LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY and LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

Second Parliament

21 July 1863 – 29 May 1867

Queensland Parliamentary Debates

INDEX

Contents of this document *

2nd Parliament, 1st Session 21 July 1863 – 22 September 1863 Index from Newspaper – Courier, 1863

2nd Parliament, 2nd Session 26 April 1864 – 13 September 1864 Index from Hansard, 1st series, V.1, 1864

2nd Parliament, 3rd Session 2 May 1865 – 14 September 1865 Index from Hansard, 1st series, V.2, 1865

2nd Parliament, 4th Session 10 April 1866 – 23 October 1866 Index from Hansard, 1st series, V.3, 1866

2nd Parliament, 5th Session 7 May 1867 – 23 May 1867 Index from Hansard, 1st series, V.4, 1867

*The Index from each volume of Hansard corresponds with a Parliamentary Session.

This document contains a list of page numbers of the daily proceedings for the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly as printed in the corresponding Hansard volume.

A list of page numbers at the start of each printed index is provided to allow the reader to find the electronic copy in the online calendar by clicking on the date of the proceedings and then to a link to the pdf.

Therefore the table of page numbers and dates of proceedings allows the pagination in each Index to be matched with the date and the particular Legislative Chamber.

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY and LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

Second Parliament – First Session

Queensland Parliamentary Debates published in Courier, 1863

21 July 1863 – 22 September 1863

(Herbert Government)

INDEX

DATE HOUSE Published in Newspaper

21 July 1863 Legislative Council Courier 22 July 1863

21 July 1863 Legislative Assembly Courier 22 July 1863

22 July 1863 Legislative Council Courier 23 July 1863

22 July 1863 Legislative Assembly Courier 23 July 1863

23 July 1863 Legislative Council Courier 24 July 1863

23 July 1863 Legislative Assembly Courier 24 July 1863

24 July 1863 Legislative Council Courier 25 July 1863

24 July 1863 Legislative Assembly Courier 25 July 1863

28 July 1863 Legislative Assembly Courier 29 April 1863

29 July 1863 Legislative Council Courier 30 July 1863

29 July 1863 Legislative Assembly Courier 30 July 1863

30 July 1863 Legislative Council Courier 31 July 1863

30 July 1863 Legislative Assembly Courier 31 July 1863

31 July 1863 Legislative Assembly Courier 1 August 1863

4 August 1863 Legislative Assembly Courier 5 August 1863

5 August 1863 Legislative Council Courier 6 August 1863

5 August 1863 Legislative Assembly Courier 6 August 1863

6 August 1863 Legislative Council Courier 7 August 1863

6 August 1863 Legislative Assembly Courier 7 August 1863

7 August 1863 Legislative Assembly Courier 8 August 1863 DATE HOUSE Published in Newspaper

11 August 1863 Legislative Assembly Courier 12 August 1863

12 August 1863 Legislative Council Courier 13 August 1863

12 August 1863 Legislative Assembly Courier 13 August 1863

13 August 1863 Legislative Council Courier 14 August 1863

13 August 1863 Legislative Assembly Courier 14 August 1863

14 August 1863 Legislative Council Courier 15 August 1863

14 August 1863 Legislative Assembly Courier 15 August 1863

18 August 1863 Legislative Assembly Courier 19 August 1863

19 August 1863 Legislative Council Courier 20 August 1863

19 August 1863 Legislative Assembly Courier 20 August 1863

20 August 1863 Legislative Council Courier 21 August 1863

20 August 1863 Legislative Assembly Courier 21 August 1863

21 August 1863 Legislative Council Courier 22 August 1863

21 August 1863 Legislative Assembly Courier 22 August 1863

25 August 1863 Legislative Assembly Courier 26 August 1863

26 August 1863 Legislative Council Courier 27 August 1863

26 August 1863 Legislative Assembly Courier 27 August 1863

27 August 1863 Legislative Council Courier 28 August 1863

27 August 1863 Legislative Assembly Courier 28 August 1863

28 August 1863 Legislative Council Courier 29 August 1863

28 August 1863 Legislative Assembly Courier 29 August 1863

1 September 1983 Legislative Assembly Courier 2 September 1863

2 September 1983 Legislative Council Courier 3 September 1863

2 September 1983 Legislative Assembly Courier 3 September 1863

3 September 1983 Legislative Council Courier 4 September 1863

3 September 1983 Legislative Assembly Courier 4 September 1863 DATE HOUSE Published in Newspaper

4 September 1983 Legislative Council Courier 5 September 1863

4 September 1983 Legislative Assembly Courier 5 September 1863

8 September 1983 Legislative Council Courier 9 September 1863

8 September 1983 Legislative Assembly Courier 9 September 1863

9 September 1983 Legislative Council Courier 10 September 1863

9 September 1983 Legislative Assembly Courier 10 September 1863

10 September 1983 Legislative Council Courier 11 September 1863

10 September 1983 Legislative Assembly Courier 11 September 1863

11 September 1983 Legislative Council Courier 12 September 1863

11 September 1983 Legislative Assembly Courier 12 September 1863

14 September 1983 Legislative Assembly Courier 15 September 1863

15 September 1983 Legislative Council Courier 16 September 1863

15 September 1983 Legislative Assembly Courier 16 September 1863

16 September 1983 Legislative Council Courier 17 September 1863

16 September 1983 Legislative Assembly Courier 17 September 1863

17 September 1983 Legislative Council Courier 18 September 1863

17 September 1983 Legislative Assembly Courier 18 September 1863

18 September 1983 Legislative Council Courier 19 September 1863

18 September 1983 Legislative Assembly Courier 19 September 1863

22 September 1983 Legislative Council Courier 23 September 1863

22 September 1983 Legislative Assembly Courier 23 September 1863

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY and LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

Second Parliament – First Session

Record of Parliamentary Proceedings published in Courier, 1863

Chronological By Sitting Date

21 July 1863 – 22 September 1863

(Herbert Government)

INDEX

SUBHEADING DATE HOUSE ELECTION OF A SPEAKER 21 July 1863 Legislative Assembly PROCLAMATION 21 July 1863 Legislative Council RAILWAYS 22 July 1863 Legislative Assembly LIENS ON YEARLY CROPS BILL 22 July 1863 Legislative Assembly GERMAN IMMIGRATION AGENT 22 July 1863 Legislative Assembly OFFICIAL SURVEY MARKS’ BILL 22 July 1863 Legislative Council SCAB [sheep scab] 23 July 1863 Legislative Assembly BAR 23 July 1863 Legislative Assembly WORKING OF THE IMMIGRATION LAWS 28 July 1863 Legislative Assembly SUPREME COURT BILL 28 July 1863 Legislative Assembly SCAB IN SHEEP BILL 28 July 1863 Legislative Assembly REPORTED SHIPWRECK AT MORETON ISLAND 28 July 1863 Legislative Assembly RAILWAYS Rockhampton 28 July 1863 Legislative Assembly RAILWAY BILLS 28 July 1863 Legislative Assembly PRINTING COMMITTEE 28 July 1863 Legislative Assembly PASTORAL OCCUPATION BILL 28 July 1863 Legislative Assembly HARRIS CASE OF LIEUTENANT HARRIS 28 July 1863 Legislative Assembly FIRES BILL 28 July 1863 Legislative Assembly EXPENDITURE 28 July 1863 Legislative Assembly EVIDENCE BEFORE SELECT COMMITTEE ON 28 July 1863 Legislative Assembly EMIGRATION DREDGING OPERATIONS AT THE RIVER BAR 28 July 1863 Legislative Assembly CLERK OF PETTY SESSIONS, IPSWICH 28 July 1863 Legislative Assembly QUARANTINE BILL 28 July 1863 Legislative Council TRANSFERRING POWERS AND ESTATES OF 29 July 1863 Legislative Assembly ORDNANCE BILL ROAD FROM IPSWICH TO TOOWOOMBA 29 July 1863 Legislative Assembly RIVER FRONTAGES AT ROCKHAMPTON 29 July 1863 Legislative Assembly REPORT OF LIEUTENANT HARRIS, OF THE NATIVE 29 July 1863 Legislative Assembly POLICE PROPOSED STATION AT CAPE YORK 29 July 1863 Legislative Assembly POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT 29 July 1863 Legislative Assembly POLICE FORCE AMENDMENT BILL 29 July 1863 Legislative Assembly PETITIONS OF MR ALEXANDER AND THE REVS 29 July 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBHEADING DATE HOUSE MESSRS BRACKENRIDGE AND POOLE

