had been produced in the State. || 114. A State shall not, without the consent of The Parliament of the Commonwealth, raise or maintain any naval or military force, or impose any tax on property of any kind belonging to the Commonwealth, nor shall the Commonwealth 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 establishing any religion, or for imposing any religious observance, or for prohibiting the free exercise of any religion, and no religious 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 discrimination 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. || 120. Every State shall make provision for the detention in its prisons of persons accused or convicted of offences against the laws of the Commonwealth, and for the punishment of persons convicted of such offences, and The Parliament of the Commonwealth may make laws to give effect to this provision.

Chapter VI.

New States.

121. The Parliament may admit to the Commonwealth or establish new States, and may upon such admission or establishment make or impose such terms and conditions, including the extent of representation in either House of The Parliament, as it thinks fit. || 122. The Parliament may make laws for the government of any territory surrendered by any State to and accepted by the Commonwealth, or of any territory placed by the Queen under the authority of and accepted by the Commonwealth, or otherwise acquired by the Commonwealth, and may allow the representation of such territory in either House of The Parliament to the extent and on the terms which it thinks fit. || 123. The Parliament of the Commonwealth may, with the consent of the Parliament of a State, and the approval of the majority of the electors of the State voting upon the question, increase, diminish, or otherwise alter the limits of the State, upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed on, and may,

with the like consent, make provision respecting the effect and operation of any increase or diminution or alteration of territory in relation to any State affected. || 124. A new State may be formed by separation of territory from a State, but only with the consent of the Parliament thereof, and a new State may be formed by the union of two or more States or parts of States, but only with the consent of the Parliaments of the States affected.

Chapter VII.

Miscellaneous.

125. The seat of Government of the Commonwealth shall be deternined by The Parliament, and shall be within territory which shall have been granted to or acquired by the Commonwealth, and shall be vested in and belong to the Commonwealth, and if New South Wales be an Original State shall be in that State and be distant not less than one hundred miles from Sydney. Such territory shall contain an area of not less than one hundred square miles and such portion thereof as shall consist of Crown lands shall be granted to the Commonwealth without any payment therefor. || If Victoria be an Original State, The Parliament shall sit at Melbourne until it meets at the seat of Government. || 126. The Queen may authorize the Governor-General to appoint any person, or any persons jointly or severally, to be his deputy or deputies within any part of the Commonwealth, and in that capacity to exercise during the pleasure of the Governor-General such powers and functions of the Governor-General as he thinks fit to assign to such deputy or deputies, subject to any limitations expressed or directions given by the Queen; but the appointment of such deputy or deputies shall not affect the exercise by the Governor-General himself of any powers or function. || 127. In reckoning the numbers of the people of the Commonwealth, or of a State or other part of the Commonwealth, aboriginal natives shall not be counted.

manner:

Chapter VIII.

Alteration of the Constitution.

128. This Constitution shall not be altered except in the following The proposed law for the alteration thereof must be passed by an absolute majority of each House of The Parliament, and not less than two nor more than six months after its passage through both Houses the proposed law shall be submitted in each State to the electors qualified to vote for the election of members of the House of Representatives. But if either House passes any such proposed law by an absolute majority, and the other House rejects or fails to pass it or passes

it with any amendment to which the first - mentioned House will not agree, and if after an interval of three months the first-mentioned House in the same or the next Session again passes the proposed law by an absolute majority with or without any amendment which has been made or agreed to by the other House, and such other House rejects or fails to pass it or passes it with any amendment to which the first-mentioned House will not agree, the Governor-General may submit the proposed law as last proposed by the first-mentioned House, and either with or without any amendments subsequently agreed to by both Houses, to the electors in each State qualified to vote for the election of the House of Representatives. || When a proposed law is submitted to the electors the vote shall be taken in such manner as The Parliament prescribes. But until the qualification of electors of members of the House of Representatives becomes uniform throughout the Commonwealth, only one-half the electors voting for and against the proposed law shall be counted in any State in which adult suffrage prevails. || And if in a majority of the States a majority of the electors voting approve the proposed law, and if a majority of all the electors voting also approve the proposed law, it shall be presented to the Governor-General for the Queen's assent. || No alteration diminishing the proportionate representation of any State in either House of The Parliament, or the minimum number of representatives of a State in the House of Representatives, or increasing, diminishing, or otherwise altering the limits of the State, or in any manner af fecting the provisions of the Constitution in relation thereto, shall become law unless the majority of the electors voting in that State approve the proposed law.

