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in  the  manner  hereinafter  provided,  or  may  dissolve  the  Legislative  Assembly,  and
may  simultaneously  dissolve  both  the  Legislative  Council  and  Legislative  Assembly
if  the  Legislative  Council  shall  then  be  an  elected  Council.  But  such  dissolution
shall  not  take  place  within  six  months  before  the  date  of  the  expiry  of  the  Legislative
Assembly  by  effluxion  of  time.

(2.)  If  after  such  dissolution  the  Legislative  Assembly  again  passes  the  proposed
  law,  with  or  without  any  amendments  which  have  been  made,  suggested,  or
agreed  to  by  the  Legislative  Council,  and  the  Legislative  Council  rejects  or  fails  to
pass  it,  or  passes  it  with  amendments  to  which  the  Legislative  Assembly  will  not
agree,  the  Governor  may  convene  a  joint  sitting  of  the  Members  of  the  Legislative
Council  and  of  the  Legislative  Assembly,  at  which  the  Speaker  of  the  Legislative
Assembly  shall  preside.

(3.)  The  Members  present  at  any  joint  sitting  convened  under  either  of  the
preceding  sub-sections,  may  deliberate  and  shall  vote  together  upon  the  proposed
law,  as  last  proposed  by  the  Legislative  Assembly,  and  upon  amendments,  if  any,
which  have  been  made  therein  by  the  one  House  of  the  Legislature  and  not  agreed
to  by  the  other,  and  any  such  amendments  which  are  affirmed  by  an  absolute  majority
of  the  total  number  of  the  Members  of  the  Legislative  Council  and  Legislative  Assembly
  shall  be  taken  to  have  been  carried,  and  if  the  proposed  law,  with  tbe  amendments,
  if  any,  so  carried,  is  affirmed  by  an  absolute  majority  of  the  total  number
of  the  Members  of  the  Legislative  Council  and  Legislative  Assembly,  it  shall  be
taken  to  have  been  duly  passed  by  the  Legislature.

XXXVIII.  When  any  law  has  been  passed  by  the  Legislature  it  shall  be  presented
  for  Our  assent  to  the  Governor,  who  shall  declare  according  to  his  discretion,
but  subject  to  this  Constitution  and  to  any  instructions  in  that  behalf  given  to  him
under  Our  Sign  Manual  and  Signet,  or  through  a  Secretary  of  State,  that  he  assents
in  Our  name,  or  that  he  withholds  assent,  or  that  he  reserves  the  law  for  the  signification
  of  Our  pleasure.

XXXIX.  Unless  he  shall  have  previously  obtained  Our  instructions  upon  such
law  through  a  Secretary  of  State,  or  unless  such  law  shall  contain  a  clause  suspending
  the  operations  of  such  law  until  the  signification  in  the  Colony  of  Our  pleasure
thereupon,

The  Governor  shall  reserve  —

(&amp;.)  Any  law  whereby  person  not  of  European  birth  or  descent  may  be  subjected
  or  made  liable  to  any  disabilities  or  restrictions  to  which  persons  of  European
birth  or  descent  are  not  also  subjected  or  made  liable.

(b.)  Any  law  which  may  repeal  or  alter  any  of  the  provisions  of  tbese  Our
Letters  Patent  or  of  any  Letters  Patent  or  Orders  in  Our  Privy  Council  relating  to
the  Colony.

And  whereas  it  is  Our  will  and  pleasure  that  all  persons  within  Our  dominions
shall  be  free  from  any  conditions  of  employment  or  residence  of  a  servile  character,
the  Governor  shall  reserve  any  law  providing  for  the  introduction  under  contract,
indenture,  or  licence,  of  labourers  into  the  Colony  from  places  outside  South  Africa.