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Churches, 1847

3 stories in Hunter Valley's papers

Government Gazette. Tuesday, May 11, 1847. Church and School Estates.—leases for Seven, Fourteen, and Twenty-one Years

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 15 May 1847 · page 3

On Saturday, the 26th June next, the following lands belonging to the Church and School Estates, will be put up to public auction, at the rear of the Colonial Treasury, at…

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Local News. Free Presbyterian Church. Laying the Foundation Stone

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 7 August 1847 · page 4

On Wednesday, at noon, the foundation stone of a Presbyterian Church in connexion with the Free Church of S[?]otland was laid in West Maitland, the site being close to…

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Council Papers. Free Presbyterian Church Marriage Bill. The S[?]l[?]t Committ[?] of th[?] L[?]gislative Council, appointed on the 24th August, 1847, to consider the bill for rendering valid marriages solemnized by ministers of the Synod of Australia Felix, have agreed to the following report

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 13 October 1847 · page 1

In the opinion of your committee serious doubts may arise as to the validity of marriages solemnized in this colony by ministers ordained by any branch of the Presbyterian…

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