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money, above all charges and encumbrances in any way
affecting the same, of or to which he has been seized or
entitled either at law or in equity, for at least six
calendar months next before the date of the writ of such
election, or in case a registration of electors shall be estab-
lished next before the last registration of electors, or being
a householder within such district, occupying any house,
warehouse, counting-house, office, shop, or other building
of the clear annual value of 10/. sterling money, and hav-
ing resided therein six calendar months next before such
writ or registration as aforesaid, or holding at the date of
such writ, or at the time of such registration, a license to
depasture lands within the district for which his vote is to
be given from the Government of New South Wales, or
having a leasehold estate in possession, situate within such
district, of the value of 101. sterling money per annum,
held upon a lease which at the date of such writ, or at the
time of registration, has not less than three years to run,
or having a salary of 1001. a year, or being the occupant of
any room or lodging, and paying for his board and lodg-
ing 401. a year, and having occupied the same room or
lodging for six calendar months next before such writ or
registration as aforesaid, shall be entitled to vote at the
election of a member of the Legislative Assembly : Pro-
vided always that no man shall be entitled to vote who
has been attainted or convicted of treason, felony, or other
infamous offence, in any part of her Majesty's dominions,
unless he have received a free or conditional pardon for
such offence, or have undergone the sentence passed on him
for such offence ; and provided also that no man shall be
entitled to vote, unless at the time of such election or re-
gistration of electors (as the case may be) he shall have
paid up all rates' nd taxes which shall have become pay-
able by him as owner or leaseholder in respect of such
estate, or as occupier in respect of such occupancy, or as
the holder of a licence, except such as shall have become
payable during three calendar months next bofore such
election or registration respectively.
XV. In the case of joint ownership of property, no joint
occupier shall be entitled to vote unless his share yield a
sum equal to a qualification.
XVI. defines the electoral districts.
XVII. It shall be lawful for the legislature of the colony
to alter the divisions and extent of the several counties,
districts, cities, towns, boroughs, and hamlets, which shall
be represented in the Legislative Assembly of the colony.
of New South Wales„ ti new and other di-
"tritittiat'tirtiMstme, and to alter the apportionment of re-
presentatives to be chosen by the said counties, districts,
cities, towns, burghs, and hamlets respectively, and make
a new and different apportionment of the number of re-
presentatives to be chosen in and for the colony of New
South IV ales, and in and for the several electoral districts
in the same, and to alter and regulate the appointment of
returning officers in and for the same, and make provision
in such manner as they may deem expedient for the issu-
ing and return of writs for the election of members to
serve in the said Legislative Assembly, and the time and
place of holding such elections : Provided always that it
shall not be lawful to present to the Governor of the colony
of New South Wales, for her Majesty's assent, any bill of
the Legislative Council and Assembly of the said colony by
which number of representatives iu the Legislative
Assembly may be altered, unless the second and third
reading of such bill in the Legislative Council and the Le-
gislative Assembly shall have been passed with the con-
currence of a majority of the members for the time being
of the said Legislative Council, and of two-thirds of the
members for the time being of the said Legislative Assem-
bly respectively; and the assent of her Majesty shall not
be given to any such bill unless an address shall have been
presented by the Legislative Assembly to the Governor,
stating that such bill has been so passed.
XVIII. Any person absolutely free (except as is herein-
after excepted), who shall be registered as a voter in and
for any electoral district, shall be qualified to be elected a
member of the Legislative Assembly for any electoral dis-
trict within the said colony.
XIX. Any person holding any office of profit, or hav-
ing a pension from the Crown during pleasure, shall be in-
capable of being elected member of the Assembly which
may be hereafter convoked and holden, unless he be a
member of the Government, holding one of the following
offices :—Colonial Secretary, Colonial Treasurer, Solicitor
of Customs, Auditor-General, Postmaster-General, At-
torney-General, Solicitor-General, Inspector-General of
Police, Surveyor-General, and Chief Commissioner of
Crown Lands.
XX. If any elected member of the said Assembly shall
accept of any such office of profit or pension from the
Crown during pleasure, his election shall thereupon be
void, exception being made for pay or half-pay of the
army and navy.
XXI. No clergyman or minister of any denomination
shall bo eligible to serve in the said Assembly.
XXII. Any p arson who shall directly or indirectly hold
or enjoy any contract or agreement for the public service
shall be incapable of being elected a member of such
Assembly.
XXIII. If any person by this act declared to be in-
capable to sit or vote in any Assembly hereafter to be
summoned and holden, shall nevertheless presume to sit or
vote in any session, he shall forfeit the sum of five hundred
pounds, to be recovered by any person in the Supreme
Court of New South Wales, or in any other court o -
record.

XXIV. The Governor is to have the power to convene
and prorogue the Legislative Council or Assembly.
XXV. There shall be a session of the Legislative Coun-
cil and Assembly of the colony of New South Wales once
at least in every year ; so that a period of twelve calendar
months shall not intervene between the last sitting in one
session and the first sitting in the next session ; and
every Legislative Assembly shall continue for five years
from the day of the return of the writs for choosing the
same, subject nevertheless to be sooner prorogued or dis•
solved by the Governor.
XXVI. The Legislative Council
timeounc ailta iiAsembly shall be
called together for the'period not later
than six calendar months next after proclamation of
this act. )1, _
XXVII. The members of the Litlative Assembly
shall upon the first assembling after ev general election,
elect a speaker.
XXVIII. The presence of at least twenty members
shall be necessary to constitute a meeting of the Legisla-
tive Assembly for the despatch of business ; when the
votes shall be equal, the Speaker shall have the casting
vote.

