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628 ADELAIDE AND VICINITY Appendix E Allowance to members. Privilege*, etc., of Home*. Rules and orden. 48. Until the Parliament otherwise provides, each senator and each member of the House of Representatives shall receive an allowance of four hundred pounds a year, to be reckoned from the day on which he takes his seat. 49. The powers, privileges, and immunities of the Senate and of the House of Representatives, and of the members ami the Committees of each House, shall be such as are declared by the Parliament, and until declared shall be those of the Commons House of Parliament of the United Kingdom, and of its members and Committees, at the establishment of the Commonwealth. Part v. poweks ok the Parliament. 50. Each House of the Parliament may make rules and orders with respect to — (i.) The mode in which its powers, privileges, and immunities may be exercised and upheld : (11.) The order and conduct of its business and proceedings either separately or jointly with the other House. Part V. — Powers of the Parliament. 51. The Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to make laws for the Uw'i'ariiamenr*"' °' pcace, order, and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to : — (i.) Trade and commerce with other countries, and among the States : (n.) Taxation ; but so as not to discriminate between States or parts of States : (ill.) Bounties on the production or export of goods, but so that such bounties shall be uniform throughout the Commonwealth : (iv.) Borrowing money on the public credit of the Commonwealth : (V.) Postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services : (vi.) The naval and military defence of the Commonwealth and of the several States, and the control of the forces to execute and maintain the laws of the Commonwealth : (vii.) Lighthouses, lightships, beacons, and buoys: (viii.) Astronomical and meteorological observations : (ix.) Quarantine : (X.) Fisheries in Australian waters beyond territorial limits : (xi.) Census and statistics : (xii.) Currency, coinage, and legal tender : (xiii.) Banking, other than State banking ; also State banking extending beyond the limits of the State concerned, the incorporation of banks, and the issue of paper money : (xiv.) Insurance, other than State insurance ; also State insurance extending beyond the limits of the State concerned ; (xv.) Weights and measures : (xvi.) Bills of exchange and promissory notes : (xvii.) Bankruptcy and insolvency : (xviii.) Copyrights, patents of inventions and designs, and trade marks : (xix.) Naturalisation and aliens : (xx.) Foreign corporations, and trading or financial corporations formed within the limits of the Commonwealth : (xxi.) Marriage : (xxii.) Divorce and matrimonial causes ; and in relation thereto, parental rights, and the custody and guardianship of infants : (xxiii.) Invalid and old-age pensions :