Australia -- Politics and government; Great Britain -- Colonies -- Australia
21. Naturalisation and aliens.
22. Foreign corporations, and trading or financial corporations, formed
in any state or part of the commonwealth.
23. Marriage and divorce.
24. Parental rights, and the custody and guardianship of infants.
25. The service and execution throughout the commonwealth of the civil
and criminal process and judgments of the courts of the states.
26. The recognition throughout the commonwealth of the laws, the public
acts and records, and the judicial proceedings of the states.
27. Immigration and emigration.
28. The influx of criminals.
29. External affairs and treaties.
30. The relations of the commonwealth to the islands of the Pacific.
31. The control and regulation of the navigation of the River Murray,
and the use of the waters thereof from where it first forms the
boundary between Victoria and New South Wales to the sea.
32. The control of railways with respect to transport for the military
purposes of the commonwealth.
33. The taking over by the commonwealth, with the consent of the state,
of the whole or any part of the railways of any state or states, upon
such terms as may be arranged between the commonwealth and the state.
34. Railway construction and extension with the consent of any state or
states concerned.
35. Matters referred to the Parliament of the commonwealth by the
Parliament or Parliaments of any state or states, but so that the law
shall extend only to the state or states by whose Parliament or
Parliaments the matter was referred, and to such other states as may
afterwards adopt the law.
36. The exercise within the commonwealth, at the request or with the
concurrence of the Parliaments of all the states concerned, of any
legislative powers which can at the establishment of this constitution
be exercised only by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, or by the
Federal Council of Australasia.
37. Any matters necessary for, or incidental to, the carrying {241}
into execution of the foregoing powers or of any other powers vested by
this constitution in the Parliament or the Executive Government of the
commonwealth, or in any department or officer thereof.
All matters not mentioned above, such as land settlement, railway
construction, &c., are to remain vested in the Parliaments of the
several states. Each state shall retain its local Parliament and have
a Governor, who is to be appointed by the Crown, and communicate direct
with the Crown as at present.
On the establishment of the commonwealth the control of the following
departments will be taken over by the Federal Government, and the
commonwealth will assume the obligations of any state or states with
respect to such matters:--
Customs and excise.
Posts and telegraphs.
Military and naval defence.
Ocean beacons, buoys, lighthouses.
Quarantine.
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