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A Guide to New South Wales State Archives relating to Responsible Government
... an Act for the better Government of the Australian Colonies has been
recently passed by the Imperial Legislature, and that in the Statute power
is reserved to your Majesty upon petition being presented from resident
householders located north of the 30th degree of south latitude to erect
that part of the Colony into a separate Government distinct from the
present Colony. ... That Petitioners would earnestly impress upon your
Majesty the Great value of this portion of your Majesty's Colonial
dominions ... as an extensive field for the reception of immigrants and
their families from the United Kingdom and the certainty of a happy home
for such as are morally and industriously disposed: but your petitioners
humbly, but solemnly protest against the resumption of Transportation in
any form or upon any condition whatever. - That Petitioners humbly
request your Majesty will be graciously pleased, at such time as your
Majesty shall deem fit, to issue your Royal will and command to erect this
part of New South Wales into a separate Government, and that when such
Royal command shall issue, they humbly represent that no other form of
Government and Legislature, than that which has been secured to the
Australian colonies, will be acceptable to them.
extract from petition to the Queen from householders residing north of
30° of south latitude, adopted at a public meeting held in Brisbane on
8 January 1851
1852 Legislative Council — LC 52/99
LC 52/99 is an Address to the Governor from the Legislative
Council, dated 13 August 1852, requesting a return showing any
correspondence which may have taken place between the
Executive Council and the Home Government relative to a petition
from a number of inhabitants of the district of Moreton Bay
praying for separation with exiles. Supporting papers are included.
These are: a letter from Richard Jones transmitting a petition,
signed by nearly 400 persons, adopted at a public meeting held at
Brisbane on 8 January 1851 for the erection of Moreton Bay into a
separate Colony (transmitted to the Secretary of State by
Despatch No.70 of 4 April 1851); a copy of this petition; the
Auditor General transmitting returns of revenue and expenditure
in the Moreton Bay district; copy of Secretary of State Despatch
No.143 of 22 November 1851 acknowledging a letter from the
Committee of the Northern Districts Separation Association
concerning a meeting held at Brisbane on 16 May 1851 as well as
the correspondence from the Committee; and, a printed copy of
Secretary of State Despatch No.161 of 27 December 1851, in reply
to petitions praying for separation with convicts and separation
without convicts.
Governor's and Colonial Secretary's Minutes and
Memoranda
CGS 905,
LC 52/99 in
[4/3177]
CGS 909
Many of the Minutes for the 1850s are original, duplicate or copies
of despatches from the Secretary of State to the Governor. They
mainly differ from the despatches in the series Despatches,
circulars and cables from the Secretary of State and the Under
Secretary, and copies of despatches to the Secretary of State,
NRS 4512, by the correspondence and other papers which are
often included with them.
State Records Authority of New South Wales
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