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(2) If after such dissolution the Legislative Assembly 
again passes the proposed law, with or without any amend- 
ments which have been made, suggested, or agreed to by 
the Legislative Council, and the Legislative Council rejects 
or fails to pass it, or passes it with amendments to which 
the Legislative Assembly will not agree, the Governor may 
convene a joint sitting of the members of the Legislative 
Council and of the Legislative Assembly, at which the 
Speaker of the Legislative Assembly shall preside. 
(3) The members present at any joint sitting convened 
ander either of the preceding subsections may deliberate 
and shall vote together upon the proposed law, as last 
proposed by the Legislative Assembly, and upon amend- 
ments, if any, which have been made therein by the one 
House of the Legislature and not agreed to by the other, 
and any such amendments which are affirmed by an absolute 
majority of the total number of the members of the Legis- 
lative Council and the Legislative Assembly shall be taken 
to have been carried, and if the proposed law, with the 
amendments, if any, so carried, is affirmed by an absolute 
majority of the total number of the members of the Legisla- 
tive Council and Legislative Assembly, it shall be taken to 
have been duly passed by the Legislature. 
(d) Orange River Colony 
The Legislative Council of the Orange River Colony as 
constituted by clauses ii—vii of the letters patent of the 5th 
of June, 1907, consisted of eleven members, to be summoned 
by the Governor by an instrument under the Public Seal of 
the Colony in the name of His Majesty, casual vacancies to 
be filled by the Governor in Council. 
It was provided by the letters patent that three of the 
members of the Legislative Council, as first constituted, 
should vacate their seats at the expiration of the third 
year from the date of the issue of the first summons of any 
members thereto ; four at the end of the fifth year and four 
at the end of the seventh year; the members who retired at 
the end of the third, fifth, and seventh years to be decided by 
lot, and fresh members to be appointed in their place by the 
Governor in Council; such members to hold office for five years 
from the date of their summons. But members could be re- 
appointed by the Governor in Council. The quorum was four.