550 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [PART 11
Power was given in the letters patent for the Legislature,
at any time after four years from the date of the first meeting
of the Council, to pass a law providing for the election of
members of the Legislative Council, and thereupon, subject
to the provisions of such law, the then existing Legislative
Council would have been dissolved and the new Council
would have been elected on such conditions as were laid
down in the law.
No person could be summoned unless he was of the age
of 30 years or upwards, had resided in the Colony for three
years, and was qualified to be registered as a voter for some
electoral division of the Colony.
Any member of the Legislative Council could resign his
seat by writing under his hand addressed to the Governor.
A member of the Legislative Council vacated his seat under
clause xxxii if he should-—
(1) Fail for a whole ordinary annual session to give his
attendance in the Legislative Council ; or
(2) Take any oath, or make any declaration or acknow-
ledgement of allegiance, obedience, or adherence to any
foreign state or power ; or
(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, that of a member of the Inter-Colonial
Council, of the Liquor Licensing Court, or of any Commission
appointed by the Governor in Council, or under any law to
make any public inquiry, 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. By clause lvi of the letters patent, all Bills for appro-
priating any part of the consolidated revenue fund, or for
! Similar provisions applied to the Lower House, Sec above, p. 501.