LAIDLEY POUND 29 July 1863 Legislative Assembly INTESTATE ESTATES AMENDMENT BILL 29 July 1863 Legislative Assembly GRANTS FOR RELIGIOUS PURPOSES 29 July 1863 Legislative Assembly GERMANS RESIDENT AT TOOWOOMBA 29 July 1863 Legislative Assembly DISEASES IN SHEEP BILL 29 July 1863 Legislative Assembly CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS TO HER MAJESTY 29 July 1863 Legislative Assembly BATHURST BURR BILL 29 July 1863 Legislative Assembly AGRICULTURAL RESERVES 29 July 1863 Legislative Assembly WITHDRAWAL OF MOTION Portrait of Her Majesty 29 July 1863 Legislative Council WINDING UP TRADING COMPANIES 29 July 1863 Legislative Council QUARANTINE BILL 29 July 1863 Legislative Council POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS 29 July 1863 Legislative Council PETITION Mr J King, only survivor of Burke and Wills 29 July 1863 Legislative Council expedition

INSOLVENCY 29 July 1863 Legislative Council EXHIBITION MEDALS 29 July 1863 Legislative Council CHARGE AGAINST MR HARRIS And three troopers of 29 July 1863 Legislative Council the Native Police ROAD TO WARWICK 30 July 1863 Legislative Assembly ROAD BETWEEN IPSWICH AND THE MAIN RANGE 30 July 1863 Legislative Assembly MR COOTE AND THE MORETON BAY TRAMWAY 30 July 1863 Legislative Assembly COMPANY LIENS ON CROPS BILL 30 July 1863 Legislative Assembly HAWKERS’ AND PEDLERS’ BILL 30 July 1863 Legislative Assembly DRAYTON AGRICULTURAL RESERVES 30 July 1863 Legislative Assembly COMMERCIAL BANK BILL 30 July 1863 Legislative Assembly BROOKES PETITION OF WILLIAM BROOKES 30 July 1863 Legislative Assembly WHARF AT ROCKHAMPTON 31 July 1863 Legislative Assembly ROADS AND BRIDGES 31 July 1863 Legislative Assembly PETITION FROM TURNKEYS 31 July 1863 Legislative Assembly MUNICIPALITIES’ ENDOWMENTS 31 July 1863 Legislative Assembly MILITARY LANDS BILL 31 July 1863 Legislative Assembly HAWKERS' AND PEDLERS’ BILL 31 July 1863 Legislative Assembly DISEASES IN SHEEP PREVENTION BILL 31 July 1863 Legislative Assembly COOTE PETITION OF MR W COOTE 31 July 1863 Legislative Assembly BONUS TO GROWERS OF COTTON 31 July 1863 Legislative Assembly SUB-DIVISION OF LAND FOR BUILDING PURPOSES 4 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly ROADS COMMITTEE 4 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly ROAD BETWEEN IPSWICH AND DALBY 4 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly REAL ESTATE OF INTESTATES DISTRIBUTION BILL 4 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly RAILWAY PLANT 4 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly RAILWAY BILL 4 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly HAWKERS’ AND PEDDLERS’ BILL Third reading 4 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBHEADING DATE HOUSE COMMERCIAL BANKING COMPANY OF SYDNEY 4 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly WHARF AT ROCKHAMPTON 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly WAYS AND MEANS 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUPREME COURT BILL 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUPPLY 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SCAB BILL 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly ROADS IN WIDE BAY DISTRICT 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly ROAD BETWEEN IPSWICH AND TOOWOOMBA 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly RAILWAY COMMUNICATION 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PASTORAL LEASES BILL 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly NORTHERN ROADS 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly MAIN ROADS AND BRIDGES 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly LIEN ON CROPS BILL 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly INQUESTS ON FIRES BILL 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly IMMIGRATION DEPOT AT TOOWOOMBA 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS TO HER MAJESTY 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly BATHURST BURR BILL 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly BANK OF QUEENSLAND INCORPORATION BILL 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly WATER POLICE HULK 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Council TRADING COMPANY’S WINDING UP BILL 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Council RULES OF SUPREME COURT 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Council QUARANTINE BILL 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Council MR FITZGIBBON’S REPORT 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Council MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Council ISLANDS IN THE BAY 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Council INSOLVENCY RETURNS 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Council HER MAJESTY’S PORTRAIT 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Council HAWKERS' AND PEDLERS' BILL 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Council DIVORCE 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Council SQUATTING RETURNS 6 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly ROAD FROM IPSWICH TO DALBY 6 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly QUEENSLAND BANK BILL 6 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly POLICE BILL 6 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly MILITARY LANDS BILL 6 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly LIENS ON CROPS BILL Third reading 6 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly INQUESTS ON FIRES BILL 6 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CIVIL SERVICE BILL 6 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CIRCUIT COURT AT WARWICK 6 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly BATHURST BURR BILL 6 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly WASTE LANDS 6 Aug 1863 Legislative Council SCAB IN SHEEP BILL Second reading 6 Aug 1863 Legislative Council QUARANTINE BILL 6 Aug 1863 Legislative Council PRINCE OF WALES’ MARRIAGE 6 Aug 1863 Legislative Council MR JUSTICE LUTWYCHE 6 Aug 1863 Legislative Council EXPENDITURE ON ROADS 6 Aug 1863 Legislative Council SUBHEADING DATE HOUSE WHARF AT ROCKHAMPTON 7 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly WAYS AND MEANS 7 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly ROAD BETWEEN IPSWICH AND WIVENHOE 7 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly RENT AND ASSESSMENT ON RUNS 7 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly POLICE MAGISTRATE AT CONDAMINE 7 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly MILITARY LANDS BILL Third reading 7 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly LICENSED PUBLICANS’ BILL 7 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly IPSWICH SCHOOL OF ARTS 7 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly INQUESTS ON FIRES BILL Third reading 7 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly IMPORTED GAME BILL First reading 7 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly GRANTS OF LAND TO COTTON GROWERS 7 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly FISHING REGULATIONS IN MORETON BAY 7 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly BRIDGE AT CONDAMINE TOWNSHIP 7 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly BRIDGE AT BALONNE RIVER 7 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly BONUS ON COTTON 7 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly BATHURST BURR BILL Third reading 7 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY 7 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly TOWNSHIP OF ST LAURENCE 11 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBDIVISION OF LAND BILL Second reading 11 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly STOCKHOLDERS ON THE WARREGO 11 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly REPRESENTATION OF MINISTERS 11 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly REMOVAL OF POLICE 11 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly RAILWAYS BILL Committee debate 11 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PUBLICANS’ ACT 11 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly POWERS OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE 11 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly POLICE MAGISTRATE AT CONDAMINE 11 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly INTESTATE ESTATES DISTRIBUTION BILL Second 11 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly reading INSOLVENT LAWS 11 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CIRCUIT COURT AT GAYNDAH 11 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly BRISBANE GAOL AND LUNATIC ASYLUM 11 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY 11 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly TELEGRAPH FROM DALBY TO CONDAMINE 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly RAILWAY BILL 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly POLICE BILL 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly NORTHERN ROADS 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly NATIONAL AND COLONIAL EMIGRATION SOCIETY 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly MILITARY BARRACKS 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly MAIN ROAD THROUGH DALBY 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly JURY LAWS 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly IMPORTED GAME BILL Second reading 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly GLADFIELD RESERVE 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly GERMAN IMMIGRATION AGENT 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly ELECTIVE UPPER HOUSE 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CROWN PROSECUTOR AT IPSWICH 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBHEADING DATE HOUSE CIVIL SERVICE BILL Second reading 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CENSUS BILL 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly BRISBANE BRIDGE 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly BRIDGE OVER BUNGIL CREEK 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly TRADING COMPANIES’ BILL Committee debate 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Council THE FOURTH MINISTER 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Council QUARANTINE BILL 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Council NEW MEMBERS Hons J F M’DOUGALL, A W 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Council COMPIGNE, and J M’CONNELL LIENS ON CROPS BILL Second reading 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Council ISLANDS IN MORETON BAY 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Council INSOLVENCY RETURNS 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Council HAWKERS’ AND PEDLERS’ BILL Second reading 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Council DAYS OF BUSINESS 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Council TELEGRAPH FROM LYTTON TO THE BAY 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBDIVISION OF LAND BILL 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly REDCLIFFE RESERVE 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly