Legislative Council. (Abridged from the Sydney Morning Herald.) Friday, October 30, 1846
The SPEAKER took his seat at the usual hour. His Excellency the Governor's assent to the following bills was then announced:…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hunter Valley · Council & local affairs
Council & local affairs, 1846
68 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 4 of 4
Council Paper. Steam Communication with England. Report From the Select Committee on Steam Communication with England
The select committee of the Legislative Council, appointed on the 16th September, 1846, "to take into consideration the best means of establishing a steam communication between…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Council Papers. Party Processions Act. An Act to prevent for a limited time, party processions, and certain other public exhibitions, in the colony of New South Wales. Anno Decimo Victoriæ Reginæ.—No. 1. [Assented to 27th October, 1846.] Preamble.—What processions or assemblies shall be unlawful.—Proviso
Whereas there are in the territory of New South Wales various societies or associations, whereof some partake, or are supposed by many persons, to partake of a political…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Mercury. Saturday, November 7, 1846. the Council and the Transportation Question
THE Legislative Council have acted in a very unusual way, at least, both with regard to the Report of the Transportation Committee in favour of a renewal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland District Council
The Maitland District Council assembled at the council chambers, East Maitland, yesterday, pursuant to adjournment, for the despatch of business. Present: The Warden,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Council Paper. Revival of Transportation. Report From the Select Committee on the Renewal of Transportation. The Select Committee of the Legislative Council, appointed on the 13th instant "to enquire into, and report upon, the Despatch of the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, to Governor Sir Charles Augustus Fitz Roy, dated 30th April, 1846, respecting the renewal of Transportation to this Colony," hereto appended, have agreed to the following Report
In entering upon the wide field of enquiry which the above despatch opens out, your committee have had no hesitation, at this late period of the session, in abstaining…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →British Extracts. Judicial Committee of Privy Council. Wednesday, June 24, 1846. (From the Times, June 25). John Walpole Willis V. Sir George Gipps, Governor of New South Wales
This was an appeal from an order of amotion from the office of judge of the district of Port Phillip, in the colony of New South Wales, and of the Supreme Court of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Maitland Mercury. Wednesday, December 9, 1846. the Transportation Report.—police and Gaol Expenditure. "7th.—That two-thirds of the expense of police, gaols, and the criminal administration of justice, be paid by the home government; but that on the relinquishment of the land fund, and all other revenues or droits of the crown, to the appropriation of the Governor and Legislative Council, the whol[?] of this branch of convict expenditure be assumed by the colony, with a view to aid the British government in defraying the cost of the free immigration stipulated for in the second and third conditions. "The stipulation contained in the seventh condition, that two-thirds of the expenditure of police and gaols, and the criminal administration of justice, shall be paid by the British treasury, is merely an adoption of the principle which it is understood the British government has concurred in, as a just apportionment of this expenditure in Van Diemen's Land. This, too, is the principle of apportionment insisted upon in the General Grievance Report of the session of 1844, and upon which, since the breach of the compact under which the colony assumed this expenditure as an equivalent for the surrender to it of the land fund, a debt has accrued to the colony, amounting in that year, in round numbers, to seven hundred and ninety-three thousand and thirty-four pounds, and since considerably augmented by the convict expenditure, which we have unjustly been compelled to bear, notwithstanding our repeated protestations against it. No question can exist that, up to the present time, two-thirds at least of this most onerous charge, which has, since the report of that committee, accumulated in the whole to about nine hundred and fifty thousand pounds, is occasioned by the convict and freed population; and no proposition can be more reasonable or just than that this amount, which is in fact a convict charge solely, should be paid by the British treasury, until it cease to exist by the gradual disappearance from our population of the class that occasions it. In the event of the proposed renewal of transportation, your committee presume that the assumption of this charge would be a condition readily conceded, even though it were not an article in this new compact; and they draw attention to its present amount, which however will rapidly augment on the renewal of transportation, to shew how much they are willing, in this shape, to contribute to the free immigration which is to be a simultaneous measure."—TRANSPORTATION Committee's Report, 1846
IN 1835, when the British government transferred the charge for police and gaols from the imperial to the colonial treasury, the annual expenditure…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →