Petition of Camel Troop Carrying Company
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1858.
Foolscap folio, 2 pages.
Drop-title; four small holes in the left-hand margin where stab-sewn when bound (now neatly disbound); an excellent copy.
The seventy-seven petitioners were the promoters and subscribers of the Camel Troop Carrying Company, 'established in the City of Adelaide to facilitate the organized introduction of camels into South Australia ... [We] are satisfied that the exploration of Australia will only be profitably accomplished by the employment of these animals'. A Government bonus of 20 pounds per head was sought on the proposed first importation of sixty head of the best breeds. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 86 of 1858.
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