18.


 The franchise or right of voting is vested in every man of unblemished
character, who has the right of nativity or has resided in the Danish West India Islands
for five years, who has attained the age of 25 years, who has not been legally deprived
of the management of his property, and who either owns a property in the municipality
that is calculated likely to yield a yearly rent of at least 300 francs in St. Croix and
St. Jan, and of at least 700 francs in St. Thomas, or in the preceding year has had a
clear annual income of 1500 Frcs. He must, moreover, have resided at least 2 years in
the municipality and 6 months within the elective district in which he sojourns at the
time the election takes place, and his name must be on the list of persons entitled to
vote. A person having residence in several elective districts can determine in which of
them he will exercise his right of voting.

 No person can be considered of an unblemished character who by judgment of
the court has been found guilty of an act ignominious in the public opinion.

 Within 10 years from the entering into operation of this law the provisions
 concerning franchise contained in this are to be revised.


 19.

 Every person who has the right of nativity and who besides possesses the
 qualifications on which the right of voting is based is eligible as a member.

 During the first 10 years after the entering into operation of this law the absence
 of the right of nativity, however, will not cause any person, who at the time of its
 entering into operation was eligible, to forfeit his eligibility.

 It is not, however, necessary that he shall have resided permanently in the
 elective district, or that his name shall be on the list of persons entitled to vote.

 The Governor, as well as the Government's Secretaries, as also the Officials
 and Assistants in the Secretary's the Bookkeeper's and Treasurer's Offices, are not
 eligible.
 20.

 The elections in every district are to be under the superintendence of a Board of
 Directors, consisting of the Judge in the Jurisdiction as chairman and of two
 inhabitants of the municipality, the one appointed by the Superior Authority, and the
 other by the respective Colonial Council. In case of no one being appointed by the
 Colonial Council, or any one appointed being prevented from officiating at the