained, unless the business requires to be disposed of in
such haste that time will not allow of it. As often as the King in
the Norwegian Council of State, whenever and wherever it is
assembled, transacts business which concerns both kingdoms, three members
of the Swedish Council of State shall also have seats and votes.
6. If the King dies, and the Heir to the Throne is still under
age, the Norwegian and Swedish Councils of State shall at once
assemble in order jointly to summon a meeting of the Storthing in
Norway and of the Riksdag in Sweden.
7. Until the representatives of both kingdoms are assembled and
have taken measures for the conduct of the government during the
King’s minority, a Council of State, consisting of an equal number
of Norwegian and Swedish members, shall conduct the government
of the kingdoms under the name of the interim Government of
Norway and Sweden, with due regard to the different constitutions of
the two kingdoms.
This joint Council of State shall consist of ten members from
each kingdom, namely: from Norway, the Norwegian Minister and
the two Councillors of State in attendance upon the King at
Stockholm, together with seven Councillors of State, whether ordinary or
specially appointed, who, in the event of a vacancy of the Throne,
or during the King s minority, shall be elected by the Government
in Norway from among its own members, in whose place at least
three Councillors of State in Norway shall be nominated; and from
Sweden, the two Ministers and eight Councillors of State.
With regard to the preliminary preparation and investigation of
Norwegian as well as Swedish affairs, the regulations in force in each
of the kingdoms shall be observed.
At the meetings of the interim Government the Norwegian
business shall be introduced by the Norwegian Minister of State, and
entered upon the minutes and dispatched in the Norwegian language,
and the Swedish business shall be introduced by the member of the
Swedish Ministry to whose department they belong, and entered upon
the minutes and dispatched in the Swedish language.
Business that concerns both kingdoms, that does not by its
nature belong to the affairs of any special department, shall be
introduced by the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, and shall be
dispatched to each of the kingdoms in their respective languages, to
Norway by its Minister of State, and to Sweden by the aforesaid
Minister.
Diplomatic business shall also be introduced by the Minister of
State for Foreign Affairs, and be entered in separate minutes.
The business shall be disposed of by a majority of votes, and,
when the votes are equal, the vote of the president shall decide the
question.
All resolutions that are to be dispatched shall be signed by each
and all of the members.
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