Legislative Council Tuesday, Sept. 28
Present—The Governor, the Lord Bishop, the Commander of the Forces, the Colonial Secretary, the Attorney-General, the Collector of Customs, the Auditor-General, Mr. Berry, Mr…
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Council & local affairs, 1841
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Colonial Politics. the Adjournment of Council
ON Tuesday last the Legislative Council was adjourned, and will not meet again till the 28th of December. By that time His Excellency expects to he in possession of…
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Present—The Governor, Bishop Broughton, the Commander of the Forces, the Colonial Secretary, the Attorney General, the Collector of Customs, the Auditor General, Messrs. Berry, Jones, Blaxland,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Domestic Intelligence. Legislative Council. Tuesday, September 28
PRESENT--The Governor, the Bishop, the Commander of the Forces the Colonial Secretary, the Attorney-General, the Collector of Customs, the Auditor-General, Mr. Berry, Mr. Jones,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →British Guiana. Memorial, &C., &c. To the Queen's most excellent Majesty, in council assembled
The humble petition of her Majesty's undersigned Roman Catholic, Protestant, and other subjects in the colony of British Guiana, on the continent of South America,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Legislative Council. Anno Shinto, Victoriæ Reginæ. No. 6. "An Act to prohibit Shooting for Sport, Pleasure, or profit, on Sunday."
WHEREAS the practice of shooting, on the Lord's Day, at pigeon matches, and for pleasure or profit, greatly prevails in some parts of the colony, to the manifest dishonour of religion;…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Legislative Council. Anno Quinto, Victoria Reginae No. 6. "An Act to prohibit Shooting for Sport, Pleasure, or profit, on Sunday."
Whereas the practice the Shooting, on the Lord's Day, at pigeon matches, and for pleasure or profit, greatly prevails in some parts of the colony. to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Council Papers. Immigration. Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Immigration Committee. the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Australia in the Chair. Tursday June 15, 1841
Sir Thomas Livingston Mitchell, Knight, Surveyor-General of the Colony, called in and examined:— 1. THE Committee have requested your…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Council Papers. Immigration, 1841. Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Immigration Committee. [Continued.] Friday, June 25, 1841
John Lord, Esq., of Sydney, Merchant and Landowner, called in and examined:— 1. THE Committee understand that you have been for some time in the habit of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Council Papers. Immigration, 1841. Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Immigration Committee. [Continued.] Tuesday, July 6, 1841. Stewart Ryrie, Esq., called in and examined:—
1. HAVE you been long and extensively engaged in sheep farming? For the last fourteen years, to a considerable extent. 2. In what manner have you, up to this…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Council of Discipline of the National Guard. " the Last Infirmity of Noble Minds."
President --Wherefore have you twice successively failed to mount guard, M. Coupe ? Coupe.--Because for ten years that I have been parading up and down, like a bear with a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ENCLOSURE 1. Resolutions of the Legislative Council, on the subject of Immigration to New South Wales, 23rd October, 1840
1. Resolved, that this Council having had under consideration the report presented on the 2nd ultimo by the committee appointed to inquire into, and report on, the subject of…
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By His Excellency Sir George Gipps, Knight, Captain-General and Governorin-Chief of the Territory of New South Wales and its Dependencies, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Council [?] Bass' Strait. Report From the Committee on Light Houses Proposed to Be Eregted in Bass' Strait, 1841
THE Committee appointed on the 22nd of June 1841, to take into consideration, and report upon, a pronosition made to His Excellency the Governor cf New South Wales, by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Council Papers. Report From the Committee on Lighthouses Proposed to Be Erected in Bass's Strait, 1841. The Committee appointed on the 22nd June, 1841, to take into consideration, and report upon, a proposition made to his excellency the Governor of New South Wales, by the government of Van Diemen's Land, for the erection of Lighthouses in Bass's Strait, with instructions to examine evidence, if necessary, having carefully considered the matter referred to them, have agreed to the following Report:—
Your committee have experienced some difficulty in finding persons sufficiently conversant with the navigation of Bass's Strait to afford them information on the subject referred to them, but they have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Council Papers. Immigration, 1841. [Continued.] Thursday, July 8, 1841
Major Edmund Lockyer, of Ermington, in the County of Cumberland, and of Lockyers-leigh, in the County of Argyle, called in and examined:—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Council Papers. Immigration.—1841. [Continued.] Wednesday, July 14, 1841. Robert Scott, of Glendon, Esq., called in and examined:—
1. You have been engaged and are still engaged in sheep farming? Yes, very extensively, in the Darlington District, on the Hunter's River; it is about eighteen…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Council Papers. Immigration.—1841. (Continued.) (CIRCULAR.)
"Replies to the following Circular Letter on the subject of the Aborigines, addressed to gentlemen residing too remote from Sydney, to expect the favour of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Council Papers. Immigration.—1841. {Continued.) John Rae, Esq., Hume River. 20th July, 1841
1. I HAVE been constantly in the habit of employing the native blacks upon the different establishments under my superintendence…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Council Papers. Immigration.—1841. (Concluded.) John Peter, Esq., YASS, 21st July, 1841
1. I HAVE. 2. I have sometimes had as many as 20 employed at one time, and generally have about seven; of these there are only six…
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