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A Guide to New South Wales State Archives relating to Responsible Government
minute are not here, except for a printed document headed "Draft
of Resolutions to be proposed in Committee of the whole House, in
reference to Earl Grey's Despatch upon the proposed New
Constitution".
1848 Minutes — M7764
Minute M7764 is a summary of proceedings of the Executive
Council of 8 August 1848, Minute 48/26, concerning the nonelection of members for the Port Phillip District and the issue of a
new writ of election for the District. Included are the opinion of the
Law Officers on the matter; the returned writ of election with the
note by the Returning Officer that no members for Port Phillip were
returned on the day of nomination, 20 July 1848; and related
correspondence.
1849 Minutes - M8527
M8527, received on 21 July 1849, is a copy of Despatch No.43 of
24 March 1849 from the Secretary of State. In this Despatch the
Secretary of State acknowledges receipt of the Governor's
Despatch of 23 September 1848 (No.206), in which was
forwarded, with other enclosures, a memorial to Earl Grey from
certain inhabitants of the District of Port Phillip in vindication of
the course which they had pursued in abstaining from the election
of members to serve as representatives of that District in the
Legislative Council. Included are
CGS 909,
M7764 in
[4/1026]
CGS 909,
M8527 in
[4/1030]
• copies of an undated printed memorial to Earl Grey from certain
inhabitants of the District of Port Phillip, assembled in a public
meeting
• letter from the Superintendent of Port Phillip of 10 August 1848
transmitting a memorial from inhabitants to the Secretary of
State relative to proceedings at the recent election and urging
separation, with his own observations on the matter (including
letter from Committee appointed for purpose of forwarding the
memorial, with a copy of the memorial).
The committee was appointed at a public meeting held on 31 July
1848 in the City of Melbourne, at which a memorial to Earl Grey
explaining the determination at the late elections for the District of
Port Phillip, and for the City to abstain from returning any
representatives to the Legislative Council of New South Wales was
adopted.
Superintendent La Trobe explained that
the main purport of the Memorial is to explain and vindicate in
the eyes of Earl Grey the extraordinary course adopted by the
majority of the Electors of the City of Melbourne, at the recent
election for a member to represent the `Electoral District of
Melbourne' in the Legislative Council of New South Wales, in
nominating and electing His Lordship, as their representative;
as well as the course pursued at the election of Members to
serve in the same Council, as representatives of the Electoral
District of Port Phillip' on the 20th Ultimo when, - as His
Excellency will have been made aware by the official Return,no members were elected.
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