190 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [PART LiL
the person claiming to vote shall have resided within the
last three months within the electoral division for which
he claims registration. The Registration Act, No. 14 of 1887,
cxcludes persons whose only qualification by possession of
property is a share in tribal occupancy. The old Cape
Assembly consisted of 107 members for forty-six divisions.
Lunatics, and persons convicted for murder, treason, and
other offences, are disqualified.
In Natal the conditions are similar, but there is no dis-
qualification on the ground of lunacy, and there is no
educational qualification.
(@) A voter must own immovable property worth £50
within the constituency ; or, as an alternative, (6) he must
rent immovable property worth £10 per annum within the
constituency ; or as an alternative, (¢) he must have resided
three years in the Colony, and have income worth £8 per
month.
Natives, including coloured people, are disqualified unless
they have resided for twelve years in the Colony, have been
exempted from the operation of native law for seven years,
have been recommended by three duly qualified European
electors, and have received a certificate at the discretion of
the Governor, who would act in Council, entitling them to
registration. Persons who are natives or descendants in the
male line of natives of countries which have not possessed
representative elective institutions founded on the parlia-
mentary franchise are also prevented from voting under an
Act of 1896, unless exempted by the Governor in Council.
In the old Assembly there were forty-three members for
seventeen divisions.
In the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony the only
qualifications required are residence for six months before
registration, or a total residence of six months in the three
years preceding, and residence at the date of registration
" See The Government of South 4 frica, ii. 396, 397 ; Parl Pap., Cd. 2399,
pp. 65 seq. ; Cape Acts No. 9 of 1892; No. 19 of 1898; No. 48 of 1899;
No. 5 of 1902; No. 6 of 1908; Natal Charter, July 15, 1856, ss. 11, 12;
Law No. 11 of 1865; No. 2 of 1883; Act No. 8 of 1896 ; Transvaal Letters
Patent, Dee. 6, 1906, ss. 9, 10; Orange River Colony Letters Patent, June 5.
1907, ss. 9. 10.
