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In the offices of the state must only be employed those Norwegian citizens who profess the Evangelical-Lutheran religion, have sworn obedience to the Constitution and the King, speak the language of the country, and

a) either are born in the Kingdom of parents who at that time were subjects of the Kingdom; or

b) are born in foreign countries of Norwegian parents who were not at that time subjects of an other state;

c) or who have at present a steady residence in the Kingdom and have not refused to make the oath to maintain the independence of Norway;

d) or who live in the Kingdom for ten years;

e) or who are naturalized by the National Assembly.

Foreigners, however, may be appointed teachers at the University and the high schools, physicians and consuls on foreign places.

Nobody must be appointed chief magistrate before he is thirty years old, or magistrate, inferior judge and collector of the taxes before he is twenty-five years old.