RAILWAYS BILL 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly NORTHERN ROADS Committee debate 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly IMPORTED GAME BILL 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CROWN PROSECUTOR AT IPSWICH 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly BRISBANE POLICE 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly BRISBANE BRIDGE 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly BRIDGE OVER OXLEY CREEK 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly ADDITIONAL MEMBERS OF ASSEMBLY 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly TRADING COMPANIES BILL 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Council SCAB IN SHEEP BILL Committee debate 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Council QUARANTINE BILL 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Council PETITIONS 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Council PETITION 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Council MR JUSTICE LUTWYCHE 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Council MILITARY LANDS BILL Second reading 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Council MATRIMONIAL CAUSES JURISDICTION BILL 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Council HAWKERS' AND PEDLERS' BILL Second reading 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Council CORRESPONDENCE 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Council CONSTITUTION OF THE COUNCIL 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Council ABSENCE OF MEMBERS 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Council WAYS AND MEANS 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly TREASURY Salaries 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SURVEY OF LAND Salaries 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUPREME COURT Salaries 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUPREME COURT BILL 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUPPLY 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SHERIFF Salaries 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBHEADING DATE HOUSE SALE OF LAND 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly RESERVES 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PUBLIC WORKS—SOUTHERN DISTRICTS 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PUBLIC WORKS—NORTHERN DISTRICTS 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PUBLIC WORKS AND BUILDINGS 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PETITIONS From 215 members of the Church of 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly England in North Brisbane PETITION From members of the Church of England in 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly Warwick PAPERS Returns of endowments to the different 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly municipalities of the colony PAPERS National and Colonial Emigration Society 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly LAW OFFICERS OF THE CROWN Salaries 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CUSTOMS Salaries 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly COTTON BONUS 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CORONERS Salaries 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly COLONIAL ARCHITECT Salaries 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CIVIL SERVICE BILL 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CENSUS BILL Second reading 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly BOTANICAL GARDENS 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly AUDITOR-GENERAL Salaries 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SCAB IN SHEEP BILL 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Council QUARANTINE BILL 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Council PETITION From 58 members of the Church of 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Council England in Warwick MILITARY LANDS BILL 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Council LIENS ON CROPS BILL 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Council INQUESTS ON FIRES BILL Second reading 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Council COTTON RESOLUTIONS 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Council SUPPLY 18 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBDIVISION OF LAND BILL 18 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS 18 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly REAL ESTATE OF INTESTATES BILL 18 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly RAILWAYS BILL Third reading 18 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PETITIONS From residents in Fortitude Valley on 18 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly primary education PETITIONS From James Skelton, Chief Constable of 18 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly Dalby PETITIONS From Bishop of Brisbane and the clergy of 18 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly his diocese PETITION FROM WARWICK Re system of primary 18 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly education PAPERS Asked for by Mr Mackenzie with reference 18 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly to expenditure NORTHERN ROADS 18 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly MAGISTRATES POWERS LIMITATION BILL Second 18 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly reading SUBHEADING DATE HOUSE IMPORTED GAME BILL Third reading 18 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly IMMIGRATION DEPOTS 18 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly HULK “JULIA PERCY” AND SCHOONER “ERA” 18 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly COMMERICAL BANK OF SYDNEY 18 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CIVIL SERVICE BILL 18 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CENSUS BILL Committee debate 18 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly BRIDGE AT TOOWOOMBA 18 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUPREME COURT BILL Committee debate 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBDIVISION OF LAND BILL Committee debate 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly REAL ESTATE OF INTESTATES DISTRIBUTION BILL 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly Third reading QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE Re article headed Decrease 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly of Aboriginals QUEENSLAND BANK BILL 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PUBLICANS’ BILL Second reading 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PLEURO-PNEUMONIA 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PETITIONS ON EDUCATION 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PETITIONS From persons settled on Redcliffe 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly agricultural reserve PETITIONS From Dr Labatt 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PETITIONS From Darling Downs inhabitants on 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly education PETITIONS From Abraham Hartley, of Jondaryan re 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly police magistrate of the Condamine PETITION FROM JAMES SKELTON 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PASTORAL LEASES BILL Second reading 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly MAGISTRATES’ POWERS LIMITATION BILL 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly Committee debate IPSWICH AND TOOWOOMBA ROAD 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly GERMAN IMMIGRANTS 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly DELEGATES TO INTERCOLONIAL CONFERENCE 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly COMMERCIAL BANK INCORPORATION BILL 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CIVIL SERVICE BILL Committee debate 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CENSUS BILL Third reading 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly TRADING COMPANIES’ BILL Third reading 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Council SCAB IN SHEEP BILL Third reading 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Council QUARANTINE BILL 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Council MILITARY LANDS BILL 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Council LIENS ON CROPS BILL Third reading 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Council INQUEST ON FIRES BILL Committee debate 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Council EMIGRATION TO THE 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Council EDUCATION 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Council CORPORATION ENDOWMENTS 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Council BATHURST BURR BILL Second reading 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Council SUPREME COURT BILL Third reading 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUPPLY 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBHEADING DATE HOUSE SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SCAB BILL Committee debate 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly RESERVES ON LINES OF RAILWAY 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly REDCLIFFE RESERVE Petition 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PUBLICANS’ BILL Committee debate 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly POLICE BILL Committee debate 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly MILITARY LANDS BILL 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly MAGISTRATES POWERS LIMITATION BILL Third 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly reading IMPROVEMENT OF RIVER BETWEEN BRISBANE AND 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly IPSWICH IMPOUNDING ACT AMENDMENT BILL Introduced 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly DRAYTON AND TOOWOOMBA AGRICULTURAL 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly RESERVE CONSTITUTION OF LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly ADDITIONAL MEMBERS BILL Second reading 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly RAILWAY BILL 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Council RAILWAY BILL 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Council MILITARY LANDS BILL Third reading 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Council LAND ORDERS 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Council INQUESTS ON FIRES BILL 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Council DAYS OF SITTING 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Council CENSUS BILL 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Council BATHURST BURR BILL 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Council ABSENCE OF MEMBERS 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Council WAYS AND MEANS 21 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PETITION From 50 members of the Church of 21 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly England, inhabitants of Toowoomba, re education