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The joint Council of State (the interim Government) shall have
its seat in Stockholm.
The Norwegian Minister of State [in attendance upon the King
at Stockholm], and the Swedish Minister of Justice, shall, at the
first meeting of the two Councils of State, cast lots as to which of
them shall take the chair.
According to the order first settled by this casting of lots, the
chairman shall afterwards be changed every eighth day, so that, each
of the Ministers of State, the one after the other, and only for a
week at a time, may take the chair.
On all occasions when, according to the Constitutions of Norway
and Sweden, the government of each kingdom is conducted by the
Council of State, the joint Council of State of the two kingdoms shall
meet in equal numbers and on the basis hereinbefore mentioned.
8. The election of guardians, who shall carry on the
government for the King during his minority, shall take place according to
the same regulations and in the same manner as already prescribed
in § 3 for the election of a successor to the Throne.
9. The persons who in the above case are conducting the
government shall take the following oath:
«I promise and swear to carry on the government in accordance
with the Constitution and the laws, so truly help me God and His
Holy Word!»
The Norwegians shall take the oath before the Storthing of
Norway; the Swedes before the Estates of the kingdom of Sweden.
If the Storthing or the Riksdag is not sitting at the time, the
oath shall be delivered in writing to the Council of State, and be
repeated afterwards to the next Storthing or Riksdag.
10. The conduct of the King’s education during his minority
shall be determined in the manner prescribed in § 8.
It shall be an invariable rule that the King, during his minority,
be given sufficient instruction in the Norwegian language.
11. If the Royal family in the male line becomes extinct, and
no successor to the Throne has been elected, then shall a new Royal
house be chosen in the manner prescribed in § 3.
12. As the provisions contained in this Rigsakt [Act of Union]
are partly repetitions of the Constitution of Norway and partly
additions thereto on the basis of the authority given for that purpose to
this Storthing in the Constitution, they shall, so far as Norway is
concerned, have and retain the same power as the Constitution of
that kingdom, and cannot be altered except in the manner prescribed
in § 112 of the same.
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