§. 50.
Voting members are only those Norwegian Citizens who have filled their 25th year, have been settled in the Kingdom for five years and who either
a) are or have been employed in any public office;
b) possess in the country, or have taken a lease of, any matriculated ground for more than five years;
c) are citizens of towns, or possess in a town or port a house or piece of ground amounting at least to the value of three hundred Rigsbank-Dollars Silver-Value.
§. 51.
Within six months from the sanction of this Constitution a register of all the voting members shall be drawn up in every town by the Magistrate, and in every parish by the Foged (Collector of the taxes) and the parson, wherein shall immediately be inserted all the changes which it might undergo by process of time. Everybody is obliged, before he is entered in the register, publicly to swear obedience to the Constituion before a court of justice.
§. 52.
The right of voting is suspended
a) by an accusation of crimes before a court of justice;
b) by being reduced to a state of minority;
a) by stopping of payment or failure 'till the creditors have received full payment, unless the failure may be
