making before a court of record, within one year from the date of the exchange of
ratifications of this convention, a declaration of their decision to preserve such
citizenship; in default of which declaration they shall be held to have renounced it, and
to have accepted citizenship in the United States; for children under eighteen years
the said declaration may be made by their parents or guardians. Such election of
Danish citizenship shall however not, after the elapse of the said term of one year, be
a bar to their renunciation of their preserved Danish citizenship and their election of
citizenship in the United States and admission to the nationality thereof on the same
terms as may be provided according to the laws of the United State, for other
inhabitants of the islands.

 The civil rights and the political status of the inhabitants of the islands shall be
 determined by the Congress, subject to the stipulations contained in the present
 convention.

 Danish citizens not residing in the islands but owning property therein at the
 time of the cession, shall retain their rights of property, including the right to sell or
 dispose of such property, being placed in this regard on the same basis as the Danish
 citizens residing in the islands and remaining therein or removing therefrom, to whom
 the firs paragraph of this article relates.



 Article 7.

 Danish subjects residing in the Islands shall be subject in matters civil as well
as criminal to the jurisdiction of the courts of the Islands, pursuant to the ordinary laws
governing the same, and they shall have the right to appear before such courts, and to
pursue the same course therein as citizens of the country to which the courts belong.

 Article 8.

 Judicial proceedings pending at the time of the formal delivery in the islands
ceded shall be determined according to the following rules:

 1) Judgments rendered either in civil suits between private individuals, or in
 criminal matters, before the date mentioned, and with respect to which there
 is no recourse or right to review under Danish law, shall be deemed to be
 final, and shall be executed in due form and without any renewed trial
 whatsoever, by the competent authority in the territories within which such
 judgments are to be carried out.

 If in a criminal case a mode of punishment has been applied which,
 according to new rules, is no longer applicable on the islands ceded after
 delivery, the nearest corresponding punishment in the new rules shall be
 applied.