46.


 No member can be dismissed from any of the Colonial Councils against his will,
 except in such cases as are mentioned in 34, or those to be stated in the Rules of
 Business; the Colonial Council must, however, with the vote of two thirds of the
 members voting, propose to the Governor the dismissal of the member, and this must
 be approved of by the Governor. The dismissal of a member appointed by the King
 himself can only be decided by a Royal Resolution.

 47.

 Each newly elected member of the Colonial Council, as soon as his election
 has been declared valid, must sign a declaration in writing, binding himself on oath to
 perform with conscientious fidelity all the duties that are incumbent upon him in that
 capacity.

 48.

 The members of the Colonial Council are only bound by their conviction, and
 not by any directions from their electors.

 They cannot, without the consent of the Colonial Council, be called to account
outside the Council for statements made in the Council.

 49.

 The State Treasury shall pay the expenses for the Central Administration and
the Colonial Audit Office in the Mother Country.

 50.

 The State Treasury shall also pay the expenses for the Government, for the
Military Force (Gendarmery Corps), for the School Director for all the islands, for the
congregations of the National Church in the islands, as also for the pensions and
supports of the officials and functionaries of these institutions and their widows and
children.

 51.

 The public buildings, and the real and movable property, including articles of
inventory etc., which serve for the purposes of the Government, the Military Force, and
the congregations of the National Church, are transferred to the ownership of the State
Treasury. In case of a dispute as to what, in accordance herewith, becomes the
property of the State Treasury, the question shall be decided by the king.