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SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Despatches from the Secretary of State.

No. 1.

COPY of a DESPATCH from the Right Hon. Sir GEORGE GREY, Bart., to Governor Sir HENRY YOUNG.

(No. 12.) SIR,

Downing Street, March 1, 1855.
I HAVE received Sir W. Denison's Despatch, No. 38. of the 8th of
November last, forwarding a petition addressed to the Queen by the Legislative
Council of Van Diemen's Land, praying that the name of Tasmania may be
given to the colony instead of the present designation of Van Diemen's Land.

You will acquaint the Council that I have laid this petition before the Queen, who was pleased to receive it very graciously, and you will further acquaint that body that an early opportunity will be taken to give legal effect to the change which they desire on behalf of the colonists.

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LONDON:

Printed by GEORGE E. EYRE and WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty.

For Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

FURTHER PAPERS

RELATIVE TO THE

ALTERATIONS IN THE CONSTITUTIONS

OF THE

AUSTRALIAN COLONIES.

The Constitutional Bills of New South Wales and Victoria, with the Portions which it is proposed to omit printed in Italics.

(In continuation of Papers presented 20th April 1855.)

Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty, 14 May 1855.

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PRINTED BY GEORGE EDWARD EYRE AND WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE, PRINTERS TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

FOR HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE.

1855.

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FURTHER PAPERS

RELATIVE TO THE

ALTERATIONS IN THE CONSTITUTION OF THE

AUSTRALIAN COLONIES.

NEW SOUTH WALES.

ANNO DECIMO SEPTIMO VICTORIA REGINE.

By His Excellency Sir Charles Augustus Fitzroy, Knight Companion of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, Governor-General of all Her Majesty's Australian Possessions, and Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of the territory of New South Wales and its dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council.

No. XLI.

An Act to confer a Constitution on New South Wales, and to grant a
Civil List to Her Majesty.

clause of 13 & 14

Vict. cap. 39.

WHEREAS by the thirty-second clause of the Imperial Act, passed in the Recital of 32d Session holden in the thirteenth and fourteenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act for the better Government of Her Majesty's Australian Colonies," it was among other things enacted, that, notwithstanding anything therein-before contained, it should be lawful for the Governor and Legislative Council of this colony, from time to time, by any Act or Acts, to alter the provisions of laws for the time being in force under the said Imperial Act or otherwise concerning the election of the elective members of such Legislative Council, and the qualification of electors and elective members, or to establish in the said colony, instead of the Legislative Council, a council and a house of representatives, or other separate legislative houses, to consist of such members, to be appointed or elected by such person and in such manner as by such Act or Acts shonld be determined, and to vest in such council and house of representatives, or other separate legislative houses, the powers and functions of the Legislative Council for which the same may be substituted: And whereas it is expedient that the powers vested by the said Act in the said Governor and Legislative Council should be exercised, and that a Legislative Council and a Legislative Assembly, as constituted by this Act, should be substituted for the present Legislative Council, with the increased powers and functions herein-after contained: Be it therefore enacted, by his Excellency the Governor of New South Wales, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

Assent to Bills.

I. There shall be in place of the Legislative Council now subsisting, one Parliament of New Legislative Council and one Legislative Assembly, to be severally constituted South Wales. and composed in the manner herein-after prescribed; and within the said colony General powers of of New South Wales Her Majesty shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the said council and assembly, to make laws for the peace, welfare, and good government of the said colony, in all cases whatsoever; and all such laws being passed by the said council and assembly, and assented to by Her Majesty, or assented to in Her Majesty's name by the Governor of the said colony, shall be valid and binding to all intents and purposes within the said colony. Provided that all bills for appropriating any part of the public revenue, Taxation and Apfor imposing any new rate, tax, or impost, subject always to the limitation propriation Bills to contained in clause sixty-two of this Act, shall originate in the Legislative originate in Assembly.

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