Guide 3 to NSW State Archives relating to Responsible Government - OCR - Flipbook - Page 115
A Guide to New South Wales State Archives relating to Responsible Government
Federal elections, 1901
This bundle comprises correspondence and papers concerning the
running of the first Federal Election in New South Wales, although
some papers from Perth and Melbourne are included. The polling
day was 29 March 1901; Critchett Walker was both the Returning
Officer for the Colony and the Chief Electoral Officer of the
Commonwealth.
CGS 906,
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Included are papers concerning
• appointments — applications for appointments in connection
with the Federal election and as Presiding Officers; appointment
of Returning Officers, Federal Returning Officers, substitute
Returning Officers and of Poll Clerks; and declarations of
Deputy Returning Officers, substitute Returning Officers and
Poll Clerks;
• accounting matters — fees; querying rate of remuneration for
Deputy Returning Officers; remuneration for services as
Returning Officer
• requests for: copies of circulars, Commonwealth general rolls;
extra ballot boxes; supplies; declaration, appointment, state of
poll and other forms; puncturing instruments
• polling places: requests for places to be appointed/against
places being appointed as central polling places; for use of
public schools and other premises as polling places; for the
appointment of additional polling places
• acknowledgement of the receipt of: the New South Wales
Federal Elections Act, 1900 and the Commonwealth of Australia
Constitution Act; writs of election; of Commissions as Returning
Officers; instructions
• returning: election material, forms, declarations, states of the
poll (Senate and House of Representatives), stamps, corks,
signature books; superseded Commissions
• forwarding papers after the election - rolls books, used ballot
papers, unused ballot papers, check rolls not required,
additional rolls, etc.
The more interesting documents include: nominations of
candidates for the election of members of the House of
Representatives in the State of New South Wales (under the
Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act and the New South
Wales Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Act, Act 56 Vic
No.38, s.65); a return of ballot papers received for use in the
Illawarra Federal Electoral Division for the election of 29 March
1901, and the same return but for the Bland Federal Electoral
Division; duplicate official state of the poll at Wilby polling place or
booth, Federal Division of Condobolin and the same but for the
South Condobolin polling place or booth.
State Records Authority of New South Wales
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