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His Excellency Mr. Ramstedt, Prime Minister, stated:
»According to information received from Norway the Norwegian Storthing has, on the 7th inst. passed the following resolutions:
’The members of the Cabinet having resigned their office and the King having declared himself unable to form a new government; and the Constitutional Sovereign thereby having resigned His powers, the Storthing authorises the members of the Council who resigned this day, to assume until further notice, as the Norwegian Government, the authority granted to the King according to the Constitution of the Norwegian Kingdom and its valid law — with the changes that become neccessary through the fact that the Union with Sweden under one King is dissolved, in consequence of the King having ceased to Act as King of Norway.’
Through this revolutionary measure, the Storthing has not only without the King’s assistance, but also without referring to Sweden arbitrarily passed a resolution respecting the dissolution of a Union which has existed on the grounds of legal mutual agreements between the two countries and cannot without mutual consent be broken.
The Storthing, having thus by this resolution, violated Sweden’s prerogative it becomes undeniably necessary that an extra session of the Diet be immediately summoned in order to debate as to what measures should be taken on Sweden’s side, with reference to what has thus occurred. Herewith I appeal that Your Majesty will resolve on the summoning of the Diet, at the same time Your Majesty intimates disacknowledgement of the government, proclaimed by the Storthing».
In this address the rest of the members proclaimed themselves unanimous;
And His Majesty the King consented to this, and in accordance with the Prime Minister’s recommendation was graciously pleased to decree, by open letter and edict, the import of which are contained in the appendage to this protocol, that the members of both Chambers of the Diet be summoned to an extra session in Stockholm on Tuesday June 20th.
27.
Address from the King to the President of the Storthing.
To the President of the Storthing!