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Fri 20 Apr 1860 - New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900)
Page 764 - MUNICIPALITY OF PALDINGTON.
MUNICIPALITY OF PALDINGTON.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Sie William Thomas Deni
son, Knight Commander of the MoBt Honor
able Order of the Bath, Governor General in
and oyer all Her Majesty's Colonies of New
South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, South Aus
tralia, and Western Australia, and Captain
( General and Governor-in-Chief of the Territory
of New South Wales and its Dependencies,
and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.
WHEREAS by an Act of the Parliament of
New South Wales, passed in the twenty
second year of the reign of Her present Majesty,
intituled, " An Act for establishing Municipal
ft Institutions" and commonly styled and cited as
The Municipalities Act of 1858," it was amongst
other things enacted, that any City, Town, or
Hamlet, then or thereafter established, or any
Rural District, might, as therein provided, be con
stituted a Municipality; and it was by the said
Act cnacted, that the Governor, with the advice of
the Executive Council, might,' on the receipt of a
Petition, signed by not lewer than fifty house
holders resident within any such City, Town,
Hamlet, or Rural District, praying that the same
anight be declared a Municipality under the said
Act, and stating the* number of the inhabitants
thereof, cause the substance and prayer of such
Petition to be published in the Government
Grfizette ; and unless a Counter-Petition, signed by
a greater number of householders, resident as afore
said, should be received by the Colonial Secretary
within three months from the date of such publi
cation, the Governor, with the advice aforesaid,
might by proclamation published in like manner,
declare such City, Town, or Hamlet, or such Rural
District, to be a Municipality, by a name to be
mentioned in such Proclamation, and. might also,
by the same or anjr other Proclamation, define the
limits and boundaries thereof; and that upon such
J Price, l«.j
I publication the Municipality should be constituted
accordingly: And wliereas a Petition from one
hundred and seventy-two Residents, Householders,
and Freeholders, of the District of Paddington, in
the County of Cumberland, in the Colony of New
South Wales, praying that the same might be
declared a Municipality under the provisions of
the said Act, and stating that the number of the
inhabitants thereof was three thousand, was pre
sented to the Governor, the substauce and prayer
of which Petition were duly published in the
Government Gazette, in accordance with the pro
visions of the said Act: And whereas no Counter
Petition was received by the Colonial Secretary
within three months from the date of the publica
tion of the Petition for such Municipality: And
whereas the Governor, with the advice of the
Executive Council, has, in exercise of the powers
conferred by the said Act, determined to declare
by Proclamation such Rural District of Paddington
to be a Municipality, by the name hereinafter
mentioned, and to define the limits and boundaries
thereof in the manner hereinafter defined: Now,
therefore, I, Sir William Thomas Denison, the
Governor General and Governor-in-Chief afore
said, in pursuance of the provisions of the said
Act, and with the advice of the Executive Council,
do by this my Proclamation declare that the Dis
trict hereinafter described and named shall be a
Municipality within the meaning of the said Act,
and that the limits and boundaries thereof shall
be as follows, that is to say:—
The Municipality of Paddington.
Embracing a western portion of the Parish of
Alexandria, in the County of Cumberland; com-
mencing at the intersection of Dowling-street and
the Old Botany Road, at the north-western corner
of the Municipality of Randwick; and bounded
thence on the south by part of the northern boun
dary of that Municipality, being the southern
boundaries of the Church of England grant, Levey's
grant, and the Victoria Barracks, easterly, a line
south-easterly, to the south-western corner of C.
Gordon's 2 acres grant, the southern boundary of
that grant, easterly, to its south-eastern corner,
and thence a line, north-easterly, to the centre of
the Old South Head Road, at its intersection with
the Point Piper Road; thence on the east by the
western boundary of the Municipality of Wool
lahra, being a line along the centre of the Point
Piper Road, northerly, to the centre of the New
South Head Road; on the north by part of the
southern boundary of the Municipality of Wool
lahra, being a line, westerly, along tne centre of
that road to the Bridge at Rushcutter's Bay; and
on the west by the eastern boundary of the City
of Sydney, being the stream falling to that Bay,
upwards, to the southern side of the Old South
Head Road, and thence a line along the centre of
Dowling-street, southerly, to the point of com
mencement.
And I do hereby, with the advice aforesaid,
declare and direct that silch Municipality shall be
called by the name of " The Municipality of
Paddington."
Given under my Hand and the Seal of the
Colony, at Government House, Sydney,
this seventeenth day of April, in the year
of Our jLord one thousand eight hundred
and sixty, and in the twenty-tliird year of
Her Majesty's Reign.
(l.s.) - W. DENISON.
By His Excellency's Command,
CHARLES COWPER.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
SYDNEY:
Printed and published by Thomas Richards, Govern
" ment Printer, Phillip-street, 20th April, I860.
Article identifier
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230043686
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http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page12911368
APA citation
MUNICIPALITY OF PALDINGTON. (1860, April 20). New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900), p. 764. Retrieved March 27, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230043686
MLA citation
"MUNICIPALITY OF PALDINGTON." New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900) 20 April 1860: 764. Web. 27 Mar 2025 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230043686>.
Harvard/Australian citation
1860 'MUNICIPALITY OF PALDINGTON.', New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900), 20 April, p. 764. , viewed 27 Mar 2025, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230043686
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{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230043686 |title=MUNICIPALITY OF PALDINGTON. |newspaper=[[New South Wales Government Gazette]] |issue=77 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=20 April 1860 |accessdate=27 March 2025 |page=764 |via=National Library of Australia}}

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