File 4: John Brown papers, volume 4

John Brown papers

This volume contains documents and papers focusing on the history and colonisation of South Australia. It includes a variety of prospectuses associated with the establishment of property, farms, education, emigration, banks and religion in the colony. Creators of these prospectuses include the Australian Agricultural Bank, Colonization Commissioners for South Australia, South Australian Association, South Australian Church Society, South Australian Colonial Office, South Australian Commission, South Australian Company, South Australian District Commission, South Australian Land and Loan Company, South Australian Protestant Emigration Community and South Australian School Society.

Notable documents and papers include:-
1. The South Australian Commission's Rules and Regulations for the Disposal of Public Lands in His Majesty's Province of South Australia
2. The South Australian Commission's Terms for Selling Land to the Amount of £35,000
3. The South Australian District Committee of the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
4. The Colonization Commissioners for South Australia's Regulations for the Disposal of Lands in the Colony, June 1835
5. Circulars to small farmers and others, 1835
6. Society for Providing Religious Instruction Among the Dissenters in the Proposed Colony of South Australia
7. Prospectus of the South Australian Protestant Emigration Community
8. Prospectus of a company to be designated the Australian Investment Bank
9. South Australian School Society Annual Meeting of Subscribers 26 April 1839
10. Proposal for forming an association for the purchase of land in South Australia
11. Prospectus of the Irish South Australian Emigration Community
12. Speech of William Hutt 24 April, 1845
13. Land Grant, Suburban Section
14. South Australian Independent Order of Odd Fellows, General and District Laws, 1852
15. South Australian Copper Mining Company Report, 10 March 1854 and 3 July 1854
16. The Milunga & North Arm Company for the Erection of Wharves, Shops and Warehouses, on Lefevre's Peninsula, Port Adelaide
17. Plan of township of Port Onkaparinga, 1856
18. A full and true account of the murder of Peter Brown, 10 January 1856
19. Donations for establishing a public library and reading-room in Gawler, September 1857
20. Appointment of Mr Walter Ridpath as sub collector of customs at Port Lincoln, 17 September 1860
21. Programme of proceedings in laying the foundation stone of the Victoria Tower, new General Post Office, November 1867


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