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Bights of residents in States. 116. 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 in such other State. Recognition of laws, &0., of States. 117- Full faith and credit shall be given throughout the Commonwealth to the laws, the public,acts, and records, and judicial proceedings, of every State. Pcoteotion of States from invasion and violence. 118. The Commonwealth shall protect every State against invasion and, on the application of the Executive Government of the State, against domestic violence. Custody of offenders against laws of the Commonwealth. 119. 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. CHAPTEE VT. NEW STATES. New States may be admitted or established. 120. The Parliament may admit to the Commonwealth or establish new States, and may upon such admission or establishment make or impose such terms and conditions, including the extent of representation in either House of the Parliament, as it thinks fit. Government of territories* 121. 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 Parliament to the extent and on the terms which it thinks fit. Alteration of limits of States. 122. The Parliament of the Commonwealth may, with the consent v 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 ; 7 Formation of new States. 123. 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. CHAPTEE VII. MISCELLANEOUS. Seat of Government. 124. 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 and shall be vested in and belong to the Commonwealth, and if New South Wales be an original State shall be in that State 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 thereof as shall consist of Crown lands shall be granted to the Commonwealth without any payment therefor. If Victoria be an original State, the Parliament shall sit at Melbourne until it meets at the seat of Government. Power to Her Majesty to authorise Governor-General to appoint deputies. 125. The Queen may authorise the Governor-General to appoint any person, or any persons jointly or severally, to be his deputy or deputies within any part of the Commonwealth, and in that capacity to exercise during the pleasure of the Governor-General such powers and functions of the Governor-General as he thinks fit to assign to such deputy or deputies, subject to any limitations expressed or directions given by the Queen; but the appointment of such deputy or deputies shall not affect the exercise by the Governor-General himself of any power or function. Aborigines not to be oounted in reokoning population. 126- In reckoning the numbers of the people of the Commonwealth, or of a State or other part of the Commonwealth, aboriginal natives shall not be counted. 3—A. 4.