the Dutch language (one of which copies shall be signed Governor-General), to be enrolled of record in the office Registrar of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Co South Africa; and such copies shall be conclusive evidenc the provisions of such ordinance, and, in case of conflict be the two copies thus deposited, that signed by the Gov General shall prevail. Miscellaneous. 92.-(1.) In each province there shall be an audi accounts to be appointed by the Governor-General in Cour (2.) No such auditor shall be removed from office exce the Governor-General in Council for cause assigned, which be communicated by message to both Houses of Parli within one week after the removal, if Parliament be then s and, if Parliament be not sitting, then within one week aft commencement of the next ensuing session. (3.) Each such auditor shall receive out of the Consol Revenue Fund such salary as the Governor-General in Co with the approval of Parliament, shall determine. (4.) Each such auditor shall examine and audit the ac of the province to which he is assigned subject to such re tions and orders as may be framed by the Governor-Gene Council and approved by Parliament, and no warrant sign the administrator authorizing the issuing of money shall effect unless countersigned by such auditor. 93. Notwithstanding anything in this Act containe powers, authorities, and functions lawfully exercised a establishment of the Union by divisional or municipal cou or any other duly constituted local authority, shall be remain in force until varied or withdrawn by Parliament a provincial council having power in that behalf. 94. The seats of provincial government shall be- For Natal, Pietermaritzburg; For the Transvaal, Pretoria: For the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein. PART VI.-The Supreme Court of South Africa. 93. There shall be a Supreme Court of South Africa, sisting of a Chief Justice of South Africa, the ordinary Ju of Appeal, and the other Judges of the several divisions o Supreme Court of South Africa in the provinces. 96. There shall be an Appellate Division of the Sup Court of South Africa, consisting of the Chief Justice of S Africa, two ordinary Judges of Appeal, and two additional Ju of Appeal. Such additional Judges of Appeal shall be assi by the Governor-General in Council to the Appellate Div from any of the provincial or local divisions of the Sup Court of South Africa, but shall continue to perform their duties as Judges of their respective divisions when their attendance is not required in the Appellate Division. 97. The Governor-General in Council may, during the absence, illness, or other incapacity of the Chief Justice of South Africa, or of any ordinary or additional Judge of Appeal, appoint any other Judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa to act temporarily as such Chief Justice, ordinary Judge of Appeal, or additional Judge of Appeal, as the case may be. 98.-(1.) The several Supreme Courts of the Cape of Good Hope. Natal, and the Transvaal, and the High Court of the Orange River Colony shall, on the establishment of the Union, become provincial divisions of the Supreme Court of South Africa within their respective provinces, and shall each be presided over by a Judge-President. (2.) The Court of the eastern districts of the Cape of Good Hope, the High Court of Griqualand, the High Court of Witwatersrand, and the several circuit Courts, shall become local divisions of the Supreme Court of South Africa within the respective areas of their jurisdiction as existing at the establishment of the Union. (3.) The said provincial and local divisions, referred to in this Act as superior Courts, shall, in addition to any original jurisdiction exercised by the corresponding Courts of the Colonies at the establishment of the Union, have jurisdiction in all matters (a) In which the Government of the Union or a person suing or being sued on behalf of such Government is a party; (b.) In which the validity of any provincial ordinance shall come into question. (4.) Unless and until Parliament shall otherwise provide, the said superior Courts shall, mutatis mutandis, have the same jurisdiction in matters affecting the validity of elections of members of the House of Assembly and provincial councils as the corresponding Courts of the Colonies have at the establishment of the Union in regard to Parliamentary elections in such Colonies respectively. 99. All Judges of the Supreme Courts of the Colonies, including the High Court of the Orange River Colony, holding office at the establishment of the Union shall on such establishment become Judges of the Supreme Court of South Africa, assigned to the divisions of the Supreme Court in the respective provinces, and shall retain all such rights in regard to salaries and pensions as they may possess at the establishment of the Union. The Chief Justices of the Colonies holding office at the establishment of the Union shall on such establishment become the Judges-President of the divisions of the Supreme Court in the respective provinces, but shall so long as they hold that office retain the title of Chief Justice of their respective provinces. 100, The Chief Justice of South Africa, the ordinary Judges of Appeal, and all other Judges of the Supreme Court of South Africa to be appointed after the establishment of the Union, shall be appointed by the Governor-General in Council, and shall receive such remuneration as Parliament shall prescribe, and their remuneration shall not be diminished during their continuance in office. 101. The Chief Justice of South Africa and other Judges of the Supreme Court of South Africa shall not be removed from office except by the Governor-General in Council on an address from both Houses of Parliament in the same session praying for such removal on the ground of misbehaviour or incapacity. 102. Upon any vacancy occurring in any division of the Supreme Court of South Africa, other than the Appellate Division, the Governor-General in Council may, in case he shall consider that the number of Judges of such Court may with advantage to the public interest be reduced, postpone filling the vacancy until Parliament shall have determined whether such reduction shall take place. 103. In every civil case in which, according to the law in force at the establishment of the Union, an appeal might have been made to the Supreme Court of any of the Colonies from a superior Court in any of the Colonies, or from the High Court of Southern Rhodesia, the appeal shall be made only to the Appellate Division, except in cases of orders or judgments given by a single Judge, upon applications by way of motion or petition or on summons for provisional sentence or judgments as to costs only, which by law are left to the discretion of the Court. The appeal from any such orders or judgments, as well as any appeal in criminal cases from any such superior Court, or the special reference by any such Court of any point of law in a criminal case, shall be made to the provincial division corresponding to the Court which before the establishment of the Union would have had jurisdiction in the matter. There shall be no further appeal against any judgment given on appeal by such provincial division except to the Appellate Division, and then only if the Appellate Division shall have given special leave to appeal. 