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THE NEW CONSTITUTION FOR NEW

SOUTH WALES.

The following is an abstract of the bill for conferring
a constitution upon New South Wales :
A BILL TO CONFER A CONSTITUTION ON NEW
SOUTH. WALES, .AND..,TO GRANT A CIVIL-144Z
TO HER MAJESTY. -
Whereas, by the thirty-second clause of the Imperial
Act, passed in the session holden in the thirteenth and
fourteenth years of the reign of her present Majesty, inti-
tuled " An Act for the better Government of her Majesty's
Australian Colonies," it was among other things enacted,
that notwithstanding anything thereinbefore contained, it
should be lawful for the Governor and Legislative Council
of this colony, after the separation therefrom of the colony
of Victoria, from time to time, by any act or acts, to alter
the provisions or laws for the time being in force under the
said Imperial act or otherwise, concerning the election of
the elective members of such Legislative Council, the quali-
fication of electors and elective members, or to establish in
the said colony, instead of the Legislative Council, a coun-
cil and a house of representatives, or other separate legis-
lative houses, to consist of such members to be appointed
or elected by such persons and in such manner as by such
act or acts shall be determined, and to vest in such council
and house of representation, or other separate legislative
houses, the powers and functions of the Legislative Council
for which the same may bs substituted ; and whereas it is
expedient that the powers vested by the said act in the said
Governor and Legislative Council should be exercised and
that a Parliament, consisting of a Legislative Council and
Assembly, should be substituted for the said Legislative
Council, with the increased powers and functions herein
after contained : Be it therefore enacted, by his Excellency
the Governor of New South Wales, with the advice and
consent of the Legislative Council thereof as follows :
L There shall be in place of the Legislative Council now
subsisting, one Legislative Council and one Legislative
Assembly, which shall be called "The Parliament of New
South Wales ;" and within the said colony of New South
Wales, her Majesty shall have power, by and with the
advice and consent of the said Parliament to make laws for
the government of the said colony in all cases whatsoever ;
and such laws shall bo valid within the said colony : Pro-
vided that all bills for appropriating any part of the sur-
plus of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, or for imposing
any new rate, tax, or impost, subject always to the limi-
tation contained in clause fifty-three of this act, shall ori-
ginate in the Legislative Assembly of the said colony; and
further, that all bills affecting any Imperial subject may
be s eserved in the discretion of the Governor for her Ma-
jesty's pleasure, and if assented to by such Governor, on
behalf of her Majesty, may be disallowed by her Majesty
in the manner and within the period hereinafter limited.
11. The bills on Imperial subjects include —l. Bills
touching the allegiance of the inhabitants of this colony to
her Majesty's Crown. 2. Bills touching the naturalisation
of aliens. 3. Bills relating to treaties between the Crown
and any foreign power. 4. Bills relating to political in-
tt mourse and communications between this colony and any
officer of a foreign power or dependency. 5. Bills relating
the employment. command, and discipline of her Majesty's
sea and laud forces within this colony, and whatever re-
lates to the defence of the colony from foreign aggression,
including the command of the municipal militia and ma-
rine. 6. Bills relating to the crime of high treason.
111. Whenever any question shall arse as the right of
the Governor to reserve any bill for the signification of her
Majesty's pleasure thereon, or as to the right of her Ma-
jesty to disallow any such bill, the same shall be deter-
mined by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council,
and in no- other manner except by the consent of the said
Parliament, of New South Wales : Provided that all such
bills shall be absolutely in abeyance pending any such de-
termination.
IT. For the purpose of composing the Legislative Coun-
cil of New South Wales, it shall be lawful for her Ma-
jesty, before the time to be appointed for the first meeting
of the said Legislative Council and Assembly, by an in-
strument under the sign manual, to authorise the Gover-
nor, with the advice of the Executive Council, in her
Majesty's name, by an instrument under the Great Seal of
the said colony, to summon to the said Legislative Council
of the said colony, such persons, being not fewer than
twenty, as her Majesty shall think fit, and it shall also be
lawful for her Majesty, from time to time, to authorise the
Governor, in like manner, to summon to the said Legisla-
tive Council such other person or persons as her Majesty
shall think fit, and every person who shall be so summoned
shall thereby become a member of the Legislative Council
of the said colony : Provided always, that no person shall
be summoned to the said Legislative Council who shall not
be of the full age of twenty-one years, and a natural born
subject of her Majesty, or naturalised by an act of the
Imperial Parliament, or by an act of tho Legislature of
the said colony : Provided also, that no judge of the Su-
preme Court of the said colony appointed during pleasure,
nor any judge of the same court, or of any other court
within the said colony, who may be hereafter appointed a
judge quane diu se bone gcsserit, shall be eligible to be sum-
moned to the said Legislative Council ; nor shall any pre-
late, priest, deacon, or minister of any religious denomi-
nation. whatever may be his title, rank, or designation, be
so eligible.
V. Whenever her Majesty, her heir=, or successors shall
think proper to confer upon any subject of the Crown of
Great Britain, by letters patent, under the great seal of the
said colony, any hereditary title of honour, rank, or dignity
of such colony, tiescendible according to any course of des-
cent limited in such letters patent, it shall be lawful for her
Majesty, her heirs, or successors, to annex thereto, by the
said letters patent, if her Majesty, her heirs, or successors
shall so think fit, a right to each original patentee to be

