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A Guide to New South Wales State Archives relating to Responsible Government
the number of Electors entitled to vote in these subdivisions of
each Electoral District, as freeholders, as householders, as
leaseholders, as pastoral licensees, as recipients of salaries, and
as lodgers). The draft return and the printed return to the Address,
the latter ordered to be printed on 17 March 1857, are also
included.
The bulk of the papers, however, are the replies from the
Returning Officers to the circular letters sent by the Colonial
Secretary's Office, and supporting information.
The dates of the papers are 1856-57 and 1864-65.
1869 Elections
Voting for the General Elections took place between 3 December
1869 and 10 January 1870.
CGS 905,
[4/681]
Box [4/681] comprise the various papers associated with the
administration and running of the General Elections. The papers
relate to: alteration in the date of nomination; appointment or
cancellation of polling places; appointments and resignations of
Returning Officers; electoral lists, including revision of errors in
and appointment of collectors for; expenses; invalid declarations;
protests; acknowledging the receipt of writs; enquiries about
electoral procedures or matters; requests for the supply of ballot
boxes, and for the attendance of Police; returning writs of election
and notifying election results; and, transmitting declarations of
Returning Officers and Poll Clerks, and lists of Presiding Officers.
Other papers include: 25 January 1870 acknowledgement by the
Clerk of the Legislative Assembly that the writs have been
received; minute papers for the Executive Council; state of the poll
for the West Macquarie Electorate; declaration of poll by candidate
for the Upper Hunter; the Returning Officer for Gold Fields West
commenting on press reports concerning the small number of
votes recorded in the late Gold Fields West election; a printed
schedule showing the existing Gold Fields and the Gold Fields
Electoral Districts within which each is situated, transmitted with
Colonial Secretary's Office Circular 69-8629 of 16 November 1869;
and, the Government Gazette of 16 November 1869 giving notice
of the issue of writs of election for a General Election with details
of the arrangements for the holding of the different elections.
Among the more interesting or unusual papers are: a telegram of
8 December 1869 from Patrick Alfred Jennings of Deniliquin
resigning his seat as a Member of the Legislative Council, being a
candidate for the Assembly; petitions from the electors/inhabitants
of St Leonards that the nomination place for the St Leonards
Electorate be changed from Ryde to the Township of St Leonards,
and counter-petitions from electors at Ryde and Hunter's Hill for
the nomination place to remain at Ryde.
The papers are mainly for the period 1868 to 1870, although some
earlier papers from 1858 and 1860 are also included.
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