814 THE FEDERATIONS AND THE UNION [PART IV
impose any tax on property of any kind belonging to a state.
115. A state shall not coin money, nor make anything
but gold and silver coin a legal tender in payment of debts.
116. The Commonwealth shall not make any law for estab-
lishing any religion, or for imposing any religious observance,
or for prohibiting the free exercise of any religion, and no reli-
gious test shall be required as a qualification for any office
or public trust under the Commonwealth.
117. A subject of the Queen, resident in any state, shall
not be subject in any other state to any disability or dis-
crimination which would not be equally applicable to him
if he were a subject of the Queen resident in such other state.
118. Full faith and credit shall be given, throughout the
Commonwealth to the laws, the public Acts and records,
and the judicial proceedings of every state.
119. The Commonwealth shall protect every state against
invasion and, on the application of the Executive Government
of the state. against domestic violence.
PART V.——POWERS OF THE PARLIAMENT
51. The Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution,
have power to make laws for the peace, order, and good
government of the Commonwealth with respect to :—
(i) Trade and commerce with other countries, and among
the states including, under s. 98. navigation and shipping
and state railways].
fii) Taxation ; but so as not to discriminate between states
or parts of states ;
(iii) Bounties on the production or export of goods, but so
that such bounties shall be uniform throughout the
Commonwealth ;
(iv) Borrowing money on the public credit of the Common-
wealth ;
(v) Postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services 2;
(vi) The naval and military defence of the Commonwealth
and of the several states, and the control of the forces
to execute and maintain the laws of the Commonwealth :
(vii) Lighthouses, lightships, beacons, and buoys 3 ;
(viii) Astronomical and meteorological observations 4 -
* The clause was due to Mr. Higging’s fear of sacerdotalism ; see Quick
ind Garran, op. cit., pp. 951-3; Harrison Moore, op. cit., pp. 287, 288.
* Of. Commonwealth v. Progress Advertising Co., 10 C. L. R. 457.
* On this head no legislation has yet been passed.
See Meteorology Act, 1906.
