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their names from the electoral roll of one district to another. 
Claims and transfer forms are obtainable from the returning 
officer, registrars, and all post offices. 
Persons not entitled to vote include (1) any person who has 
been attainted of treason or has been convicted and is under 
sentence for an offence punishable in any part of His Majesty’s 
dominions by one year’s imprisonment or more (i.e. one 
who has not received a free pardon for such offence, or 
served the sentence for it); (2) any person brought into the 
Northern Territory of South Australia under the Northern 
Territory Indian I mmagration Act, 1882, and any person 
residing in the Northern Territory, unless a natural-born or 
naturalized subject of His Majesty, of European nationality, 
or a citizen of the United States, naturalized as a subject of 
His Majesty ; and (3) any insane person. The Northern 
Territory is now a part of the Commonwealth, and Act 
No. 1029 has reduced the number of members to forty and 
the quorum to fifteen ; nine districts counting three members 
each, two four, and one five. By s. 21 there is no plural 
voting. Manhood suffrage dates from 1856. and womanhood 
from 1894. 
In Western Australia the qualifications of electors were 
as follows under the Constitution Acts Amendment Act, 18991: 
Every person who had resided in Western Australia for 
six months was entitled to be registered as a voter, and 
after six months to vote, who was (1) twenty-one years of 
age and not subject to any legal incapacity ; (2) a natural- 
born or naturalized subject (for six months) of the King; 
(3) had in possession within the electoral district for which 
he or she ought to be registered, either a freehold estate of 
the value of £50 above all charges and incumbrances ; a lease- 
hold estate of the clear annual value of £10; or held a 
pastoral, agricultural, occupation, or mining lease, or licence 
from the Crown, subject to the payment of at least £5 per 
annum ; (4) was a householder occupying any house, ware- 
house, counting-house, office, shop, or other building of the 
clear annual value of £10 within the electoral district for 
! 63 Viet. No. 19, s. 26, and now Act No. 27 of 1907, amended considerably 
by Act No. 44 of 1911, Sec Parliamentary Debates, 1910-1, pp. 3192 scq.