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A Guide to New South Wales State Archives relating to Responsible Government
(4.) That this Council having understood that the question of a recurrence
to transportation to some portion of the Territory of Australia, has been
recently mooted, in connexion with the establishment of a Northern
Colony, feels it to be a duty further to represent, on this occasion, that
the Transportation or Exiling of Criminals to a new Colony so immediately
adjoining New South Wales, and forming so accessible a portion of the
same Continent, as the intended New Colony of Moreton Bay, would be a
measure fraught with the most serious evils to this Colony, political,
social, and moral; — and this House, therefore, records its earnest
protest against the taking of any step, in contemplation of such a
measure, in opposition to the deliberately expressed opinion and wishes
of the People of New South Wales, whose interests would thereby be so
materially compromised.
Resolutions of the Legislative Council on the separation of the Northern
Districts and on transportation, LC 56/10 in [4/3348]
1856 Legislative Council and Assembly — LC 56/10
LC 56/10 in
[4/3348]
LC 56/10 is a printed extract from the proceedings of the
Legislative Council detailing Resolutions concerning the separation
of the Northern Districts and on Transportation, originally agreed
to by a Committee of the Council and then adopted by the Council.
These Resolutions had been agreed to by the Legislative Assembly
on 5 November 1856.
The Governor General was to forward these Resolutions to the
Secretary of State for the information of Her Majesty's
Government. An annotation on the Address indicates that it was
answered by a Message on 26 November.
CSIL 57/49
This comprises papers relating to the proposal to include the
Clarence, New England and Gwydir pastoral districts in the
Northern Colony about to be separated from New South Wales.
The papers commence with a copy of a circular letter from the
Colonial Secretary's Office, dated 12 November 1856, to the
Benches of Magistrates in the pastoral districts asking them to
furnish, with as little delay as possible, the opinion of the
inhabitants of the district on the proposal. Included are replies
from Armidale, Wellingrove, Warialda, Grafton, Tenterfield, and
Casino. The responses were opposed to separation from New
South Wales, excepting that from Casino where the Bench
supplied two lists of signatures — one for those against and the
other for those in favour of separation. Also included are of the
minutes of a public meeting of inhabitants held on 27 November
1856 at the Grafton Court House "for the purpose of expressing
their views with reference to the annexation of the District of
Clarence River to the proposed Northern Colony". Resolution 5 is
the text of a petition to the Queen against separation which was
carried at the meeting.
1857 Despatches — M422/B
Topnumbered as M422/B is Despatch No.7 of 15 January 1857
from the Secretary of State. This acknowledges receipt of the
Governor's Despatch of 10 September (No.141), which enclosed a
petition from a number of landholders and residents of the Port
Curtis district. The petitioners prayed that the Northern Districts of
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CGS 905,
CSIL 57/49 in
[4/3350]
CGS 905,
M422/B in
[4/3371]
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