2. It is to audit the annual accounts of the interest and extinction of the State debts, after they have been previously revised by the upper chamber of accounts, and to cause them to be presented to us for our approval by the United Diet, or the Committee thereof, on its next assembly, according to the 14th Article of the Ordinance of January 17th, 1820.
3. It is authorized to undertake extraordinary revisions of the fund for the extinction of the State debts and the control of the State papers, on the occasion of its meeting.
The deputation for the affairs of the State debt will regularly meet once a year, and besides this, as often as occasion demands; the summons to be made by the Minister of the Interior.
6. The deputation is to elect a President at each meeting, who must be presented to the Minister of the Interior.
The presence of at least five members will be requisite to constitute a valid act of the deputation.
Given under our hand, etc.,
FREDERICK WILLIAM.
Berlin, Feb. 3, 1847.