XXX. No member, either of the Legislative Council or
of the Legislative Assembly of the colony of New South
Wales, shall be permitted to sit or vote therein until
he shall have taken and subscribed the following oath
before the Governor of the said colony, or before some
person or persons authorised by such Governor to ad-
minister such oath :—I, A. 8., do sincerely promise and
swear, that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to
her ajesty Queen Victoria. So help me God.
XXXI. Every person authorised by law .to make an
affirmation instead of taking an oath, may take such affir-
mation in every case in which an oath is hereiubefore re-
quired to be taken.
XXXII. It shall be lawful for any member of the As-
sembly, by writing under his hand, addressed to the
Speaker of the said House, to resign his seat.
XXXIV. When and so often as a vacancy shall occur
as aforesaid, upon a resolution by the Assembly declaring
such vacancy and the causes thereof, the Speaker shall
cause a writ to be issued for supplying such vacancy.
Clause XXXV. provides for the internal government of
the Legislative Assembly, the rules and standing orders of
which do not vary in any material degree from those in
force in the English Houses of Parliament.
By clause XXXVIL it is enacted that every bill which
has been passed by the Legislative Council and Assembly,
whether with or without amendments, shall be presented
for her Majesty's assent to the governor of the said colony,
and the governor in all bills relating to the local or muni-
cipal affairs of the said colony shall declare at once accord-
ing to his discretion that he assents to such bill in her
Majesty's name, or that he withholds her Majesty's assent,
and in all bills touching or affecting any Imperial subject,
the governor shall declare according to his discretion, but
subject nevertheless to the provisions contained in this act,
and to such instructions as muy from time to time be given
in that behalf by her Majesty, her heirs, or successors,
that he assents to such bill in her Majesty's name, or that
he withholds her Majesty's assent, or that he reserves such
bill for the signification of her Majesty's pleasure thereon.
By clause XXXVIII. it is provided whenever any bill
affecting any Imperial subject which shall have been pre-
sented for her Majesty's assent to the Governor of the said
colony, shall by such Governor have been assented to in
her Majesty's name, the Governor shall by the first con-
venient opportunity transmit to one of her Majesty's
Principal Secretaries of State an authentic copy of such
bill so assented to; and it shall be lawful at any time
within one year after such bill shall have been so received
by the Secretary of State, for her Majesty, by order in
Council, to declare her disallowance of such, and such dis-
allowance, together with a certificate under the hand and
seal of the Secretary of State, certifying the day on which
such bill was received as aforesaid, being signified by the
Governor to the Legislative Council of the said colony, by
speech or message to the said council, or by proclamation
in the New South Wales Government Gazette, shall make
void and annul the same from and after the day of such
notification.

By clause XXXIX. it is provided that BO bill which
shall be so reserved for the signification of her Majesty's
pleasure thereon, shall have force or authority within the
said colony until the Governor shall signify, either by
speech or message, to the said Legislative Council and
Assembly, or by proclamation, that such bill has been laid
before her Majesty in council, and that her Majesty has
been pleased to assent to the said bill, and an entry shall
be made in the journal of the said Legislative Council and
Assembly of every such speech, message, or proclamation,
and a duplicate thereof, duly attested, shall be delivered
to the registrar of the Supreme Court, or other proper
officer, to be kept among the records of the said colony ;
and no bill which shall be so reserved, as aforesaid, shall
have any force or authority in the said colony unless her
Majesty's assent thereto shall have been so signified as
aforesaid, within the space of one year from the day on
which such bill shall have been presented for her Majesty's
assent to the Governor as aforesaid.

XL. Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained
the Legislature of this colony, as constructed by this act,
shall have full power and authority, from time to time, by
any act or acts, to alter the provisions or laws for the time
being in force under this act or otherwise, and to repel any
act or acts of the Imperial Parliament which it may be
necessary to repel in order to give effect to any such act or
acts for altering the provisions or laws for the time being
in force under this act, or otherwise concerning the Legis-
lative Council, the nomination or election of another Legis-
lative Council, or of a separate Legislative House, to con-
sist respectively of such members to be appointed or elected
respectively by such person or personi, and in such man-
ner as by such act or acts shall be determined, and to vest
in such new Coitncil and the Legislative Assembly for the
time being, or in such separate Legislative House, the
powers and functions of the Parliament of this colony for
which such separate Legislative House_may besubstituted :
Provided always, that it shall not be lawful to present to
the governor of the said colony, for her Majesty's assent,
any bill of the Parliament of the said colony by which any
such alteration in the constitution of the said colony may
be made, unless the second and third reading of such bill
shall have been passed with the concurrence of two-thirds
of the members for the time being of the said Legislative
Council, and of the said Legislative Assembly respec-
tively : Provided also, that every bill ithali be so passed
for any of such purposes, shall be reserved for the signifi-
cation of her Majesty's pleasure thereon, and a copy of such
bill shall be laid before both Houses of the Imperial Par-