during ten years been eligible for the Second Volksraad,
by resolution of the First Volksraad, and according to rules to be fixed
later by law.

ARTICLE 10.--The members of the Second Volksraad are chosen by
all enfranchised burghers who have reached the age of sixteen years.

ARTICLE 11.--No one is allowed to offer himself for election
for both Volksraads, or in more districts or election divisions than one
at the same time.

ARTICLE 12.--The members of the Volksraad may not stand to one
another in the relation of father and son or stepson.

ARTICLE 13.--No military officer or official who enjoys a
fixed yearly or monthly salary, as such, may offer himself for election
as member of either Volksraad.

ARTICLE 14.--No coloured person or bastard, nor persons of
public bad conduct, or those who have had a discreditable criminal
sentence passed on them, nor any non-rehabilitated bankrupts or
insolvents whatsoever shall be eligible as members of either Volksraad.

ARTICLE 15.--To be able to take a seat as member of the First
Volksraad, he who has been lawfully chosen must be thirty years old, and
member of a Protestant church, live in the Republic, have obtained fixed
property there and the burgher right, either before this law came into
operation, or thereafter by birth, or have obtained the franchise for
the First Volksraad according to Sub-section 2 of Article 9.

ARTICLE 16.--To be able to take a seat as member of the Second
Volksraad, he who has been lawfully chosen must be thirty years old,
have been enfranchised burgher during the two immediately preceding
years, be a member of a Protestant church, live in the Republic, and
have fixed property there.

ARTICLE 17.--Each Volksraad chooses its own chairman from among
its own members.

ARTICLE 18.--Each Volksraad appoints, from outside its members,
its own secretary on proposal of the Executive Council.

ARTICLE 19.--Each Volksraad shall have to judge if elections
and the qualifications of its own members are according to law.

ARTICLE 20.--Each Volksraad shall establish its own arrangement
of order, shall regulate the process of its transactions, and the power
of the Chairman shall be defined by itself.

ARTICLE 21.--The President and the members of the Executive
Council shall sit in both Volksraads, with right to take part in the
discussions, but without a vote.

ARTICLE 22.--The quorum of both the First and the Second
Volksraad shall consist of twelve