New Historical Resource from NSW Parliament
Fri Mar 31 2017Travel back in time to early colonial days, with the recent digitisation of over 60,000 documents dating from the First Legislative Council (1824 - 1855). You can peruse tabled papers, Bills, minutes of proceedings, reports of debates and correspondence, and learn firsthand about the colony and its fledgling Parliament. For example, there is the Census Bill of 1828: an Act for ascertaining the number, names and condition of the inhabitants of NSW; the Female Felons Factory Act 1829: an Act compelling married men to send for their wives, or to maintain them after the expiration of their sentence to the female factory in order to save the expense to the public; and the University of Sydney Bill 1850. International affairs were recorded too, including the Declaration of the Crimean War. The records - many of which are handwritten - have been digitised as part of a project to make the Parliament as accessible as possible to the community. The Parliament of New South Wales is pleased to provide unprecedented public access to this significant historic material. The records can be accessed via the Parliament's website. We encourage you to go exploring and to send the link to interested family, friends and colleagues.
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