The new Constitution, while rejecting any nominated ele- ment in
the Legislature other than the actual members of the Administration, provides for a Legislative Assembly con- sisting of the Lieutenant-Governor, between thirty and thirty- five elected, and between six and nine official Members. The debates and proceedings are to be conducted in English, but any Member may speak in Dutch by leave of the President. The salaries of the Lieutenant-Governor, Judges of the Supreme Court, and members of the Executive Council, together with the sums payable by the Transvaal to the Inter-Colonial Council, will be provided out of the Civil List, which has been reserved, and is exempt from the control of the new Assembly. Measures for the appropriation of revenue and the imposition of taxes can only be initiated by the Lieutenant-Governor, but all ordinary legislation will be controlled by the elective majority. The franchise is con- ferred on every burgher of the late Republic entitled to vote for the First Volksraad, and every white subject occupying premises of the annual value of 210 or capital value of £100, or earning 2100 a year. The electoral districts will be framed upon the basis of the number of voters, and not of the white inhabitants, as was the case under the Republic, and a Corn.. mission will be appointed to draw their boundaries. Finally, the constituencies will be redistributed every four years in accordance with the fluctuation in the number of voters as established by the biennial registration lists.
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