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Court, of unsound mind, or in the receipt of aid from any 
public charitable institution, except as a patient under 
treatment for accident or disease at a hospital ; (2) is in 
prison under any conviction, or has been convicted of any 
crime or offence in any part of His Majesty’s dominions, 
and has not received a free pardon or served the sentence 
passed therefor. There is no plural voting. 
The state is divided into five electorates, each returning 
six members, and voting is on the preferential system. The 
quorum is a third. 
It will be observed that in all cases women are permitted 
to vote in Australia l—the last refuge of men, the Legislative 
Council of Victoria, having permitted the extension of the 
franchise to women by an Act (No. 2185) which, having 
been reserved, received the royal assent in 1909. Tt was 
first adopted in 1893 in New Zealand, but Canada and South 
Africa have steadily, so far, rejected the proposals for its 
adoption in those dominions. 
(¢) New Zealand. 
In the case of New Zealand the qualification under the 
Consolidated Statutes, 1908, No. 101, s. 35, for the franchise 
for the Lower House of eighty members, including four Maoris 
each for one district, is as follows : (a) Every person lawfully 
on the existing roll of the district in respect of a property 
qualification, so long as he retains such qualification : (b) 
every adult person who has resided for one year in New 
Zealand, and who has resided in the electoral district for 
which he claims to vote during the three months immediately 
preceding his registration on the roll of the district, and who 
is a British subject either by birth or naturalization, or a half- 
caste, is entitled (subject to the provisions of the Act) to be 
registered as an elector and to vote at the election of 
* Accorded in 1902 (Act No. 1 of 1903) in New South Wales, after being 
twice rejected in the Upper House; in South Australia by Act No. 613 in 
1894, in Western Australia by the Act 63 Vict. No. 19, as a Conservative 
move, Cf. Pember Reeves, State Experiments in Australia and New 
Zealand, i. 143 seq. For Tasmania, see 3 Edw. VII. No. 13; Queensland, 
5 Edw. VII. No.1. For the Commonwealth, cf. Parliamentary Debates, 
1910, pp. 6300, 6886.