16.  In case of insolvency, or if any sentence of imprisonment is passed against the President, the Volksraad shall be able to dismiss him at once.

17. (a) The Volksraad shall have the right to try the President and public officials for treason, bribery and other high crimes.

(b) The President shall not be condemned without the agreement of three to one of the members present.

(c) He shall not be condemned without the full Raad being present, or at least without due notice being given, to give all the members opportunity to be present.

(d) If a quorum is summoned, and is unanimously of opinion that the President is guilty of one of the above-mentioned crimes, they shall have the power to suspend him, and to make provisional arrangements to fulfill the duties of his office.  But in that case they shall be obliged to call the whole Raad together to judge him.

(e) The members of the Volksraad shall take their oath at the commencement of said examination.

(f) In case the President should come to die, or should resign his post, or be discharged, or become unfit for the discharge of his office, the Volksraad shall be empowered to appoint one or more persons to act in his place until such unfitness cease or another President is chosen.

(g) The sentence of the Volksraad in such cases shall have no further effect than discharge from their office, and the declaration of unfitness ever to hold any post under the Government.  But the persons so sentenced shall none the less be liable to be judged according to the law.

18.  The Volksraad reserves the right to examine the election lists of members for the Volksraad itself, and to declare if the members have been duly and legally elected or not.

19.  The Volksraad shall have regular minutes of its transactions kept, and from time to time publish the same, such articles excepted as ought in their judgment to be kept back.

20.  The agreement or disapproval of the various members on any question put to the vote must, on the request of one-fifth of members present, be inscribed in the minutes.

21.  The public shall be admitted to attend the consultations of the Volksraad and to take notice of the transactions, except in special cases where secrecy is necessary.

22.  The Volksraad shall make no laws preventing free assembly of the inhabitants, to memorialize the Government, to obtain assistance in difficulties, or to get an alteration in some laws.

23.  The furtherance of religion and education is a subject of care for the Volksraad.

24.  The Dutch Reformed Church shall be assisted and supported by the Volksraad.

25.  The Volksraad shall have the power to pass a burgher or commando law for the protection and safety of this land.

26.  After this Constitution shall have been fixedly determined, no alteration may be made in the same without the agreement of three-fifths of the Volksraad, and before such change may be made, a majority of three-fifths of the votes shall be necessary for the same in two successive yearly sessions.