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to the Commonwealth, and shall be in the State of New South Wales, and be distant not less than one hundred miles from Sydney.

  Such territory shall contain an area of not less than one hundred square miles, and such portion thereof as shall consist of Crown lands shall be granted to the Commonwealth without any payment therefor.

  The Parliament shall sit at Melbourne until it meet at the seat of Government.

126.  Power to Her Majesty to authorise Governor-General to appoint deputies.

  The Queen may authorize the Governor-General to appoint any person, or any persons jointly or severally, to be his deputy or deputies within any part of the Commonwealth, and in that capacity to exercise during the pleasure of the Governor-General such powers and functions of the Governor-General as he thinks fit to assign to such deputy or deputies, subject to any limitations expressed or directions given by the Queen; but the appointment of such deputy or deputies shall not affect the exercise by the Governor-General himself of any power or function.

Chapter VIII.—Alteration of the Constitution.

128.  Mode of altering the Constitution.

  This Constitution shall not be altered except in the following manner:—

  The proposed law for the alteration thereof must be passed by an absolute majority of each House of the Parliament, and not less than two nor more than six months after its passage through both Houses the proposed law shall be submitted in each State and Territory to the electors qualified to vote for the election of members of the House of Representatives.

  But if either House passes any such proposed law by an absolute majority, and the other House rejects or fails to pass it or passes it with any amendment to which the first-mentioned House will not agree, and if after an interval of three months the first-mentioned House in the same or the next session again passes the proposed law by an absolute majority with or without any amendment which has been made or agreed to by the other House, and such other House rejects or fails to pass it or passes it with any amendment to which the first-mentioned House will not agree, the Governor‑General may submit the proposed law as last proposed by the first-mentioned House, and either with or without any amendments subsequently agreed to by both Houses, to the electors in each State and Territory qualified to vote for the election of the House of Representatives.

  When a proposed law is submitted to the electors the vote shall be taken in such manner as the Parliament prescribes.  But until the qualification of electors of members of the House of Representatives becomes uniform throughout the Commonwealth, only one-half