PASTORAL LEASES BILL Committee debate 21 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PAPERS Re late importation of South Sea Islanders 21 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly by the Don Juan COMPANIES BILL Second reading 21 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly REAL ESTATE BILL 21 Aug 1863 Legislative Council RAILWAYS 21 Aug 1863 Legislative Council PETITION From 50 members of the Church of 21 Aug 1863 Legislative Council England, inhabitants of Toowoomba, re education INTERCOLONIAL CONFERENCE 21 Aug 1863 Legislative Council INQUESTS ON FIRES BILL Third reading 21 Aug 1863 Legislative Council IMPORTED GAME BILL Second reading 21 Aug 1863 Legislative Council IMMIGRATION RETURNS 21 Aug 1863 Legislative Council GERMAN IMMIGRANTS 21 Aug 1863 Legislative Council FISHERIES 21 Aug 1863 Legislative Council CENSUS BILL Second reading 21 Aug 1863 Legislative Council BATHURST BURR BILL 21 Aug 1863 Legislative Council REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT 25 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly QUEENSLAND BANK BILL 25 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBHEADING DATE HOUSE PUBLICANS BILL Third reading 25 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly POLICE BILL Third reading 25 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PASTORAL LEASES BILL Committee debate 25 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PAPERS Re Julia Percy 25 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly LABATT DR LABATT 25 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly IPSWICH SCHOOL OF ARTS BILL 25 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly IMPOUNDING BILL Second reading 25 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly IMMIGRATION DEPOTS IN INTERIOR 25 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly HARTLEY ABRAHAM HARTLEY 25 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly GLADFIELD RESERVE 25 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly FACILITATION OF AGRICULTURE BILL First reading 25 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly DRAYTON AGRICULTURAL RESERVE 25 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly DISMISSAL OF MR CHAMBERS 25 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly COMMERCIAL BANK BILL 25 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CIVIL SERVICE BILL Committee debate 25 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CITY OF BRISBANE INCORPORATION BILL 25 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly ADDITIONAL MEMBERS' BILL Second reading 25 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly resumption SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly ROCKHAMPTON RIVER FRONTAGE 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly QUEENSLAND BANK BILL 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PETITION From Rockhampton re land order system 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly IPSWICH RECREATION GROUND 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly IMMIGRATION DEPOTS 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly ELECTIONS AND QUALIFICATIONS 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly COMPANIES BILL 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly COMMERCIAL BANK BILL 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SELECT COMMITTEE ON PRIVILEGES 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Council SCAB IN SHEEP BILL 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Council REAL ESTATE OF INTESTATES BILL 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Council RAILWAYS BILL Second reading 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Council RAILWAY BILL—RESUMPTION OF EXAMINATION OF 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Council WITNESSES QUARANTINE BILL Third reading 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Council PUBLICANS’ BILL First reading 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Council POLICE BILL First reading 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Council LIGHTHOUSES 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Council INQUESTS ON FIRES BILL Third reading 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Council IMPORTED GAME BILL 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Council IMMIGRATION RETURNS 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Council TELEGRAPH BETWEEN TOOWOOMBA AND DALBY 27 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly QUARANTINE BILL First reading 27 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PASTORAL LEASES BILL Third reading 27 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PAPERS Copy of the deed of land granted to the 27 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly trustees of the Ipswich Grammar School MR FITZGIBBON 27 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBHEADING DATE HOUSE LAND BETWEEN BRISBANE AND IPSWICH 27 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly COMPANIES BILL Third reading 27 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly COMMISSIONERS OF CROWN LANDS 27 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CIVIL SERVICE BILL Committee debate 27 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUPREME COURT BILL Second reading 27 Aug 1863 Legislative Council RAILWAYS BILL—RESUMPTION OF EXAMINATION 27 Aug 1863 Legislative Council RAILWAYS BILL Second reading 27 Aug 1863 Legislative Council OYSTER FISHERIES 27 Aug 1863 Legislative Council MAGISTRATES POWERS LIMITATION BILL Second 27 Aug 1863 Legislative Council reading IPSWICH GRAMMAR SCHOOL 27 Aug 1863 Legislative Council IMPORTED GAME BILL 27 Aug 1863 Legislative Council CENSUS BILL 27 Aug 1863 Legislative Council BATHURST BURR BILL Third reading 27 Aug 1863 Legislative Council WAYS AND MEANS 28 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBDIVISION OF LAND BILL 28 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly QUESTIONS 28 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PAPERS Certain returns re assessment of the Darling 28 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly Downs INQUESTS ON FIRES BILL Committee debate 28 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly IMPOUNDING BILL Committee debate 28 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly IMPORTED GAME BILL Assented 28 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CENSUS BILL Assented 28 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly BATHURST BURR BILL 28 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE 28 Aug 1863 Legislative Council RAILWAYS BILL Committee debate 28 Aug 1863 Legislative Council RAILWAY 28 Aug 1863 Legislative Council PUBLICANS’ BILL Second reading 28 Aug 1863 Legislative Council POLICE BILL Second reading 28 Aug 1863 Legislative Council OYSTER FISHERIES 28 Aug 1863 Legislative Council MAGISTRATES’ POWERS LIMITATION BILL 28 Aug 1863 Legislative Council IMPORTED GAME BILL Third reading 28 Aug 1863 Legislative Council GERMAN IMMIGRANTS 28 Aug 1863 Legislative Council CENSUS BILL Third reading 28 Aug 1863 Legislative Council WARWICK AGRICULTURAL RESERVE 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SUPPLY 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBDIVISION OF LAND BILL Committee debate 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly STOCK AND ASSESSMENT RETURNS 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly RIVERS AND HARBOURS 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly RETURNS FROM COUNTRY DISTRICTS 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly QUEENSLAND BANK BILL Third reading 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly QUARANTINE BILL Second reading 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly PRINCESS’S CUP 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly POLICE Salaries 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly PETITION From inhabitants of the district between 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly the New Farm Road and Bowen Bridge SUBHEADING DATE HOUSE PASTORAL LEASES BILL Third reading 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly PAPERS 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly MILITARY DEFENCES 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly LAND RECEIPT BILL 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly IPSWICH SCHOOL OF ARTS BILL Second reading 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly INQUESTS ON FIRES BILL 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly IMPOUNDING BILL Third reading 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly IMMIGRATION Salaries 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly IMMIGRATION 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH Funds 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly EDUCATION Distribution of funds 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly EDUCATION 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly CULTIVATION OF SUGAR 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly COMMERCIAL BANK BILL Third reading 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly CIVIL SERVICE BILL Third reading 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly BRISBANE WATERWORKS 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly BRISBANE INCORPORATION BILL Second reading 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly BATHURST BURR BILL Committee debate 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly WARWICK AGRICULTURAL RESERVE 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SUPPLY 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBDIVISION OF LAND BILL Third reading 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly QUARANTINE BILL 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly PILOT AT PORT DENISON 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly PAPERS 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly MESSAGES FROM THE GOVERNOR Assent Liens on 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly Crops Bill, Scab in Sheep Bill, Ordinance Bill and Winding-up of Companies Bill MARANOA DISTRICT 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly IPSWICH SCHOOL OF ARTS BILL Third reading 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly IMPROVEMENT OF RIVERS AND HARBORS 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly GLADFIELD RESERVE 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly DRAYTON AGRICULTURAL RESERVE 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly ADDITIONAL MEMBERS BILL 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SUPREME COURT BILL Committee debate 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Council RAILWAYS BILL Third reading 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Council RAILWAYS 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Council POLICE BILL Committee debate 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Council OYSTER FISHERIES Second reading 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Council MILITARY DEFENCES 