Historical Records of Australia: Despatches and papers, Volume 6Library Committee of the Commonwealth Parliament., 1923 - Australia |
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39th Regt Acres appears appointed April arrival Barracks Bethune boat Brig Brig Amity building Captain charge Chest circumstances Clerk Coast COLONIAL SECRETARY MACLEAY Commandant Committee consideration Convicts copy Council Department Despatch Diemen's Land directed ditto ditto ditto duty Earl Bathurst employed enclose Enclosure Excellency Government House Governor Darling granted Harbour Hobart Town instructions John June King George's Sound labour Launceston letter Lieut LIEUT.-GOVERNOR ARTHUR Lieutenant Governor Lockyer Lord Lordship Macquarie Harbour Majesty's Majesty's Government married ditto Melville Island ment Mermaid Military morning Natives Naval Officer noon Note o'clock opinion Oyster Harbour person Police Port present proposed Raffles Bay received request sailed Salary SECRETARY HAY sent Sept Settlement Settlers Ship shore SLEEMAN Sorell South Wales Stirling Stores supply Swan River Sydney Therm Thomas Ticket of Leave tion transmitted Treasury Van Diemen's Land Vessel Walker Water
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Page 591 - Government, within twenty-one years from the date of the grant, shall, at the end of the twenty-one years, revert absolutely to the Crown. All these conditions, with respect to free grants of land, and all contracts of labouring persons and others, who shall have bound themselves for a stipulated term of service, will be strictly maintained.
Page 598 - You will recommend by your Counsels and example the habitual observance of Sunday as a day of rest and Public Worship, as far as may be compatible with the circumstances in which you may be placed. With these few and general instructions for your guidance, assisted by the oral and written communications which have taken place between yourself and this Department, you will I trust be able to surmount the difficulties to which you may be exposed at the outset, enhanced though they will be by the want...
Page 295 - That every Person employed on any Duty or Service relating to the Customs by the Orders or with the Concurrence of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Customs (whether previously or subsequently expressed) shall be deemed to be the Officer of the Customs for that Duty or Service...
Page 860 - That so soon as it pleaseth God that the abovesaid persons arrive there, a certain quantity of land, or ground plat, shall be laid out, for a large town or city, in the most convenient place, upon the river, for health and navigation...
Page 860 - Fourth, for providing for the government of His Majesty's settlements in Western Australia, on the western coast of New Holland.
Page 356 - I have read the case of the press of India before the King in Council ; but still I think the clause as to the change in the proposed rule, is repugnant to the law of England, — and that policy did not, and does not require it. It is argued, I think, too much as if the Natives had been at all affected by the licentiousness of the press ; the mischief in Calcutta was wholly, I think, confined to the English, and would, I am persuaded,havc remedied itself.
Page 563 - ... of the mountains, is strewed with fragments of rocks and sand, and pieces of chalcedony, which then give place to a red loamy soil. Thus we have, first, the limestone ridge, of an average breadth of three miles, on the sea-shore ; then a plain, or undulating surface, of the average breadth of thirty miles; and, lastly, the mountain range, rising abruptly from the plain, to the height of fifteen hundred feet, and extending, north and south, in a line nearly parallel with the coast, and apparently...
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Page 571 - Labour, possessing great varieties of excellent Soil, well Watered by Springs, Creeks and refreshing Showers, and offering under the influence of a powerful Sun, great ranges in temperature according to the height of position occupied. It appears to hold out every attraction that a Country in a State of nature can possess.
Page xii - Sound, that you will be careful to regulate your language and communications with the officers so as to avoid any expression of doubt of the whole of New Holland being considered within this Government, and division of it, which may be supposed to exist under the designation of New South Wales, being merely ideal, and intended only with a view of distinguishing the more settled part of the country.