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crown land · 1836

Capt. William Lonsdale (4th/King's Own Regiment) appointed first Police Magistrate of the Port Phillip District, as Crown opens vacant lands near Port Phillip to settlers under NSW land regulations (Colonial Secretary's Office, 9 Sept 1836). Squatters from Van Diemen's Land warned that occupation gives no title before survey and legal conveyance; signed Alexander M'Leay.

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PORT PHILLIP. HIS Majesty's Government having authorised the location of Settlers on the vacant Crown Lands adjacent to …

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New South Wales Government Gazette, No. 239, 14 September 1836.