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provisions of this section render it necessary for any 
Appropriation Bill to be initiated in the Lower House. 
3. There is no legal provision for a settlement of differences 
between the two Houses. 
§ 5. SOUTH AFRICA 
(a) Cape of Good Hope?! 
Under the Constitution Ordinance, 1852, and amending 
Acts, No. 1 of 1872 and No. 14 of 1893, the Legislative 
Council of the Cape of Good Hope consisted in 1910 of 
26 elected members, presided over ex officio by the Chief 
Justice. The members were elected, four for the Western, 
the South-eastern and the Eastern Provinces, three for the 
North-western, South-western, Midland and North-eastern 
Provinces, and one each for British Bechuanaland and 
Griqualand West. They kept their seats for seven years 
anless the Council was sooner dissolved.? 
No person was qualified to be elected a member of the 
Council who was incapacitated to be registered as a voter, 
was under the age of 30 years, was not the owner for his own 
ase and benefit of immovable property situate within the 
Colony of the value of £2,000 over and above all special 
conventional mortgages affecting the same, or who was not, 
being the owner of such property to such value but under 
mortgage, at the same time possessed of property movable 
and immovable in the Colony to the value of not less than 
£4,000 over and above his just debts. A married man for the 
purposes of this provision was deemed and taken to own 
or occupy the whole of the property belonging to his wife. 
But no person holding an office of profit under the Crown 
within the Colony, and no uncertificated insolvent, and no 
alien who had been registered as a voter by virtue merely 
of having obtained a deed of burghership, was eligible to be 
elected a member of the Council. From this proviso were 
excepted the offices of Colonial Secretary, Treasurer, 
' See also The Government of South Africa, ii. 382 seq., 400. 
* Formerly for ten years, with a rotation, one half retiring every five 
years. Originally there were only two provinces, but this was changed in 
1874 ; see Molteno, Sir J. Molteno, i. 210 seq.