Historical Records of Australia

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Library Committee of the Commonwealth Parliament, 1916 - Australia
Official records of the settlement and administration of Australian colonies and Port Essington; many Aboriginal references.
 

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Page 630 - And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions from time to time as you shall receive from this or a future Congress...
Page 8 - Columbia, laborer, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil...
Page 100 - ... obligation shall be void and of no effect, otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.
Page 512 - ... long-tried good conduct, should lead a man back to that rank in society which he had forfeited, and do away, in as far as the case will admit, all retrospect of former bad conduct. This appears to me to be the greatest inducement that can be held out towards the reformation of the manners of the inhabitants...
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