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Council MESSAGES FROM THE GOVERNOR Assent Lien on 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Council Crops Bill, Scab in Sheep Prevention Bill, Military Lands Bill, and Trading Companies Bill MAGISTERIAL POWERS LIMITATION BILL Third 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Council reading DAYS OF SITTING 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Council COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Council SUBHEADING DATE HOUSE WAYS AND MEANS 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly TREASURY 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SURVEY OFFICE 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SUPPLY 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly RAILWAY GUAGE 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly QUARANTINE BILL 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly PUBLIC WORKS AND BUILDINGS Salaries 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly MARINE BOARD Salaries 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly LOAN BILL 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly LANDS AND WORKS Salaries 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly HARBORS &c Salaries 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly GLADFIELD RESERVE 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly GENERAL POST-OFFICE Salaries 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly CUSTOMS Salaries 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly CROWN PROSECUTOR 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly CHIEF COMMISSIONER OF CROWN LANDS Salaries 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly CHAMBERS MR CHAMBERS Re dismissal from the 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly Colonial Architect's Department BRISBANE WATER SUPPLY BILL Second reading 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly BRISBANE INCORPORATION BILL 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly AUDITOR-GENERAL Salaries 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly ALIENATION OF CROWN LANDS BILL Introduction 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly VAGRANT ACT AMENDMENT ACT Otherwise named 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Council Magisterial Powers Limitation Act Third reading RETURNS Money expended on the roads between 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Council Ipswich and Dalby and Warwick PUBLICANS BILL Committee debate 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Council POLICE BILL—RESUMPTION OF DEBATE 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Council OYSTER FISHERIES 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Council IPSWICH SCHOOL OF ARTS BILL Second reading 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Council INQUESTS ON FIRES BILL 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Council COMMERCIAL BANK BILL Second reading 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Council CIVIL SERVICE BILL Second reading 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Council WAYS AND MEANS 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly TELEGRAPH FROM DALBY TO ROCKHAMPTON 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SUPPLY 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly RUNS IN THE SETTLED DISTRICTS 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly MESSAGES FROM THE GOVERNOR Assent Bathurst 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly Burr Bill, Railway Bill, Imported Game Bill, and Census Bill LOAN BILL 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly JUSTICES’ POWERS LIMITATION BILL 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly INQUESTS ON FIRES BILL 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly GRANTS IN AID OF PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND WORKS Salaries 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBHEADING DATE HOUSE COLONIAL TREASURER’S DEPARTMENT Salaries 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly CHARITABLE ALLOWANCES 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly BOGIE ENGINE Three feet six gauge 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE Salaries 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly ADDITIONAL ESTIMATES FOR 1864 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SUPREME COURT BILL 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Council QUESTION OF ORDER 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Council QUARANTINE BILL 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Council PUBLICANS’ BILL—RESUMPTION OF COMMITTEE 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Council POLICE BILL—ADOPTION OF REPORT 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Council PASTORAL LANDS BILL 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Council MESSAGE FROM THE GOVERNOR Assent Bathurst 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Council Burr, the Railway, the Imported Game, and the Census Bills IMPOUNDING BILL Second reading 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Council COMMERCIAL BANK BILL Third reading 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Council PRINCESS’ CUP Trophy for upcoming regatta on 8 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly , commemorating the foundation of the colony of Queensland NEW MEMBERS Messrs Edmondstone and Brookes 8 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly MAIN ROADS COMMITTEE 8 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly LAND RECEIPT BILL Second reading 8 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly HARTLEY MR ABRAHAM HARTLEY 8 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly EDUCATION 8 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly DREDGE COMMITTEE 8 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly BREMER RIVER 8 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly RAILWAY GAUGE [3 feet six inches gauge; 4 feet 8 8 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly 1/2 inches gauge] SUPREME COURT BILL Third reading 8 Sep 1863 Legislative Council SUBDIVISION OF LANDS BILL 8 Sep 1863 Legislative Council PUBLICANS’ BILL 8 Sep 1863 Legislative Council PASTORAL LANDS OCCUPATION BILL Second reading 8 Sep 1863 Legislative Council OYSTER FISHERIES BILL 8 Sep 1863 Legislative Council IPSWICH SCHOOL OF ARTS BILL 8 Sep 1863 Legislative Council IMPOUNDING BILL 8 Sep 1863 Legislative Council CIVIL SERVICE BILL 8 Sep 1863 Legislative Council RESIDENCE OF MINISTERS 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly RAILWAY GAUGE 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly PRINCESS’ CUP 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly MARYBOROUGH LOCK-UP 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly MAIN ROADS COMMITTEE 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly LAND ORDERS FOR NEW ZEALAND VOLUNTEERS 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly LABATT CASE OF DR JONATHAN LABATT 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly EDUCATION 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly EAST MORETON ELECTION 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly COTTON CULTIVATION 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBHEADING DATE HOUSE ADDITIONAL MEMBERS BILL Second reading 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly TELEGRAPH Extension from Lytton to Cape Moreton 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Council QUEENSLAND BANK BILL Second reading 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Council PUBLICANS’ BILL 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Council POLICE BILL Third reading 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Council PASTORAL LANDS OCCUPATION BILL Committee 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Council debate OYSTER FISHERIES BILL Third reading 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Council IPSWICH SCHOOL OF ARTS BILL 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Council IMPOUNDING BILL 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Council HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT Accommodation therein 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Council FORM OF LEASE TO CROWN TENANTS [leasing of 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Council crown lands] COMMERCIAL BANK BILL Third reading 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Council CIVIL SERVICE BILL Third reading 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Council WAYS AND MEANS 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly WARWICK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly TOWN HALL Brisbane 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SURVEY OF RAILWAY ROUTES 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SUPREME COURT BILL 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SUPPLY 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly RETURNS 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly RAILWAY GAUGES GAUGES 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly RAILWAY GAUGE 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly QUEEN’S PLATE 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly POLICE BILL 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly PARLIAMENTARY REPORTS Re reporting of 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly parliamentary proceedings OYSTER FISHERIES BILL Second reading 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly MEMBERS’ DESKS 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly MAIN ROADS COMMITTEE 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly LOAN BILL 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly LANDS AND WORKS Salaries 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly INQUEST ON FIRES BILL 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly HARBOUR DEPARTMENT Salaries 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly CUSTOMS Salaries 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly COLONIAL SECRETARY’S DEPARTMENT Salaries 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly BRISBANE POST OFFICE 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly BRISBANE ANNUAL REGATTA 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly AGRICULTURAL RESERVES BILL Second reading 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly TELEGRAPH TO CAPE MORETON 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Council QUEENSLAND BANK BILL 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Council PUBLICANS’ BILL Third reading 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Council PARLIAMENT HOUSES 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Council IMPOUNDING BILL 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Council CIVIL SERVICE BILL Third reading 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Council SUBHEADING DATE HOUSE WITHDRAWALS Grants for "Queen's Plates" 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly WAYS AND MEANS 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly