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proclamation · 1856

Proclamation by Major-General Edward Macarthur (administering the Victorian government after Lt-Gov Hotham's death), with advice of the Executive Council, abolishing the existing nomination and polling places and appointing new ones for the colony's electoral districts ahead of the first elections under the 1856 Constitution. Schedule lists districts (Loddon, East/South Bourke, Evelyn-Mornington, Dundas-Follett, Normanby, Villiers-Heytesbury, Murray etc.) with their nomination towns (Avoca, Heidelberg, Hawthorn, Eltham, North Hamilton, Timboon, Violet Town) and polling places. Countersigned Chief Secretary William C. Haines, Melbourne, 2 October 1856.

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DIEU SOIT QUI・MA WETMON PEN DROIT SECOND SUPPLEMENT TO THE VICTORIA GOVERNMENT GAZETTE OF FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1856. …

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Victoria Government Gazette, No. 126, 4 October 1856.

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