22.


 When an elected member retires, writs for new election must immediately be
 issued, and the member elected will then have to serve for the same period as the
 retiring member would have had a seat in the Council.

 III.
 111.

 23.

 The Governor convokes the Colonial Council each year to an ordinary session
 of 4 weeks. He may also, under particular circumstances, convene extraordinary
 meetings, the duration whereof he will have to fix.

 He can also adjourn the meetings of the Council for a definite period, however
 not exceeding three months, and he has the power, if necessary, to dissolve the
 Council.

 In the latter case, a new Assembly is to be elected and convoked within one
 year from the dissolution of the former.

 24.

 The Governor opens and closes the proceedings of the Council. He can, either
 personally, or when he is prevented, or for any particular case, by a deputy attend the
 meetings of the Council, and takes the word as often as he or his deputy may think it
 requisite. The Governor can likewise call persons to attend the proceedings, in order
 to afford such elucidations and explanations as the matter in hand may occasion.

 All communications between the King's Government, and the Council, pass
 exclusively through the Governor.

 25.

 The Colonial Council elects among its own members a Chairman, Vice-
Chairman, and a Secretary.

 The Council decides the validity of the election of its members. Each member
takes the oath of allegiance according to a forn prescribed by the King.

 No resolution can be passed in the Council, unless at least one half of its
members are present and take part in the proceedings.

 The members at a meeting are at liberty to express themselves in Danish, or in
English; the Protocol of the proceedings is to be kept in both these languages; but the
written reports of the Council must be in the Danish language.