TOOWOOMBA AGRICULTURAL RESERVE 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SUPPLY 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly PUBLICANS’ BILL 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly PRINCESS’ REGATTA CUP 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly POINT OF ORDER Additional Members' Bill 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly PETITIONS From certain inhabitants of the town of 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly Maryborough re increased representation PETITIONS From certain inhabitants of the 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly Leichhardt district, re Native Police force PARLIAMENTARY BUILDINGS 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly OYSTER FISHERIES BILL 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly LOAN BILL Committee debate 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly LOAN BILL 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly LAND ORDER SYSTEM 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly IPSWICH SCHOOL OF ARTS BILL 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly INQUESTS ON FIRES BILL 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly IMMIGRATION 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly CIVIL SERVICE BILL 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly CITY OF BRISBANE TOWN HALL BILL 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly CHAMBERS Mr W H CHAMBERS’ CASE 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly BUILDINGS AND BRIDGES 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly BRISBANE WATER WORKS BILL 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly BREMER RIVER 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly ALTERATION OF SITTING DAYS 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly AGRICULTURAL RESERVES BILL Second reading 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly WAYS AND MEANS 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly TITLE DEEDS AND LAND IN AGRICULTURAL RESERVES 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SUPPLY 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SOUTH BRISBANE MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE BILL 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly RE-ASSESSMENT OF RUNS 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly PROPORTION OF REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly OYSTER FISHERIES BILL 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly LOAN BILL 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly INSTRUCTIONS TO THE IMMIGRATION AGENT 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly GENERAL POST OFFICE 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly FORFEITED RESERVES 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly DREDGING AT THE RIVER BAR 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly CLERK OF EXECUTIVE COUNCIL 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly BRISBANE WATER WORKS BILL Third reading 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly BRISBANE TOWN HALL BILL Third reading 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly BRISBANE DRY DOCK 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly APPROPRIATION BILL 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly APPROPRIATION BILL 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBHEADING DATE HOUSE AGRICULTURAL RESERVES BILL Committee debate 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly AGRICULTURAL RESERVES 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SOUTH BRISBANE MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE BILL 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly Second reading ROCKINGHAM BAY 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly RETURNING OFFICERS 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly POLLING PLACES 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly ORDERS IN COUNCIL 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly IMMIGRATION COMMITTEE 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly IMMIGRANTS PER WINTERTHUR 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly HEALTH OFFICER 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly GOVERNMENT LOAN BILL 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly BRISBANE DRY DOCK 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SUSPENSION OF STANDING ORDERS 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Council SUBDIVISION OF LANDS BILL Committee debate 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Council QUEENSLAND BANK BILL Third reading 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Council PUBLICANS' BILL 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Council PASTORAL LEASES BILL 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Council PASTORAL LANDS BILL 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Council MESSAGES FROM THE ASSEMBLY 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Council IMPOUNDING BILL 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Council ERECTION OF TOWN HALL BILL First reading 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Council CIVIL SERVICE BILL 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Council BRISBANE WATER WORKS BILL First reading 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Council WAYS AND MEANS 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly THE “NARROWS” Between the mainland and Curtis 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly Island SOUTH BRISBANE MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE BILL Third 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly reading SALARIES OF GOVERNMENT OFFICERS 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly POLICE MAGISTRATE AT GAYNDAH 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly LOAN BILL Second reading resumption 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly IMMIGRANTS PER WINTERTHUR 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly HEAD OF IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly HARTLEY PETITION OF ABRAHAM HARTLEY 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly GLADFIELD RESERVE 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly APPROPRIATION BILL 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly AGRICULTURAL RESERVES BILL Third reading 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBDIVISION OF LANDS BILL 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Council SUBDIVISION OF LANDS BILL 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Council SOUTH BRISBANE MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE BILL First 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Council reading PUBLICANS’ BILL 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Council PASTORAL LEASES BILL 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Council PARLIAMENT HOUSES 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Council IMPOUNDING BILL Third reading 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Council SUBHEADING DATE HOUSE CIVIL SERVICE BILL 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Council BRISBANE WATER WORKS 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Council BRISBANE WATER WORKS 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Council BRISBANE TOWN HALL BILL 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Council AGRICULTURAL RESERVES BILL First reading 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Council TRANSFER OF RUNS 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly TOWN HALL BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SUPPOSED MURDER BY BLACKS Of Mrs Roberts in 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly vicinity of Port McKay SOUTH BRISBANE MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly PUBLICANS’ BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly PASTORAL LEASES BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly PASTORAL LEASES BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly LOAN BILL Third reading 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly LOAN BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly IMPOUNDING BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly IMMIGRANTS PER WINTERTHUR 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly DISCHARGED SOLDIERS 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly CLAIM OF COLONEL O’CONNELL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly CIVIL SERVICE BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly CIVIL SERVICE BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly BRISBANE WATER WORKS BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly BRISBANE INCORPORATION BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly APPROPRIATION BILL Third reading 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly APPROPRIATION BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly WATER WORKS BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Council SUBDIVISION OF LAND BILL Third reading 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Council SOUTH BRISBANE MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Council Second reading SOUTH BRISBANE MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Council PUBLICANS’ BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Council PASTORAL LEASES BILL Third reading 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Council PASTORAL LEASES BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Council LOAN BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Council DESPATCH From his Grace the Duke of Newcastle 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Council upon the subject of transportation CIVIL SERVICE BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Council BRISBANE WATER WORKS BILL Third reading 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Council BRISBANE TOWN HALL BILL Third reading 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Council APPROPRIATION BILL First reading 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Council APPROPRIATION BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Council AGRICULTURAL RESERVES BILL Second reading 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Council AGRICULTURAL RESERVES BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Council LABATT DR LABATT 18 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly HARTLEY ABRAHAM HARTLEY 18 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly DUTY ON RUM 18 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBHEADING DATE HOUSE AGRICULTURAL RESERVES BILL 18 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly PROROGATION 18 Sep 1863 Legislative Council IMMIGRATION 18 Sep 1863 Legislative Council FORMS OF PROCEDURE 18 Sep 1863 Legislative Council AGRICULTURAL RESERVES BILL 18 Sep 1863 Legislative Council PROROGATION 22 Sep 1863 Legislative Council LIGHTHOUSES FOR RIVERS AND HARBORS 22 Sep 1863 Legislative Council IMMIGRATION SCHEME 22 Sep 1863 Legislative Council

