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A Guide to New South Wales State Archives relating to Responsible Government
We further submit to your Excellency that the present state of this
question leaves the industrial classes without an aim to direct their
energies, higher than the momentary enjoyment of the grog-shop, being
debarred from obtaining land by the difficulties which present themselves
in the Survey department, while the cunning and unscrupulous, with
money succeed.
extract from petition of the inhabitants of Morpeth praying dissolution of
the Legislative Assembly, CGS 905, CSIL 60/4697 with 60/4568 in
[4/3430]
1861 Legislative Assembly and Council
Box [4/3461] contains the following —
LA 61/51, dated 9 May 1861, is an Address from the Legislative
Assembly concerning the appointment of future members of the
Legislative Council. The Assembly resolved that, as the seats of
the Members of the Legislative Council would become vacant on
13 May by effluxion of time, the future members of the Council
should be summoned without delay so that a Parliament would be
in existence if there were an emergency.
LA 61/4, dated 17 September 1861, is an Address from the
Legislative Assembly relating to nominations for life to the
Legislative Council. This Address requests copies of all
correspondence of the Executive Government with any person or
persons relating to life nominations to the Legislative Council as
well as copies of all minutes of the Executive Council, despatches
or communications of the Imperial Government, and letters from
the Governor written with the concurrence of His Excellency's
Responsible advisers to former Members of the Legislative Council
on the same subject. Included are extracts of minutes of
proceedings of the Executive Council of 10 May, 11 June, 20 and
24 June 1861 relative to the appointment of Members to the
Legislative Council; draft commission for appointment of Members
of the Council for life; printed copy of Votes and Proceedings No.9
for 17 September; and, the resulting return to the Address,
ordered to be printed on 15 October 1861.
CGS 905,
[4/3461]
LA 61/51
LA 61/4
Governor
Despatches, circulars and cables from the Secretary of State
and the Under Secretary, and copies of despatches to the
Secretary of State - 1861 Despatches
NRS 4512,
[4/1351]
Two despatches relating to the swamping of the Legislative Council
and its reconstitution are to be found in [4/1351].
Separate Despatch of 4 February 1861: the Secretary of State to
the Governor respecting the appointment of life Members of the
Legislative Council. The first members appointed to the Council in
1856 were for a term of five years only, from May 1856 to May
1861, and therefore 1861 marked the first appointment of life
Members. The Duke of Newcastle was "very deeply impressed by
the importance of this conjuncture to the well being of the Colony"
and gave the Governor the benefit of his views on the matter in
this Despatch.
State Records Authority of New South Wales
Separate of
4 February 1861
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