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A Guide to New South Wales State Archives relating to Responsible Government
CGS 906,
[4/744.1]
1864 General Elections, 1858-65
The majority of the papers date from 1864-65.
Includes papers relating to: Returning Officers (recommendations
for appointment, appointment of, resignation of); declarations of
Returning Officers and Presiding Officers; requests for copies of
the Electoral Act, instructions, ballot papers and forms, circular re
arrangements for forthcoming election, etc; additional ballot
boxes; advertising in local papers; printing of electoral lists; the
receipt of writs of election, commissions, ballot papers,
declarations etc; and, to the return of writs.
Also included are: a manuscript return showing the Electoral Rolls
printed, and the number of names on each Roll, for the year 186465; printed return Electoral Rolls - Number of Electors in each
district for 1863-64; printed return Electoral Rolls - Number of
Electors in the Gold Fields Districts, for 1863-4; alphabetical list of
Members of the Legislative Assembly of 18 October 1864
(annotated with the names of Returning Officers); copy of the
Government Gazette of 11 November 1864, containing "Writs of
Elections", notifying arrangements for the General Election, and a
Proclamation calling together a Legislative Assembly and requiring
the inhabitants, duly qualified, to proceed to the election of
Members to serve in the Legislative Assembly; and the Colonial
Secretary form letter of 11 November 1864 transmitting the Writ
of Election.
The bundle also contains a number of miscellaneous papers
relating to electoral matters, dating from 1858 to 1862, many of
which relate to the Gold Fields. These include: copy of The
Electoral Act of 1858 (otherwise known as the Electoral Law
Amendment Act); Colonial Secretary's Office circular of
1 December 1858 about the Act to amend the electoral law just
passed; Colonial Secretary's Office circulars of 1859 and 1860 to
Returning Officers for the Gold Fields, and of 17 November 1860 to
Returning Officers concerning the writ for election; copy of The
Gold Fields Act of 1861, 25 Vic No.4; The Gold Fields Act of 1861,
and Regulations Founded Thereunder, 2nd edition 1864; printed
Schedule of Proclaimed Gold Fields, showing the Gold Fields
Electoral Districts within which each is situated; Parliamentary
paper Electoral District of the Tumut (Irregular Election for), a
return to an Address from the Legislative Assembly 1 June 1860;
and various Proclamations, 1859-61.
1864 Legislative Assembly and Council — LA 64/88
LA 64/88 is an Address from the Legislative Assembly dated
18 March 1864 requesting returns showing the number of electors
according to their respective qualifications on the rolls in each
district under The Electoral Act of 1851, in terms of the
Constitution Act of 1855, and under the Electoral Law Amendment
Act of 1858.
CGS 905,
LA 64/88 in
[4/541]
Included with LA 64/88 is an earlier Address of 31 October 1856,
LA 56/29, in which the Legislative Assembly asked for a return
showing the number of electors in the several Electoral Districts of
the Colony on 1 September 1856 (distinguishing the number of
Electors in the respective wards, hamlets, boroughs or Police
Districts, comprised in each Electoral District; and showing also,
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