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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, 1851-1857
TABLE E (contd.)
LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR - SIR HENRY EDWARD FOX YOUNG
GOVERNOR - SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B.
1851
First Session
1852
Second and Special
Session to pass the
Bullion Act
1852
Third Session
1853
Fourth Session
1854
Fifth Session
1855-56
First Session
(In which the Constitution Act was
passed, January 2, 1856)
1856
Second
Session
13. Light .............. Charles Harvey Bagot.....
(resigned July 7, 1853)
14. Stanley........... William Younghusband ..
15. The Burra....... George Strickland
Kingston.....................
16. Flinders.......... John Ellis ........................
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(
John Tuthill Bagot )
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July 26, 1853
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13. Light ...............John Tuthill Bagot.....
14. Stanley............William Younghusband
15. The Burra........George Strickland
Kingston ...............
16. Flinders...........Alfred Watts..............
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Speaker - John Morphett ..............................
Elected Aug. 20, 1851
Clerk - Francis Corbet Singleton
Appointed Jan. 6, 1851
Assistant-Clerk - William S. Ffooks.............
Appointed Jan. 1, 1851
William B. Gilbert ....................................
Appointed Nov. 17, 1851
Sergeant-at-Arms - Charles Berkeley .......
Appointed Oct. 21, 1851
Council dissolved Aug. 15, 1855
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No provision on
Estimates in year
1853 for
Assistant Clerk
or
Sergeant-at-Arms
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Assistant Clerk and
Librarian John
Stewart Browne;
appointed
Feb. 17, 1854
Speaker - James Hurtle Fisher, elected
Nov. 1, 1855
Clerk - Francis Corbet Singleton .............
Assistant Clerk and Librarian -
John Stewart Browne
Council expired by law Feb. 2, 1857
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*A writ was issued to supply this vacancy, but as no qualified voter was present on polling day, July 26, 1853, no election took place. See L.C. Votes, August 3.
Major Freeling was appointed to be Commissioner of Public Works on October 24, 1856, and Mr. Charles Bonney was made on same date a member of the Executive Council and Commissioner of
Crown Lands and Immigration; but to the Legislative Council Major Freeling continued to be known as Surveyor-General, only the other three changes being notified to the House.
Mr. Hanson acting and appointed permanently May 3, 1853 following the death of the Advocate-General, William Smillie.