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY and LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

Second Parliament – First Session

Record of Parliamentary Proceedings published in Courier, 1863

Alphabetical by subheadings

21 July 1863 – 22 September 1863

(Herbert Government)

INDEX

SUBHEADING DATE HOUSE ABSENCE OF MEMBERS 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Council ABSENCE OF MEMBERS 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Council ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY 7 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY 11 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly ADDITIONAL ESTIMATES FOR 1864 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly ADDITIONAL MEMBERS BILL 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly ADDITIONAL MEMBERS BILL Second reading 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly ADDITIONAL MEMBERS BILL Second reading 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly ADDITIONAL MEMBERS' BILL Second reading 25 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly resumption ADDITIONAL MEMBERS OF ASSEMBLY 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE Salaries 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly AGRICULTURAL RESERVES BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Council AGRICULTURAL RESERVES BILL 18 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly AGRICULTURAL RESERVES BILL 18 Sep 1863 Legislative Council AGRICULTURAL RESERVES BILL Committee debate 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly AGRICULTURAL RESERVES BILL First reading 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Council AGRICULTURAL RESERVES BILL Second reading 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly AGRICULTURAL RESERVES BILL Second reading 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly AGRICULTURAL RESERVES BILL Second reading 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Council AGRICULTURAL RESERVES BILL Third reading 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly AGRICULTURAL RESERVES 29 July 1863 Legislative Assembly AGRICULTURAL RESERVES 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly ALIENATION OF CROWN LANDS BILL Introduction 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly ALTERATION OF SITTING DAYS 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly APPROPRIATION BILL 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly APPROPRIATION BILL 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly APPROPRIATION BILL 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly APPROPRIATION BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly APPROPRIATION BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Council APPROPRIATION BILL First reading 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Council APPROPRIATION BILL Third reading 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly AUDITOR-GENERAL Salaries 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBHEADING DATE HOUSE AUDITOR-GENERAL Salaries 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly BANK OF QUEENSLAND INCORPORATION BILL 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly BAR 23 July 1863 Legislative Assembly BATHURST BURR BILL 29 July 1863 Legislative Assembly BATHURST BURR BILL 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly BATHURST BURR BILL 6 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly BATHURST BURR BILL 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Council BATHURST BURR BILL 21 Aug 1863 Legislative Council BATHURST BURR BILL 28 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly BATHURST BURR BILL Committee debate 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly BATHURST BURR BILL Second reading 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Council BATHURST BURR BILL Third reading 7 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly BATHURST BURR BILL Third reading 27 Aug 1863 Legislative Council BOGIE ENGINE Three feet six gauge 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly BONUS ON COTTON 7 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly BONUS TO GROWERS OF COTTON 31 July 1863 Legislative Assembly BOTANICAL GARDENS 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly BREMER RIVER 8 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly BREMER RIVER 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly BRIDGE AT BALONNE RIVER 7 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly BRIDGE AT CONDAMINE TOWNSHIP 7 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly BRIDGE AT TOOWOOMBA 18 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly BRIDGE OVER BUNGIL CREEK 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly BRIDGE OVER OXLEY CREEK 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly BRISBANE ANNUAL REGATTA 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly BRISBANE BRIDGE 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly BRISBANE BRIDGE 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly BRISBANE DRY DOCK 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly BRISBANE DRY DOCK 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly BRISBANE GAOL AND LUNATIC ASYLUM 11 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly BRISBANE INCORPORATION BILL 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly BRISBANE INCORPORATION BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly BRISBANE INCORPORATION BILL Second reading 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly BRISBANE POLICE 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly BRISBANE POST OFFICE 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly BRISBANE TOWN HALL BILL 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Council BRISBANE TOWN HALL BILL Third reading 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly BRISBANE TOWN HALL BILL Third reading 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Council BRISBANE WATER SUPPLY BILL Second reading 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly BRISBANE WATER WORKS BILL 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly BRISBANE WATER WORKS BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly BRISBANE WATER WORKS BILL First reading 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Council BRISBANE WATER WORKS BILL Third reading 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly BRISBANE WATER WORKS BILL Third reading 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Council BRISBANE WATER WORKS 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Council SUBHEADING DATE HOUSE BRISBANE WATER WORKS 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Council BRISBANE WATERWORKS 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly BROOKES PETITION OF WILLIAM BROOKES 30 July 1863 Legislative Assembly BUILDINGS AND BRIDGES 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly CENSUS BILL 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CENSUS BILL 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Council CENSUS BILL 27 Aug 1863 Legislative Council CENSUS BILL Assented 28 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CENSUS BILL Committee debate 18 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CENSUS BILL Second reading 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CENSUS BILL Second reading 21 Aug 1863 Legislative Council CENSUS BILL Third reading 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CENSUS BILL Third reading 28 Aug 1863 Legislative Council CHAMBERS MR CHAMBERS Re dismissal from the 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly Colonial Architect's Department CHAMBERS Mr W H CHAMBERS’ CASE 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly CHARGE AGAINST MR HARRIS And three troopers of 29 July 1863 Legislative Council the Native Police CHARITABLE ALLOWANCES 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly CHIEF COMMISSIONER OF CROWN LANDS Salaries 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly CIRCUIT COURT AT GAYNDAH 11 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CIRCUIT COURT AT WARWICK 6 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CITY OF BRISBANE INCORPORATION BILL 25 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CITY OF BRISBANE TOWN HALL BILL 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly CIVIL SERVICE BILL 6 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CIVIL SERVICE BILL 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CIVIL SERVICE BILL 18 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CIVIL SERVICE BILL 8 Sep 1863 Legislative Council CIVIL SERVICE BILL 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly CIVIL SERVICE BILL 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Council CIVIL SERVICE BILL 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Council CIVIL SERVICE BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly CIVIL SERVICE BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly CIVIL SERVICE BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Council CIVIL SERVICE BILL Committee debate 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CIVIL SERVICE BILL Committee debate 25 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CIVIL SERVICE BILL Committee debate 27 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CIVIL SERVICE BILL Second reading 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CIVIL SERVICE BILL Second reading 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Council CIVIL SERVICE BILL Third reading 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly CIVIL SERVICE BILL Third reading 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Council CIVIL SERVICE BILL Third reading 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Council CLAIM OF COLONEL O’CONNELL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly CLERK OF EXECUTIVE COUNCIL 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly CLERK OF PETTY SESSIONS, IPSWICH 28 July 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBHEADING DATE HOUSE COLONIAL ARCHITECT Salaries 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly COLONIAL SECRETARY’S DEPARTMENT Salaries 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly COLONIAL TREASURER’S DEPARTMENT Salaries 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly COMMERCIAL BANK BILL 30 July 1863 Legislative Assembly COMMERCIAL BANK BILL 25 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly COMMERCIAL BANK BILL 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly COMMERCIAL BANK BILL Second reading 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Council COMMERCIAL BANK BILL Third reading 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly COMMERCIAL BANK BILL