1861.

VICTORIA.

SMYTHESDALE 'TOWN COMMON.

PRESENTED TO BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT IN TERMS OF THE ACT 24 , 117.

SMYTHESDALE TOWN COMMON.

PROCLAMATION. By His Excellency SIR HENRY BARKLY, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Ordt'r of the Bath, Captain. General and Governor-in·Chief of the Colony of Victoria, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &e., &c., &c. "lXTHEREAS in an Act passed in the session of Parliament holden in the twenty-third and twenty. f l' fourth years of Her present Majesty's reign, intituled, An Act for requlatin,q the Sale qf Crown Lands and for otlter purposes, it is amongst other things t'nueted, that it shallbe lawful for the Governor in Council to proclaim that any Crown lands in the vicinity of any town shall be a Common for the use of the inhabitants of such town, and all the inhabitants of such town and its vicinity shall, from the t.ime of such proclamation, be entitled to depasture their cattle and horses on such Common, and such Common shall be called a "Town Oommon;" and it is further enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Oouncil, or. in case such Town Oommon shall be included within or adjoin the limits of any municipal district, then for the munieipal council of such district, with the consent of the Governor in Council, to mtike rules and regulations for deternlining how many horses and cattle every such inhabitant shall be 'entitled to depasture on any Town Common: Now therefore I, Sir Henry Barkly, tile Governor of Victoria, with the adviee of the Executive Council, do hereby proclaim that the Orown lands comprised within the area hereinafter described shall be a TOWN COMMON within the meanihg of the said Act, subject to such rules and regulations as may be prescribed, for the use of the inhabitants of the town of Smythesdale, that is to say :­ TOWN CO}IMON FOR SMYTHESDALE, Parish of Haddon, Oounty of Grenville.-Extent, about 3600 acres: Commencing at the north-west anele of allotment 1 of section parish of Haddon; bounded on the north by the main road from to Ballaarat, bearing about two and three-quarter miles to its intersection with the west boundary of A, JVlcLachlan's pre-emptive section; on the east hy part of the west boundary of this section and the west boundary of 8mytliesdule Gold Field Common together bearing south about one mile seventy ehains to the north boundary of the township of Smythesdale; on the south by part of the north boundary of this township and a line together bearing west about two and three.qnarter miles; and on the west by a line and road together bearing north about two miles fifty chains to commencing point. Given uuder my Hand and the Seal of the Colony, at , this fifteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and in the twenty. fifth year of Her 1\1:ajesty's reign. (LoS.) HENRY BARKLY. By His Excellency'S Command, J. H. BROOKE, President of the Board of Land and Works. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

By Authority: JOliN FERRES, Government Printer, Melbourne. No. 13.