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 210 THE BRITISH EMPIRE :— UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA

THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA.

Constitution and Government.

rrh tt • „f Qm.rt Africa is constituted under the South Africa Act, 1QOQ it Edw 7 C 9] ^p^edb; the Parliament of the United Kingdom on SelmbS 1909 1. ulSr the terms of that Act the self-governing Colonies September ^O.iyuy.u Transvaal, and the Orange River

of the Cape of Good Hope, JNat a legislative union under one

for the Union and members of the executive Council.

be a session of ParBa«aent_ •"J*/**,. Jor ten yeara aIte r the estab-

The Senate .consul. o ^^i ™inl, to their acquaintance

"•' ft SSTnTlS Sec?r wa, nal hl rI„rt°o the ttaoli'shrnent of

Division, in numbers as follow. :-The Cape o G. 1 op, 61 .^ ■ £

Transvaal, 49 i Orange Frco State, 17. 1 1 >r nam cut arj

qualifications a. existing in the several colonies a 11 11; ,

L* electoral district in each provmoc ,c »»»»'■ ."'"". ^, ls ,,. r ,., l vol(, r ,

a British subject of European .lesce.iual^ < a a ■ ^

S^XT^'*^*" fil U o7?t. noting -to'.

™-> «■;--* **g-*js*u c &5 fti:

Allegiance. A member of one tiOMe^noi i» o(

but a Minister of State may «t ^and .peak, but not ™te *u ^ which he is not a member lo ho J ™ °™J I ^y „,- ,.;„„„

^.^arfSSU ■'JSrSraBl^. Certain disaoibu,, I