summoned to the Legislative Council of the said colony :
and every person on whom such right shall be so conferred
shall t hereupon be entitled to demand from the Governor
his writ of summons to Legislative Council, subject, never-
theless, to the provisions hereinafter contained.
VI. Whenever the number of persons to whom such
hereditary titles shall have descended shall, together with
the Council, amount to fifty, or upwards, the Legislative
Council so nominated as aforesaid shall cease and deter-
mine ; and such original patentees, together with all such
persons to whom such descendible titles shall have come,

being of the full age of twenty-one years, and not having
taken an oath of allegiance or obedience to any foreign
prince or power, and being duly required by the procla-
mation of the Governor, shall assemble together at such
place as shall be directed in the said proclamation, and the
major part of the persons so assembled, after appointing a
chairman for the occasion by a majority of the votes of the
persons present, shall proceed to elect twenty from the
whole number then existing of persons to whom such de-
seendible titles belong, and it shall thereupon be the duty
of the chairman so appointed to return, within three days
at the latest, to the Governor, the names of the persons so
elected to servo as members of the said Legislative Coun-
cil ; and the twenty members so elected, together with
the original patentees then summoned, or hereafter to ho
summoned, to the said Legislative Council, shall form
thenceforward the Legislative Council of the said colony :
Provided always, that whenever any vacancy or vacancies
shall occur, from any of the causes in this act specified, in
the number of persons so elected to serve as members of
the Legislative Council, then, and in every such case, the
like proclamation or proclamations mutatis mutandis shall
be issued by the Governor.
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VII. Every member of the Legislative Council shall
hold his seat therein for the term of his life, subject to the
provisions hereinafter contained for vacating the same.
VIII. It shall be lawful for any member of the Legisla-
tive Council to resign his seat by a letter to the Governor.
IX. If any legislative councillor of the colony of New
South Wales shall for two successive sessions of the legis-
lature of the said colony, fail to give his attendance in the
said Legislative Council without the permission of her
Majesty or of the Governor of the said colony, signified by
the said Governor to the Legislative Council, or shall take
any oath or make any declaration or acknowledgment of
allegiance, obedience, or adherence to any foreign prince
or power, or shall become bankrupt, insolvent, or become'
a public, contractor or defaulter, or be attainted of trea-
son, or be convicted of felony, or of any infamous crime,
his seat in such council shall thereby become vacant.
X. Any question respecting any vacancy in the Legisla-
tive Council shall be referred to the Legislative Council :
Provided always that it shall bo lawful either for the
party, or hell Majesty's Attorney-General for the said
colony, to appeal to her Majesty, and that the judgment
of her Majesty, given with the advice of her Privy Coun-
cil, shall be final.
XI. The Governor of the colony of New South Wales
shall have power to apr oint the president of the said Le-
gislative Council, and to remove him.
XII. The presence of at least one-third of the members
of the said Legislative Council, exclusive of the president,
shall be necessary to constitute a quorum.
XIII. The Governor, from time to time, in her Majes-
ty's name, by an instrument under the great seal of the
said colony, is to summon and call together a Legislative

Assembly.
XIV. The Legislative Assembly shall for the present
consist of fifty-four members, to be elected by the inhabi-
tants of the said colony, having any of the following qua-
lifications, that is to say :—Every than of the age of twenty-
one years, being natural born or a naturalised subject of
her Majesty, or legally made a denizen of New South
Wales, and having a freehold estate in possession, si-
tuate within the district for which ,his vote is to be
t given, of the clear value of one hundred pounds sterling