544 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [PART 111 
Attorney-General, Commissioner of Public Works, and 
Secretary for Agriculture, and of Prime Minister even if not 
holding one of these offices. 
A member of the Legislative Council could resign his seat 
by writing under his hand or by telegraph message addressed 
to the President of the Council, and his seat was vacated 
if for one whole session of the Parliament he failed to give 
his attendance in the Council without the permission of the 
Council, or took any oath or made any declaration or 
acknowledgement of allegiance, obedience, or adherence to 
any foreign prince or power, or did, concurred in, or adopted 
any act whereby he might become a subject or citizen of 
any foreign state or power, or if his estate were sequestrated 
as insolvent. A seat was also vacated if the member should 
accept or be the holder of any office of profit under the Crown 
save and except the office of Colonial Secretary and other 
offices specified above. 
The qualifications for electors were the age of 21 years 
or upwards, possession of property worth £75, or receipt of 
salary or wages of not less than £350 a year, but no person 
could be newly registered as a voter since the Ballot and 
Franchise Act of 1892 unless he could sign his name and write 
his address and occupation. Voters for the Legislative 
Council had as many votes as there were seats to be filled, 
and they might give all their votes to one candidate or 
divide them between two or more candidates. 
2. The following provision was made by s. 88 of the 
Constitution Ordinance as approved by Order in Council of 
the 11th of March, 1853 — 
And be it enacted, that in regard to all Bills relative to 
the granting of supplies to Her Majesty, or the imposition of 
any impost, rate, or pecuniary burden upon the inhabitants, 
and which Bills shall be of such a nature that if Bills similar 
to them should be proposed to the Imperial Parliament of 
Great Britain and Ireland, such Bills would, by the law and 
custom of Parliament, be required to originate in the House 
of Commons, that all such Bills shall originate in, or be by 
the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope introduced into. the 
! There were similar provisions regarding the Lower House, save as to 
age and property qualification. See above, p. 500.