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proclamation · 1836

Governor Sir Richard Bourke's Proclamation (3 May 1836) responding to a 'flagrant outrage' committed by white men against Aboriginal natives of Western Port, and other outrages by stockmen near Port Phillip: declares the whole southern coast of New Holland west of Wilson's Promontory to 129 degrees E within NSW, so all persons there are subject to NSW law and outrages against Aboriginal natives will be tried before the Supreme Court.

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WHEREAS, it has been represented to me that a flagrant OUTRAGE has been committed upon the ABORIGINAL NATIVES of …

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New South Wales Government Gazette, No. 223, 25 May 1836.