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Article 75 It devolves upon the Storting: a) to enact and repeal laws; to impose taxes, duties, customs and other public charges, which shall not, however, remain operative beyond 31 December of the succeeding year, unless they are expressly renewed by a new Storting; b) to raise loans in the name of the realm; � c) to supervise the monetary system of the realm; � d) to appropriate the moneys necessary to meet government expenditure; � e) to decide how much shall be paid annually to the King for the Royal Household, and to � determine the Royal Family's appanage, which may not, however, consist of real property; f) to have submitted to it the records of the Council of State, and all public reports and documents; g) to have communicated to it the treaties which the King, on behalf of the State, has concluded with foreign powers; h) to have the right to require anyone, the King and the Royal Family excepted, to appear before it on matters of State; the exception does not, however, apply to the Royal Princes and Princesses if they hold any public office; i) to review the provisional lists of salaries and pensions and to make therein such � alterations as it deems necessary; � k) to appoint five auditors, who shall annually examine the State Accounts and publish extracts of the same in print, for which purpose the Accounts shall be submitted to the auditors within six months of the end of the year for which the appropriations of the Storting have been made, and to adopt provisions concerning the procedure for authorising the accounts of government accounting officials; l) to appoint a person, not a Member of the Storting, in a manner prescribed by law, to supervise the public administration and all who work in its service, to assure that no injustice is done against the individual citizen; m) to naturalise aliens.