The Schedule.
Oath.

I, A.B., do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Her heirs and successors according to law. So help me God!

Affirmation.

I, A.B., do solemnly and sincerely affirm and declare that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Her heirs and successors according to law.

(Note. -The name of the King or Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the time being is to be substituted from

time to time.)

Nr. 13133. AUSTRALISCHE KOLONIEN. Adressen der Kolonien an die Königin über die Bundesverfassung.

No. 1.

August-Oktober 1899.

South Australia.

May it please Your Majesty We, Your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, Members of the Legislative Council of South Australia, in Parliament assembled, approach Your Majesty with assurances of our loyalty and sincere attachment to Your Majesty's Throne and Person. | We humbly pray Your Majesty to be pleased to cause a measure to be submitted to the Imperial Parliament for passing into Law the Federal Constitution for Australasia which has been accepted by the Colonies of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania.

August 8, 1899.

August 3, 1899.

Legislative Council, South Australia.

R. C. Baker, President. House of Assembly, South Australia. Jenkin Coles, Speaker. F. Halcomb, Clerk.

No. 2.
Victoria.

May it please Your Majesty We, Your Majesty's loyal subjects, the Members of the Legislative Council and the Members of the Legislative Assembly of Victoria, in Parliament assembled, approach Your Majesty with assurances of loyal attachment to Your Throne and Person. We humbly desire to lay before Your Majesty: || 1. That, pursuant to legislation passed by the Parliaments of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia, a Convention of Representatives of the Colonies named met during the years 1897 and 1898, and framed a Draft Federal Constitution in the form of a Bill for enactment by the Imperial Parliament. || 2. That in the beginning of the present year the Prime Ministers of the Colonies named and the Prime Minister of Queensland in Conference assembled amended the said Draft Federal Constitution in certain respects. || 3. That subsequently Federation Enabling Acts were passed by the Parliaments of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, and Tasmania, and those Acts provided for the submission of the Federal Constitution, drafted and amended as aforesaid, to the Electors of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, and Tasmania for acceptance or rejection. ||

4. That the Electors of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania have accepted the said Constitution as amended, and a vote of the people of Queensland will be taken on the 2nd September next. 5. That the,,Victorian Australasian Federation Enabling Act, 1896", No. 1 443, provides as follows: Section 37,,If two Colonies in addition to Victoria accept the Constitution, the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Victoria may adopt a joint Address to the Queen praying that the Constitution may be passed into law by the Imperial Parliament upon receipt from the Parliaments of such two Colonies either of similar joint or separate Addresses from each House at such Parliaments." || Section 38 „When such joint Address has been agreed to, pursuant to the preceding section, the same shall be transmitted to the Queen with a certified copy of the Constitution." || 6. That by the „Victorian Australasian Federation Enabling Act, 1899", No. 1603, which amended Act No. 1443, called therein the Principal Act, it is provided as follows: This Act shall be incorporated with the Principal Act, and, except so far as inconsistent with this Act or inapplicable thereto, the provisions of the Principal Act relating to the submission of the Constitution to the Electors and its transmission to the Queen for legislative enactment by the Imperial Parliament shall mutatis mutandis apply to the Constitution as proposed to be amended in the particulars appearing in the First Schedule to this Act.",,The Constitution as proposed to be amended in the particulars appearing in the First Schedule to this Act and as set forth in the Second Schedule to this Act shall || (a) be submitted to the Electors for the Legislative Assembly in Victoria for acceptance or rejection by direct vote, and, if accepted by a majority of the Electors voting, may, afterwards, || (b) be transmitted by both Houses of Parliament to the Queen for legislative enactment by the Imperial Parliament." || 7. In pursuance of these powers we, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, transmit to Your Majesty the said Constitution and the said Constitution amended as aforesaid, and pray that, upon the transmission to Your Majesty of joint or separate Addresses from the Houses of Parliament of two or more of the other Colonies, namely, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia, Your Majesty may be pleased to cause the accompanying Constitution, amended as aforesaid, to be submitted to the Imperial Parliament that it may be passed into law by the Imperial Parliament for the establishment of an Australian Commonwealth composed of those Colonies which unite with Victoria in a similar prayer to Your Majesty. || All of which we, the Members of the Le