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Sir Edmund Barton - Commonwealth of Australia draft bill with annotations, together with Thomas Rain...

Sir Edmund Barton - Commonwealth of Australia draft bill with annotations, together with Thomas Rain...

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Sir Edmund Barton - Commonwealth of Australia draft bill with annotations, together with Thomas Rainsford Bavin's legal opinion of the Federal Constitution, 1897-1898

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Full title

Sir Edmund Barton - Commonwealth of Australia draft bill with annotations, together with Thomas Rainsford Bavin's legal opinion of the Federal Constitution, 1897-1898

Date

1897-1898

Call Numbers

DLADD 504

Record Identifier

9arpjPGn

Reference Code

949767
Physical Description

Contents

1 volume of textual material - 33 cm. - manuscript

Other Descriptions

Level of description

Fonds

More information

Scope and Contents

Contents

1. Draft of a Bill to Constitute the Commonwealth of Australia: copy, framed and approved by the Australasian Federal Convention, at Adelaide, 22 March to 23 April 1897. A, as amended, September 1897. B, as reported a second time with further amendments, March 1898. The two versions are printed on facing pages, with manuscript notes and alterations...

Alternative Titles

Full title

Sir Edmund Barton - Commonwealth of Australia draft bill with annotations, together with Thomas Rainsford Bavin's legal opinion of the Federal Constitution, 1897-1898

Authors, Artists and Contributors
Notes

Description source

Information transferred from Dixson Manuscript Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012.

Contextual Information

Source

Bequeathed by Sir William Dixson, 1952

Administrative / Biographical history

Slip case labelled on spine Barton/Federation, containing manuscript and printed material concerning the proposed amendments to the Constitution Act.

Identifiers

Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

DLADD 504

Record Identifier

9arpjPGn

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Other Identifiers

Reference code

949767

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