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(3) Do, concur in, or adopt any act whereby he might 
become the subject or citizen of any such state or power ; or 
(4) Become an insolvent or take advantage of any law for 
the relief of insolvent debtors ; or 
(6) Be a public defaulter, or be attainted of treason, or be 
sentenced to imprisonment for any infamous crime ; or 
(6) Become of unsound mind ; ‘or 
(7) Accept any office of profit under the Crown other than 
that of a Minister, or that of an officer of Our naval and 
military forces on retired or half pay. 
Provided that a person in receipt of pension from the Crown 
should not be deemed to hold an office of profit under the 
Crown within the meaning of this section! 
2. It was provided by clauses lv and lvi of the letters 
patent that all Bills for appropriating any part of the consoli- 
dated revenue fund or for imposing, altering, or repealing any 
rate, tax, duty, or impost, should originate in the Legislative 
Assembly, and that ‘The Legislative Council may either 
accept or reject any Money Bill passed by the Legislative 
Assembly, but may not alter it.’ 
3. The following provision was made by clause xxxvii for 
the case of disagreement between the Legislative Council 
and the Legislative Assembly :— 
(1) If the Legislative Assembly passes any proposed law 
and the Legislative Council rejects or fails to pass it, or passes 
it with amendments to which the Legislative Assembly will 
not agree, and if the Legislative Assembly, in the next session, 
again passes the proposed law with or without any amend- 
ments which have been made, suggested, or agreed to by the 
Legislative Council, and the Legislative Council rejects, or 
tails to pass it, or passes it with amendments to which the 
Legislative Assembly will not agree, the Governor may 
during that session convene a joint sitting of the members 
of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly in the 
manner hereinafter provided, or may dissolve the Legislative 
Assembly, and may simultaneously dissolve both the Legis- 
lative Council and Legislative Assembly if the Legislative 
Council shall then be an elected Council. But such dissolu- 
tion shall not take place within six months before the date of 
the expiry of the Legislative Assembly by effluxion of time. 
' Similar provisions applied to the Lower House. See above, p. 501.