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and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith.
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To Our O-may and Well-beloved
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;Ce.te- isCece
erecting :—
.T17.REAAAS -ceetidapowers were vested in Us, by theI3ill passed by the late Legislature of Our Celony of Now
Scorn
WALES, in the sixteenth year of Our reign, intituled
," An Act to confer a Constitution on New South Wales &hit to grant a Civil List to Her Majesty,". and assented to by Us under the authority of the Act of Our Imperial
.Porliament passed in the Session of the eighteenth and ninoteentli.years• of Our reign, intituled "An Act to enable Her Majesty to assent, to a Bill, as amended, of
the Legislature of New South Wales, to confer a. Conititution oh New South Wales, and to grant a Civil List to Her Majesty," fht the purpose of constituting and
And whereas, under and by virtue of Our Royal Instructions under Our Sign 14SaaaaI and Signet
• said. Colony
composing the Legislative Council of Our.
Ito.him for that purpose issued, Our Captain-Ceneralandaoverner-in;Chibtof Our Said Colony bath, with the advice' of the UXeCiitiVe Council thereof; designated you as one
of the persons to be summoned to the first Legislative tionnell of our 'said Colony under the said Bill : N e
and integrity,. do, by this
our
therefore, know you that We, confiding in your loyalty, wisdom,
A/y[4 ;1Z' .
Writ, Summon you the said
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to the said Legislative Council of bur said Colony an a Member thereof; To hold.n Seat therein .4.S such. Member for the period of the duration of the said first Legislative •
Council under the provisions of the
And. We hereby command and require you, thatyin do perionally attend and be present with the other Members for the time
being of the said Legislative Cormoil, at such times-and planes as shell from time to time during the said period be fired by the Governor of Our said Colony for holding
the Sessions of the Legislative lConnoil and Legislative Assembly of Our said Colony, then and there to deliberate upon,-treat, and consider of divers weighty matters, affairs,
and business concerning Our said Colony, and to give advice and consent to the making of Laws .hk.the Peace, Welfare, and good Government thereof.
State Records Authority of New South Wales
En errstimoren whereof we have caused this Our Writ, to be sealed: with. the Great Seal of Our said Colony
Trusty and Well-beloved But
WITNESS Our
TtrA Aal THOMAS DENISON, Knight, Governor General in and over all OUT Colonies of
Bent South Wales, Tasmania, Pietoria, South Austra/ia, and Western Australia, and Captain-General and Governorin-Chief of Our Colony of New Sculls Wales, and its Dependencies, and Vice-Adtniral of the same, &a., de.,
at Government House, Sydney, this
day oj:__
in the year of Our Lord.
ORB thousand. eight hundred and fifty-six, and in the nineteenth year of Our Reign.
P t?'
By His Excellency's Command, and with}
the advice of the Executive Council
Writ summoning William Dumaresq as a Member to the Legislative Council established under the new Constitution,
13 May 1856, SRNSW: CSIL 60/1795 in [4/3422]
A Guide to New South Wales State Archives relating to Responsible Government
Wittieria ) by the Grade of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
