The Imperial Council has passed and We by Our Royal Assent confirmed the
following Law:

 I. 1. The supreme authority of legislating for the Danish West India Islands in
all matters exclusively relating to affairs within the boundaries of the Islands, including
their harbours and maritime territory, rests with the legislative power of the kingdom.
This authority may, however, with the exceptions mentioned in 57 and 85 of this
law, and provided no reason be found for issuing a law in the ordinary manner, be
exercised by the king and the respective colonial council conjointly, by ordinances. If
reason be found for issuing a law, the draft of such law shall be laid before the
respective colonial council for its report, unless particular reasons should render an
exception necessary. All the ordinances thus issued shall be laid on the table of the
diet in its approximate session.

 2. In all other matters relating to the colonies, the respective colonial council
 shall, before any law containing provisions specially relating to the West India Islands
 be given, be afforded opportunity of giving its opinion in the matter, unless particular
 reasons render an exception necessary.

 3. The ordinances passed by the colonial council and sanctioned by the king
 are to be promulgated by the Governor. In particularly urgent cases the Governor
 may provisionally sanction those ordinances that have been adopted by the respective
 colonial council, and thereby put them in force until the king's resolution be obtained.

 4. In extraordinary circumstances the Governor has authority to issue
 provisional laws or ordinances. They shall, however, always be laid before the
 respective colonial council at its next meeting, and, in case the matter requires to be
 decided by a law, also before the respective legislative assembly in the mother-
 country during its first sitting, or, in case the colonial council shall not then have
 finished its deliberations on the matter, during the second ordinary session of the
 legislative assembly subsequent to the emanation of the law in question.

 5. The Government of the Danish West India Islands rests, under the superior
 direction of the responsible minister concerned, with the Governor in accordance with
 the instructions given by the king.

 6. The judiciary authority pertains to the courts of justice. The supreme court
 in the kingdom is the supreme tribunal of justice for the Islands. The courts of justice
 are authorized to pass judgements on any question relating to the extent of power
 vested in the administrative authorities. The person who moots such a question is not,
 however, by doing so, exempted from obeying the orders of the authorities.

 II. 7. The king can, either directly or through the respective authorities, grant
 such licenses and bestow such immunities, as are either customary according to
 existing regulations, or, as may in future be warranted by law or ordinance.