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the leave of the Council; (3) takes an oath of allegiance 
to any foreign power ; (4) becomes insolvent or a public de- 
faulter ; (5) is attainted of treason or commits a felony; (6) 
becomes insane ; (7) becomes concerned in a public contract, 
except as a member of a partnership of more than twenty 
persons ; or (8) accepts an office of profit under the Crown, 
except as Minister, in which case his seat is vacated, but he 
is eligible for re-election, or as President of the Council, or 
Chairman of Committees, or becomes a member of the 
Federal Parliament? 
Electors are qualified by—(1) owning the freehold or being 
mortgagor or mortgagee in possession, or in the receipt of 
the rents or profits, of property situate in one and the same 
province rated at not less than £10 a year; (2) being lessee 
or assignee for the unexpired residue of any term originally 
created for a period of not less than five years, or occupier 
of property, in one and the same province rated at not less 
than £15 a year; (3) being joint owner, lessee, assignee, or 
occupier of property sufficient to give each the foregoing 
qualification; (4) being resident in Victoria and a graduate 
of any university in the British dominions. a matriculated 
student of Melbourne University, a qualified legal or medical 
practitioner, a minister of religion, a certificated school- 
master, or a naval or military officer. 
All voters not being natural-born subjects of His Majesty 
must have resided in the state for twelve months previous 
to the 1st of January or the 1st of July in any year, and shall 
have been naturalized at least three years previously. 
The suffrage is possessed by both men and women since 
1909, but no person is entitled to more than one vote in 
the same province.? 
9. Tt is provided by s. 56 of the Bill scheduled to the 
+ There are analogous disqualifications for the Assembly, but no property 
franchise there exists. See above, p. 496. 
* The special representation of railway and other public servants in the 
Council by one member created in 1903 was repealed in 1906, the Council 
thus being reduced to 34 members. Similarly the three members, two for 
railway and one for other public servants, of the Assembly created in 1903, 
were abolished by the Act of 1906, No. 2075,