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WE FREDERIK the Seventh, by the grace of God, King of Denmark, of the Vandals and
Goths, Duke of Staswak, Holstein, Stormarn, and Ditmarsh, Lauenburg and
Oldenburg,

MAKE KNOWN: the Diet has resolved upon, and
 We have by our sanction confirmed the following:
 LAW:
 I.

 1.

 A Colonial Council is to be instituted for the Danish Westindia Possessions,
which, in the manner hereafter described, shall be invested with deliberative co-
operation in the exercise of the legislative power.

 On the Proposal of the Colonial Council, the King has the power to direct, for all
 or some cases, that the Colonial Council be divided into two Councils, one for
 St. Croix, and one for St. Thomas and St. Johns, and to decree such regulations as
 may result in this alteration of the present Law.

 2.

 The King, after having received the opinion of the Colonial Council, and on the
 constitutional responsibility of the Minister concerned, enacts Ordinances regarding:

 1. the extention of the existing laws in the
 Kingdom of Denmark to the Danish Westindia
 Islands.
 2. the municipal affairs of the Islands, among
 which are comprehended those relating to
 schools, pauper establishments, militia, public
 roads, and public security with regard to
 hedges, and enclosures, as also also
 connected with labour, trade, servitude and
 vagrancy; the control of the sanitary and fire
 establishments, and the executive police in
 general.

 The Ordinances referred to under 1, may contain deviations from the existing
 laws of the Mother Country, in as far as the peculiar relations of the Islands may
 particularly call forth such, but in no wise as regards the principles and spirit of the
 laws.