50. The Field-Cornets shall be chosen by and out of the burghers of their wards.
51. A Field-Commandant shall be chosen for each district, by and out of the burghers of the same.
52. The assembled Field-Commandants and Field-Cornets who are united on a commando shall choose from amongst themselves, in case of war, their own Commandant-General, which General must then receive his instructions from the President.
53. The assembled Field-Commandants and Field-Cornets have the right, during the course of the war, when they have just cause for so doing, to discharge the Commandant-General who had been chosen by them, and to appoint another, they being bound in that case to give notice to the President thereof, who on receipt of such announcement, and on finding the assigned reasons well founded, fixes the day on which a new election shall take place.
54. After the war there exists no longer any Commandant-General as such.
55. The Field-Cornets must be resident in their own wards and possess property therein.
56. The Field-Commandants must be resident in their own districts, possess fixed property to the amount of £200, and have lived one year in the country.
Chapter IX.—Miscellaneous Subjects.
57. The Roman-Dutch law shall be the principal law of this State, where no other law has been made by the Volksraad.