III.  Afrika.  961  152.  Transvaal.

(3.)  The  Governor  in  Council  shall  publish  the  names  and  boundaries  of  the
electoral  divisions,  as  finally  settled  by  the  Commissioners,  in  the  Gazette,  and
thereafter,  until  there  shall  be  another  redivision,  the  electoral  divisions  so  named
and  defined  shall  be  the  electoral  divisions  of  the  Colony,  and  each  such  division
shall  return  one  member  to  the  Legislative  Assembly.

(4)  If  any  discrepancy  shall  arise  between  the  description  of  the  divisions
and  the  aforesaid  map  or  maps,  the  description  shall  prevail.

XVII.  Any  redivision  of  the  Colony  made  as  aforesaid  shall  come  into  operation
at  the  next  general  election  held  after  the  completion  of  the  redivision,  and  not
earlier.

XVIII.—(1.)  Any  person  (save  as  herein  excepted)  who  shall  be  qualified
to  be  registered  as  a  voter  in  and  for  any  electoral  division  shall  be  qualified  and
entitled  to  be  elected  a  Member  of  the  Legislative  Assembly  for  that  or  any  other
electoral  division.

(2.)  No  person  holding  any  office  of  profit  under  the  Crown  within  the  Colony
(other  than  a  Minister  as  hereinafter  defined),  no  unrehabilitated  insolvent,  no
person  whose  estate  shall  be  in  liquidation  under  assignment  in  trust  for  his  creditors,
and  no  person  declared  of  unsound  mind  by  a  competent  Court,  shall  be  eligible  to
be  elected  a  Member  of  the  said  Assembly.

(3.)  The  receipt  of  a  pension  from  the  Crown,  or  by  an  officer  of  Our  naval
or  military  forces  of  retired  or  half  pay,  shall  not  be  deemed  to  be  holding  an  office
of  profit  under  the  Crown.

(4.)  No  person  who  has  acted  as  a  registering  or  revising  officer  in  connection
with  the  framing  or  revision  of  a  voters’  list  for  any  electoral  division  shall  be
eligible  to  be  elected  as  a  member  for  that  division  while  such  list  is  in  force.

XIX.—(1.)  The  Legislative  Assembly  shall,  on  their  first  meeting,  before
proceeding  to  the  despatch  of  any  other  business,  elect  one  of  their  Members  to  be
Speaker  of  the  said  Assembly  (subject  to  confirmation  by  the  Governor)  until  the
dissolution  thereof,  and  in  case  of  vacancy  in  the  office  another  Speaker  shall  be
elected  in  like  manner  and  subject  to  such  confirmation  as  aforesaid.

(2.)  The  seat  of  a  Member  elected  to  be  Speaker  shall  thereupon  become  vacant
and  &amp;  fresh  election  shall  forthwith  be  held  to  fill  the  vacancy,  and  the  Speaker  shall
not  be  a  Member  of  the  Legislative  Assembly  while  he  is  Speaker.

XX.  The  Speaker,  or  in  his  absence  some  Member  elected  by  the  Legislative
Assembly,  shall  preside  at  the  meetings  thereof.

XXI.  The  Legislative  Assembly  shall  not  be  disqualified  from  the  transaction
of  business  on  account  of  any  vacancies  among  the  Members  thereof,  but  the  said
Assembly  shall  not  be  competent  to  proceed  to  the  despatch  of  business  unless
twenty-one  Members  be  present.

XXIl.  Any  Member  of  the  Legislative  Assembly  may  resign  his  seat  therein
by  writing  under  his  hand  addressed  to  the  Speaker,  and  upon  the  receipt  of  such
resignation  by  the  Speaker  the  seat  of  such  Member  shall  become  vacant:

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