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t shall give or withhold the assent of Her Majesty to Bills passed by the Irish Legislative Body, and shall exercise the prerogatives of Her Majesty in respect of the summoning, proroguing, and dissolving of the Irish Legislative Body, and any prerogatives the exercise of which may be delegated to him by Her Majesty. [Sidenote: Use of Crown lands by Irish Government.] 8. Her Majesty may, by Order in Council, from time to time place under the control of the Irish Government, for the purposes of that Government, any such lands and buildings in Ireland as may be vested in or held in trust for Her Majesty. _Constitution of Legislative Body._ [Sidenote: Constitution of Irish Legislative Body.] 9.--(1.) The Irish Legislative Body shall consist of a first and second order. (2.) The two orders shall deliberate together, and shall vote together, except that, if any question arises in relation to legislation or to the Standing Orders or Rules of Procedure or to any other matter in that behalf in this Act specified, and such question is to be determined by vote, each order shall, if a majority of the members present of either order demand a separate vote, give their votes in like manner as if they were separate Legislative Bodies; and if the result of the voting of the two orders does not agree the question shall be resolved in the negative. [Sidenote: First order.] 10.--(1.) The first order of the Irish Legislative Body shall consist of one hundred and three members, of whom seventy-five shall be elective members and twenty-eight peerage members. (2.) Each elective member shall at the date of his election and during his period of membership be bona fide possessed of property which-- (a.) if realty, or partly realty and partly personalty, yields two hundred pounds a year or upwards, free of all charges; or (b.) if personalty yields the same income, or is of the capital value of four thousand pounds or upwards, free of all charges. (2.) For the purpose of electing the elective members of the first order of the Legislative Body, Ireland shall be divided into the electoral districts specified in the First Schedule to this Act, and each such district shall return the number of members in that behalf specified in that Schedule. (3.) The elective members shall be elected by the registered electors of each electoral district, and for that purpose a register of e
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