III.  Afrika.  958  152.  Transvaal.

The  constitution,  appointment,  and  powers  of  the  Legislative  Council  now
subsisting  shall  continue  in  force  until  the  date  of  the  nomination  of  Members  for
election  to  the  Legislative  Assembly  and  no  longer.

Legislative  Couneil.

II.  The  Legislative  Council  shall  consist  of  fifteen  Members,  who  shall  be
summoned  in  the  case  of  the  first  Council  by  the  Governor,  and  if  any  vacancy  shall
occur  in  the  said  first  or  in  any  subsequent  Council  a  Member  shall  be  appointed
to  fill  the  said  vacancy  by  the  Governor  in  Council  until  the  completion  of  the  period
for  which  the  person  in  whose  place  he  is  appointed  would  have  held  office.  Members
  of  the  Council  shall  be  appointed  in  Our  name  by  instruments  under  the  Public
Seal  of  the  Colony.

III.  No  person  shall  be  summoned  unless  he  shall  be  of  the  age  of  30  years
or  upwards,  nor  unless  he  shall  have  resided  in  the  Colony  for  three  years,  nor  unless
he  shall  be  qualified  to  be  registered  as  a  voter  for  some  electoral  division  of  the
Colony.

IV.  Any  Member  of  the  Legislative  Council  may  resign  his  seat  therein,  by
writing  under  his  hand,  addressed  to  the  Governor;  and  upon  the  receipt  of  such
resignation  by  the  Governor  the  seat  of  such  Member  shall  become  vacant.

V.—(1).  The  Governor  in  Council  may  appoint  one  Member  of  the  Legislative
Couneil  to  be  President  thereof,  and  may  remove  him  and  appoint  another  in  his
stead;  and  the  President  may  at  any  time  take  part  in  any  debate  or  discussion  in
the  said  Council.

(2.)  In  the  absence  of  the  President  some  Member  elected  by  the  Legislative
Council  shall  preside.

VI.  The  Legislative  Council  shall  not  be  competent  to  proceed  to  the  despatch
of  business  unless  six  Members  shall  be  present.

VI.—(1.)  The  Members  of  the  first  Legislative  Council  shall  hold  office  for
five  years,  unless  before  that  time  a  law  shall  have  come  into  effect  providing  for  the
election  of  Members  of  the  Legislative  Council.

(2.)  If  no  such  law  shall  have  come  into  effect,  then,  on  the  expiration  of  the
said  period  of  five  years,  a  fresh  Legislative  Council  shall  be  summoned  by  the
Governor  in  Council,  and  so  in  like  manner  every  five  years  until  such  a  law  shall
have  come  into  effect.

(3.)  It  shall  be  lawful  at  any  time,  after  four  years  from  the  date  of  the  first
meeting  of  the  Council,  for  the  Legislature  to  pass  a  law  providing  for  the  election
of  Members  of  the  Legislative  Council,  und  thereupon,  subject  to  the  provisions  of
such  law,  the  then  existing  Legislative  Council  shall  be  dissolved;  and  thereafter
all  Members  of  the  Legislative  Council  shall  be  elected,  and  shall  possess  such  qualifications,
  and  shall  be  elected  in  such  manner,  by  such  persons,  and  for  such  periods,
as  may  have  been  prescribed  by  the  said  law.