The Statesman's Year-book, Том 37

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Frederick Martin, Sir John Scott Keltie, Isaac Parker Anderson Renwick, Mortimer Epstein, Sigfrid Henry Steinberg, John Paxton, Brian Hunter
St. Martin's Press, 1900

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Страница 901 - Each deputy has a remuneration of about 10s. a day during 'the .session. The annual session lasts three months, and fresh elections must take place at the end of every four years. In case of dissolution, a new Parliament must be called together immediately.
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