104. In every case, civil or criminal. in which at the establishment of the Union an appeal might have been made from the Supreme Court of any of the Colonies or from the High Court of the Orange River Colony to the King in Council, the appeal shall be made only to the Appellate Division : Provided that the right of appeal in any civil suit shall not be limited by reason only of the value of the matter in dispute or the amount claimed or awarded in such suit. 105. In every case, civil or criminal, in which at the establishment of the Union an appeal might have been made from a Court of resident Magistrate or other inferior Court to a superior Court in any of the Colonies the appeal shall be made to the corresponding division of the Supreme Court of South Africa; but there shall be no further appeal against any judgment given on appeal by such division except to the Appellate Division, and then only if the Appellate Division shall have given special leave to appeal. 106. There shall be no appeal from the Supreme Court of South Africa or from any division thereof to the King in Council, but nothing herein contained shall be construed to impair any right which the King in Council may be pleased to exercise to grant special leave to appeal from the Appellate Division to the King in Council. Parliament may make laws limiting the matters in respect of which such special leave may be asked, but Bills containing any such limitation shall be reserved by the Governor-General for the signification of His Majesty's pleasure: Provided that nothing in this section shall affect any right of appeal to His Majesty in Council from any judgment given by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court under or in virtue of the Colonial Courts of Admiralty Act, 1890.* 107. The Chief Justice of South Africa and the ordinary Judges of Appeal may, subject to the approval of the GovernorGeneral in Council, make rules for the conduct of the proceedings of the Appellate Division and prescribing the time and manner of making appeals thereto. Until such rules shall have been promulgated, the rules in force in the Supreme Court of the Cape of Good Hope at the establishment of the Union shall, mutatis mutandis, apply. 108. The Chief Justice and other Judges of the Supreme Court of South Africa may, subject to the approval of the Governor-General in Council, frame rules for the conduct of the proceedings of the several provincial and local divisions. Until such rules shall have been promulgated, the rules in force at the establishment of the Union in the respective Courts which become divisions of the Supreme Court of South Africa shall continue to apply therein. 109. The Appellate Division shall sit in Bloemfontein, but may from time to time for the convenience of suitors hold its sittings at other places within the Union. 110. On the hearing of appeals from a Court consisting of two or more Judges, five Judges of the Appellate Division shall form a quorum, but, on the hearing of appeals from a single Judge, three Judges of the Appellate Division shall form a quorum. No Judge shall take part in the hearing of any appeal against the judgment given in a case heard before him. 111. The process of the Appellate Division shall run throughout the Union, and all its judgments or orders shall have full force and effect in every province, and shall be executed in like manner as if they were original judgments or orders of the provincial division of the Supreme Court of South Africa in such province. 53 & 54 Vict., c. 27. Vol. LXXXII, page 672. 112. The registrar of every provincial division of the Supreme Court of South Africa, if thereto requested by any party in whose favour any judgment or order has been given or made by any other division, shall, upon the deposit with him of an authenticated copy of such judgment or order and on proof that the same remains unsatisfied, issue a writ or other process for the execution of such judgment or order, and thereupon such writ or other process shall be executed in like manner as if it had been originally issued from the division of which he is registrar. 113. Any provincial or local division of the Supreme Court of South Africa to which it may be made to appear that any civil suit pending therein may be more conveniently or fitly heard or determined in another division may order the same to be removed to such other division, and thereupon such lastmentioned division may proceed with such suit in like manner as if it had been originally commenced therein. 114. The Governor-General in Council may appoint a registrar of the Appellate Division and such other officers thereof as shall be required for the proper dispatch of the business thereof. 115.—(1.) The laws regulating the admission of advocates and attorneys to practise before any superior Court of any of the Colonies shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to the admission of advocates and attorneys to practise in the corresponding division of the Supreme Court of South Africa. (2.) All advocates and attorneys entitled at the establishment of the Union to practise in any superior Court of any of the Colonies shall be entitled to practise as such in the corresponding division of the Supreme Court of South Africa. (3.) All advocates and attorneys entitled to practise before any provincial division of the Supreme Court of South Africa shall be entitled to practise before the Appellate Division. 116. All suits, civil or criminal, pending in any superior Court of any of the Colonies at the establishment of the Union shall stand removed to the corresponding division of the Supreme Court of South Africa, which shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine the same, and all judgments and orders of any superior Court of any of the Colonies given or made before the establishment of the Union shall have the same force and effect as if they had been given or made by the corresponding division of the Supreme Court of South Africa. All appeals to the King in Council, which shall be pending at the establishment of the Union, shall be proceeded with as if this Act had not been passed. PART VII.-Finance and Railways. 117. All revenues, from whatever source arising, over which the several Colonies have at the establishment of the Union power of appropriation, shall vest in the Governor-General in Council. There shall be formed a railway and harbour fund, into which shall be paid all revenues raised or received by the |