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Title: Geography of South and East Africa; being part 2 of vol. 4 of A historical geography of the British colonies, rev. to 1903, and with chapters on the Transvaal and Orange River Colony added
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Lucas, Charles Prestwood, Sir, 1853-1931
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Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ies which have been formally constitutedBritish colonies ; but these duties are now under the controlof a separate High Commissioner. The Executive Council,by which, as Governor of the Cape, he is advised, consists,for practical purposes, of the Cabinet Ministers of the colony,five or six in number. They are members of one or otherof the two houses of parliament, and may speak in both,but are entitled to vote only in the house of which theyhave been duly elected members. The Upper House isthe Legislative Council, the Lower House is the Houseof Assembly. Members of both houses are elected, theelectorate being the same in either case and the electionbeing by ballot; but the term of membership in the caseof the Legislative Council is seven years, unless Parliamentis previously dissolved, while members of the House ofAssembly are elected only for five years. Members of bothHouses are paid a subsistence allowance. No political dis-tinctions are made on grounds of race or colour, though the
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THE CAPE COLONY 5 education test withholds the vote from the large majority ofthe native population. The qualification for the franchise isBritish nationality by birth or naturalisation, ability to writename, address, and occupation, twelve months residence inthe colony prior to registration, and for that period eitheroccupation of a tenement of an annual value not less than£75, or the receipt in annual wages of not less than £50.Any man who is qualified to be a voter is qualified also tobe a member of the House of Assembly, but members of theLegislative Council must be over thirty years of age andpossessed either of £2,000 in real property alone, or of£4,000 in realty and personalty combined. For the purposes of elections to the Legislative Council,the colony was in 1874 divided into seven electoral provinces,each returning three members. Griqualand West was con-stituted an eighth province in 1880 under the GriqualandWest Annexation Act of 1877, but only returns one memberto thegeographyofsouth00luca

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