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House of Assembly of the said Colony : Provided that the
Legislative Council of the said Colony and the Governor
thereof shall, respectively, have full power and authority to
make, in all such Bills, such amendments as the said Council
and the said Governor shall, respectively, regard as needful
or expedient ; and the said Council and the said Governor
may, respectively, return such Bills, so amended, to the
House of Assembly or the Legislative Council.
This clause allowed the Council to increase the burden on
the people, but the power was not, normally at least, used.
3. No special provision was made by law for the settle-
ment of differences between the Legislative Council and the
House of Assembly, but by s. 74 of the Constitution Ordi-
nance it was provided that the Governor might, whenever
he saw fit so to do, either by speech or proclamation dissolve
the Legislative Council and the House of Assembly, or
dissolve the House of Assembly without dissolving the
Legislative Council.
(6) Natal
Under the Constitution Act, No. 14 of 1893, ss. 14-21, and
amending Acts the Legislative Council of Natal consisted in
1910 of thirteen members summoned by the Governor in
Council in the name of His Majesty by instrument under the
Public Seal of the Colony.
Each person so summoned held his seat for ten years from
the date of his summons, but five of the members of the
Legislative Council first summoned vacated their seats at
the end of five years, the particular members who were so
bo vacate their seats being decided by lot within the first
week of the first session of the Legislative Council. The
members were summoned from the following districts of the
Colony :—Five from within the counties of Durban, Victoria,
Alexandria, and Alfred ; three from within the counties of
Pietermaritzburg and Umvoti, and three from within the
counties of Weenen and Klip River, one from the Province
of Zululand, and one from the new territory (Utrecht); but
not more than two members might be chosen within any one
county. The quorum was five.
A Legislative Councillor had to be of the age of 30 years
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