car. 1] THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA 913
counting whites only is under two thousand, there shall be
three, with one for every complete thousand over the number
of two thousand, but so as never to exceed twelve. The
quorum is a third of the members. Only the Lieutenant-
Governor can propose money votes. The Council has full
legislative powers, but cannot impose discriminating duties
on Commonwealth imports, and every Act needs the assent
of the Lieutenant-Governor and may then be disallowed
within six months after the assent. The Lieutenant-
Governor may also reserve a Bill, and then it falls to the
ground unless assented to within one year from the date of
presentation to the Lieutenant-Governor for his assent.
The Lieutenant-Governor is forbidden by the Act to assent
to any of the following classes of Bills unless they contain
a suspending clause : Bills for divorce, and for the disposal
of Crown lands, Bills granting him land or money, or incon-
sistent with the treaty obligations of the United Kingdom or
the Commonwealth, or interfering with the control or disci-
pline of the Imperial military or naval forces, and Bills inter-
fering with the prerogative or the rights and property of
subjects eof the King outside the territories, or the trade and
shipping of any part of the Empire, if these Bills are of an
extraordinary nature or importance. He cannot assent also
to Bills dealing with native lands, or native labour, or depor-
tation of natives, or the supply of arms, ammunition, and
intoxicants to the natives, or immigration of Asiatics,
African or Australian natives, or natives of the Pacific
Islands, or Bills which have before been refused assent
either by the Crown or by the Governor-General.! Further,
the Commonwealth can of course make laws for the territory
at pleasure, and by an unusual provision, while existing laws
were continued, power was taken, in the case of all ordinances
existing on the subjects which are mentioned as requiring
reservation in the case of future Bills, to submit the Acts to
the Governor-General, who could disallow any one within
three months.
The judiciary consists of the existing Courts, which, how-
1 Tf he assents, the assent is void.
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