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A Guide to New South Wales State Archives relating to Responsible Government
1844 Minutes — M6466
Topnumbered as M6466 is a copy of Secretary of State Despatch
No.125 of 26 August 1844. This advises the Governor of the
receipt of a printed letter from Mr William Hull, of Melbourne,
relative to the question of separating the District of Port Phillip
from the Middle or Sydney District and asks the Governor to
acknowledge and thank Mr Hull for his communication. The
Despatch also mentions that Mr Hull adverts to the circumstance
of three of the first elected Port Phillip Members of Council having
resigned their seats, and "to the indifference which is shewn by
the Electors as to who shall supply their places".
1846 Minutes — M6785
M6785 is a printed pamphlet entitled A Commercial, Statistical and
General Report on the District of Port Phillip, New South Wales, for
the half year ended 31st of January, 1846 by a merchant of
Melbourne, William Westgarth. On pages 28 and 29 are comments
about the separation of Port Phillip from New South Wales which
give the two principal grounds on which separation is claimed as:
the great distance of the present seat of Government at Sydney,
and the injury sustained by the District from the "considerable
transfer of surplus revenue" over the last two to three years to the
Sydney Treasury.
1847 Minutes — M713O
Topnumbered M7130 is a copy of Secretary of State Despatch
No.55 of 11 November 1846. This acknowledges the Governor's
predecessor's Despatch of 24 June 1846, No. 125, in which was
enclosed a petition from various inhabitants of the District of Port
Phillip. The petitioners prayed that Her Majesty would "adopt such
Votes and Resolutions as should be best calculated in the
judgment of Her Majesty to prevent the indiscriminate pledging of
the Land funds of the two Districts as Security for a joint debt" and
for the entire separation of the Port Phillip District from New South
Wales.
1847 Minutes — M7414
Minute M7414 is a summary of proceedings of the Executive
Council on 23 December 1847 concerning the publication of Earl
Grey's Despatch, No.203 of 31 July 1847, respecting the
separation of Port Phillip and the contemplated change in the
constitution of the Legislature of New South Wales. Included is the
printed Government Gazette issue of 24 December 1847 in which
the Despatch was reproduced.
CGS 909,
M6466 in
[4/1021]
CGS 909,
M6785 in
[4/1022]
CGS 909,
M7130 in
[4/1023]
CGS 909,
M7414 in
[4/1024]
Also included, topnumbered as M7455, is a copy of the Despatch.
This announces the decision of Her Majesty's Government on the
intended erection of the Port Phillip District into a separate Colony
and notifies that the necessary Bill will be introduced in the next
Session of the Imperial Parliament; the new Colony will be called
Victoria; and that the Constitution of New South Wales will be
altered and some measures adopted to enable the different
Colonies to cooperate in enacting laws.
Another inclusion is a minute dated 29 August 1848 concerning
proceedings in the Legislative Council resulting from Earl Grey's
Despatch. The various annexures which are mentioned in the
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