[South Australia]

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 [or possibly early 1849].

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 miscellaneous 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 name-plate on the front pastedown; 'Shierlaw & Jessop, Solicitors, Adelaide' is written in ink on the front flyleaf.

Item #13685

Price (AUD): $750.00
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