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proclamation · 1837

Royal Proclamation by Queen Victoria 'for the Encouragement of Piety and Virtue, and for the preventing and punishing of Vice, Profaneness, and Immorality', given at St James's 21 June 1837, republished in NSW by Governor Bourke's command. Enjoins Sabbath observance, bans Sunday gaming, and directs judges, justices, ministers and military officers to suppress vice. (Body spans the merged chunks 12997-13000.)

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GOD SAVE THE QUEEN! BY Us to be careful above all other Things, …

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New South Wales Government Gazette, No. 300-a, 25 October 1837.