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A Guide to New South Wales State Archives relating to Responsible Government
Governor's and Colonial Secretary's Minutes and
Memoranda
CGS 909
Many of the Minutes for the 1850s are originals, duplicates or
copies of despatches from the Secretary of State to the Governor.
They mainly differ from the despatches in the series Governor:
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.
1853 Minutes — M11614
Topnumbered as M11614 is Secretary of State Despatch No.98 of
16 July 1853. The despatch acknowledges receipt of the
Governor's despatch of 24 February 1853, No.30, in which were
enclosed two letters from Mr C H Chambers addressed to the Earl
of Derby and Sir John Pakington respectively, both with copies of a
pamphlet on the Constitutional Bills lately brought before the
Legislative Council of NSW. The two letters had been forwarded;
having retained one of the pamphlets for himself, the Secretary of
State advised that he was not prepared to distribute private
printed papers to Members of the Privy Council.
CGS 909,
M11614 in
[4/1047]
Also included are two copies of Chambers' pamphlet An Address to
the people of New South Wales, in opposition to, and refutation of
the Grievances Petitions of the Legislative Council to Parliament,
and displaying the impolicy of the Constitution Bills, proposed for
their redress by a Committee of that Council; and copies of
Charles Henry Chambers' letters to the Earl of Derby and Sir John
Pakington, dated 17 February 1853.
1854 Minutes — M12378
M12378 relates to a petition to the Queen from certain inhabitants
of Maitland and its neighbourhood concerning the proposed new
Constitution, forwarded to the Colonial Secretary by William
Currey, the Secretary to the Maitland Constitution Committee, in
February 1854. The petition, which had been signed by 742
inhabitants, objected to certain provisions of the Constitution Act
as passed by the Legislative Council. Among the many objections
raised in the petition were: the nomination by the Crown of the
Upper House of the Legislature, the two-thirds majority of the
"House of Assembly" for any changes in representation established
by the Act, and the two-thirds majority of both Houses required to
alter the constitution of the Legislative Council.
CGS 909,
M12378 in
[4/1050]
Included are: a copy of the petition and Secretary of State
Despatch No.25 of 10 August 1854 (topnumbered as M12378),
acknowledging receipt of the Governor's Despatch, No.56 of
19 May, in which the petition was enclosed, and advising that the
petition had been laid before the Queen.
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