The Acts and Ordinances of South Australia ... A bound volume containing Numbers 3, 8 and 17 of 1844, plus all Acts and Ordinances for the years 1845 to 1848 inclusive
Adelaide, various Government Printers (or printers acting under authority), 1844 to 1848 (but possibly early.
Quarto, each Act or Ordinance separately paginated, totalling several hundred pages.
Contemporary half leather and marbled papered boards a little rubbed and worn at the extremities; some later pencilled annotations; internally in excellent condition.
The balance of the volume contains another 65 separate Acts or Ordinances: 1845 (17 items); 1846 (17 items); 1847 (19 items plus the title page and index leaf); and 1848 (12 items plus the title page and index leaf). Not least, Ordinance Number 8 of 1844 (with an Amendment, Number 5 of 1846): 'To allow the Aboriginal Inhabitants of South Australia and the parts adjacent, to give Information and Evidence without the Sanction of an Oath'. Other ordinances of interest include 'To Establish a Savings Bank in South Australia, to Provide for the Management thereof, and for the Security of Deposits therein' (Number 15 of 1847 and its Amendment, Number 13 of 1848); 'For the Naturalization of certain Persons Natives of Germany' (only Messrs Meyer, Klose, Teichelmann and Schuermann in 1845; in 1847, the list contained 309 names with addresses and occupations); 'Authorising the making of Railways' (Number 7 of 1847, in 68 pages), plus business as usual (Scab in Sheep; Laws of Customs; Salary of the Governor; Qualifications of Medical Practitioners ...). Provenance: the Adelaide lawyer Romilly Garveth Harry (1907-1981), with his ex libris card on the pastedown; 'Shierlaw & Jessop, Solicitors, Adelaide' is written in ink on the free endpaper.
Item #13685
Price (AUD):
$750.00