63S ADELAIDE AND VICINITY Appendix E States iiiav nnl rai$e fore**. Taxation of properly of Coinnionu'eftlth or Slate. StAte« not to coin money. Conunon wealth not to Itviiilate ill res|iect of relijrion. Ri);hts of residents in State*!. Reco}niilioii of laws, etc., of Slates. l*roiectioii of Slates from invasion ninl violence. Custody of offendei'S atrainst laws of the Coininnnwealth. 114. A State shall not, without the consent of the Parliament of the Commonwealth, raise or maintain any naval or military force, or impo-^e any tax on property of any kind belonging to the Commonwealth, nor shall the Commonwealth impose any tax on property of any kind belonging to a State. 115. A State shall not coin money, nor make anything but gold and silver coin a legal tender in payment of debts. 1 16. The Commonwealth shall not make any law for establishing any religion, or for imposing any religious observance, or for prohibiting the free exercise of any religion, and no religious test shall be required as a qualification for any office or public trust under the Commonwealth. 117. A subject of the Queen, resident in any State, shall not be subject in any other State to any disability or discrimination which would not be equally applicable to him if he were a subject of the Queen resident in such other State. I 18. Full faith and credit shall be given, throughout the Commonwealth to the laws, the public Acts and records, and the judicial proceedings of every State. 1 19. The Commonwealth shall protect every State against invasion and, on the application of the Executive Government of the State, against domestic violence. 120. Every State shall make provision for the detention in its prisons of persons accused or convicted of offences against the laws of the Commonwealth, and for the punishment of persons convicted of such offences, and the Parliament of the Commonwealth may make laws to give effect to this provision. ClIAF. VI. New .States. Kew States may be adinilteii or est.iitlished (Government of territories. Alteration of limits of State*. Foniiation of new SUtes. CHAPTER VI. NEW STATES. 13 1. The Parliament may admit to the Commonwealth or establish new Stales, and may upon such admission or establishment make or impose such terms and conditiof.s, including the extent of representation in either House of the Parliament, as it thinks lit. 122. The Parliament may make laws for the government of any territory surrendered by any State to and accepted by the Commonwealth, or of any territory placed by the Queen under the authority of and accepted by the Commonwealth, or otherwise acquired by the Commonwealth, and may allow the representation of such territory in either House of the Parliatnent to the extent and on the terms which it thinks fit. 123. The Parliament of the Commonwealth may, with the consent of the Parliament of a State, and the approval of the majority of the electors of the State voting upon the question, increase, diminish, or otherwise alter the limits of the State, upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed on, and may, with the like consent, make provision respecting the effect and operation of any increase or diminution or alteration of territory in relation to any State affected. 124. A new State may be formed by separation of territory from a State, but only with the consent of the Parliament thereof, and a new State may be formed by the union of two or more States or parts of States, but only with the consent of the Parliaments of the States affected. Chap. vii. MlSCELIJlNEOUS. Heat of Government. CHAPTER VII. MISCELLANEOUS. 125. The seat of Government of the Commonwealth shall be determined by the Parliament, and shall be within territory which shall have been granted to or acquired by the Commonwealth, and shall be vested in and belong to the Commonwealth, and shall be in the State of New South Wales, and be distant not less than one hundred miles from Sydney. Such territory shall contain an area of not less than one hundred square miles, and such portion
