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A Guide to New South Wales State Archives relating to Responsible Government
Executive Council concurred with the view of the Select Committee
and advised that Mr North be superseded. Consequently John
Rankin was appointed Returning Officer in place of Joseph North.
Almost at the same time as the Select Committee submitted its
report, the Committee of Elections and Qualifications finished
deliberating on a petition from William Butler Tooth which had
been referred to it on 13 April 1858. In his petition Mr Tooth
complained that no return had been made to the writ for the
election of a member for the Electoral District of Moreton, Wide
Bay, Burnett and Maranoa, the United Pastoral Districts, and that
he was duly elected and ought to have been returned for this
District. The Committee recommended that:
• the writ for this Electoral District be returned to the Returning
Officer with instructions for him to endorse on it the name of
the person elected for the District
• the Returning Officer be instructed to forward to the Clerk of
the Assembly the Voting Papers, in accordance with the 46th
clause of the Electoral Act; and that
• the time for presenting petitions against the validity of the
return of the person whose name was endorsed on the writ be
held to date from the day of the return of the writ.
The writ was returned endorsed as directed by the Returning
Officer in his letter of 12 June 1858.
Included are: the May 1858 printed Report from Select Committee
on the Special Return to Writ (Moreton, Wide Bay, Burnett,
Maranoa, Port Curtis, and Leichhardt) together with the
Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of evidence , and
Appendix; the May 1858 printed Special Report from the
Committee of Elections and Qualifications, embodying, for opinion
of the House, certain resolutions in reference to the special return
made to the writ for the election and return of a member to serve
in the Legislative Assembly for the Electoral District of Moreton,
Wide Bay, Burnett, and Maranoa, with minutes of the proceedings
of the Committee, and appendices thereto; Votes and Proceedings
of the Legislative Assembly No.44 of 15 June 1858 and No.48 of
22 June 1858, the latter showing that William Butler Tooth took
his seat as the Member for this Electoral District; resolutions of the
Legislative Assembly; extracts from minutes of the Executive
Council and other papers.
1859 General elections, 1858-59
This bundle includes papers relating to the appointment of
Returning Officers and of Collectors under the new Act;
acknowledgements of receipts of writs of election (May 1859) for
the election of one or more members to serve in the Legislative
Assembly; requests for additional ballot boxes, ballot papers, copy
of the new Electoral Act and for instructions; acknowledgements of
receipt of commissions of appointment as Returning Officers,
instructions, electoral rolls, ballot boxes; printing of electoral rolls;
accounts for printing; acceptances and declining appointments as
Returning Officers; recommending persons as Returning Officers;
resigning appointment or position; appointment of Deputies;
forwarding electoral roll; reporting arrangements made for the
election; transmitting election papers; and notifying the results of
election.
State Records Authority of New South Wales
CGS 905,
[4/3413.1]
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