Third reading 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Council COMMERCIAL BANK BILL Third reading 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Council COMMERCIAL BANK INCORPORATION BILL 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly COMMERCIAL BANKING COMPANY OF SYDNEY 4 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly COMMERICAL BANK OF SYDNEY 18 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly COMMISSIONERS OF CROWN LANDS 27 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Council COMPANIES BILL 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly COMPANIES BILL Second reading 21 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly COMPANIES BILL Third reading 27 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS TO HER MAJESTY 29 July 1863 Legislative Assembly CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS TO HER MAJESTY 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CONSTITUTION OF LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CONSTITUTION OF THE COUNCIL 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Council COOTE PETITION OF MR W COOTE 31 July 1863 Legislative Assembly CORONERS Salaries 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CORPORATION ENDOWMENTS 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Council CORRESPONDENCE 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Council COTTON BONUS 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly COTTON CULTIVATION 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly COTTON RESOLUTIONS 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Council CROWN PROSECUTOR AT IPSWICH 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CROWN PROSECUTOR AT IPSWICH 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CROWN PROSECUTOR 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly CULTIVATION OF SUGAR 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly CUSTOMS Salaries 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly CUSTOMS Salaries 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly CUSTOMS Salaries 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly DAYS OF BUSINESS 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Council DAYS OF SITTING 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Council DAYS OF SITTING 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Council DELEGATES TO INTERCOLONIAL CONFERENCE 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND WORKS Salaries 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly DESPATCH From his Grace the Duke of Newcastle 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Council upon the subject of transportation DISCHARGED SOLDIERS 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly DISEASES IN SHEEP BILL 29 July 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBHEADING DATE HOUSE DISEASES IN SHEEP PREVENTION BILL 31 July 1863 Legislative Assembly DISMISSAL OF MR CHAMBERS 25 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly DIVORCE 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Council DRAYTON AGRICULTURAL RESERVE 25 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly DRAYTON AGRICULTURAL RESERVE 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly DRAYTON AGRICULTURAL RESERVES 30 July 1863 Legislative Assembly DRAYTON AND TOOWOOMBA AGRICULTURAL 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly RESERVE DREDGE COMMITTEE 8 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly DREDGING AT THE RIVER BAR 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly DREDGING OPERATIONS AT THE RIVER BAR 28 July 1863 Legislative Assembly DUTY ON RUM 18 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly EAST MORETON ELECTION 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly EDUCATION 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Council EDUCATION 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly EDUCATION 8 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly EDUCATION 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly EDUCATION Distribution of funds 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly ELECTION OF A SPEAKER 21 July 1863 Legislative Assembly ELECTIONS AND QUALIFICATIONS 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly ELECTIVE UPPER HOUSE 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH Funds 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly EMIGRATION TO THE COLONY OF QUEENSLAND 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Council ERECTION OF TOWN HALL BILL First reading 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Council EVIDENCE BEFORE SELECT COMMITTEE ON 28 July 1863 Legislative Assembly EMIGRATION EXHIBITION MEDALS 29 July 1863 Legislative Council EXPENDITURE ON ROADS 6 Aug 1863 Legislative Council EXPENDITURE 28 July 1863 Legislative Assembly FACILITATION OF AGRICULTURE BILL First reading 25 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly FIRES BILL 28 July 1863 Legislative Assembly FISHERIES 21 Aug 1863 Legislative Council FISHING REGULATIONS IN MORETON BAY 7 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly FORFEITED RESERVES 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly FORM OF LEASE TO CROWN TENANTS [leasing of 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Council crown lands] FORMS OF PROCEDURE 18 Sep 1863 Legislative Council GENERAL POST OFFICE 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly GENERAL POST-OFFICE Salaries 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly GERMAN IMMIGRANTS 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly GERMAN IMMIGRANTS 21 Aug 1863 Legislative Council GERMAN IMMIGRANTS 28 Aug 1863 Legislative Council GERMAN IMMIGRATION AGENT 22 July 1863 Legislative Assembly GERMAN IMMIGRATION AGENT 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly GERMANS RESIDENT AT TOOWOOMBA 29 July 1863 Legislative Assembly GLADFIELD RESERVE 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBHEADING DATE HOUSE GLADFIELD RESERVE 25 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly GLADFIELD RESERVE 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly GLADFIELD RESERVE 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly GLADFIELD RESERVE 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly GOVERNMENT LOAN BILL 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly GRANTS FOR RELIGIOUS PURPOSES 29 July 1863 Legislative Assembly GRANTS IN AID OF PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly GRANTS OF LAND TO COTTON GROWERS 7 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly HARBORS &c Salaries 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly HARBOUR DEPARTMENT Salaries 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly HARRIS CASE OF LIEUTENANT HARRIS 28 July 1863 Legislative Assembly HARTLEY ABRAHAM HARTLEY 25 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly HARTLEY ABRAHAM HARTLEY 18 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly HARTLEY MR ABRAHAM HARTLEY 8 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly HARTLEY PETITION OF ABRAHAM HARTLEY 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly HAWKERS' AND PEDLERS' BILL 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Council HAWKERS' AND PEDLERS' BILL Second reading 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Council HAWKERS' AND PEDLERS’ BILL 31 July 1863 Legislative Assembly HAWKERS’ AND PEDDLERS’ BILL Third reading 4 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly HAWKERS’ AND PEDLERS’ BILL 30 July 1863 Legislative Assembly HAWKERS’ AND PEDLERS’ BILL Second reading 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Council HEAD OF IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly HEALTH OFFICER 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly HER MAJESTY’S PORTRAIT 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Council HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT Accommodation therein 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Council HULK “JULIA PERCY” AND SCHOONER “ERA” 18 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly IMMIGRANTS PER WINTERTHUR 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly IMMIGRANTS PER WINTERTHUR 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly IMMIGRANTS PER WINTERTHUR 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly IMMIGRATION COMMITTEE 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly IMMIGRATION DEPOT AT TOOWOOMBA 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly IMMIGRATION DEPOTS IN INTERIOR 25 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly IMMIGRATION DEPOTS 18 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly IMMIGRATION DEPOTS 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly IMMIGRATION RETURNS 21 Aug 1863 Legislative Council IMMIGRATION RETURNS 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Council IMMIGRATION SCHEME 22 Sep 1863 Legislative Council IMMIGRATION 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly IMMIGRATION 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly IMMIGRATION 18 Sep 1863 Legislative Council IMMIGRATION Salaries 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly IMPORTED GAME BILL 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly IMPORTED GAME BILL 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Council IMPORTED GAME BILL 27 Aug 1863 Legislative Council IMPORTED GAME BILL Assented 28 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBHEADING DATE HOUSE IMPORTED GAME BILL First reading 7 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly IMPORTED GAME BILL Second reading 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly IMPORTED GAME BILL Second reading 21 Aug 1863 Legislative Council IMPORTED GAME BILL Third reading 18 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly IMPORTED GAME BILL Third reading 28 Aug 1863 Legislative Council IMPOUNDING ACT AMENDMENT BILL Introduced 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly IMPOUNDING BILL 8 Sep 1863 Legislative Council IMPOUNDING BILL 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Council IMPOUNDING BILL 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Council IMPOUNDING BILL 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Council IMPOUNDING BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly IMPOUNDING BILL Committee debate 28 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly IMPOUNDING BILL Second reading 25 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly IMPOUNDING BILL Second reading 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Council IMPOUNDING BILL Third reading 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly IMPOUNDING BILL Third reading 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Council IMPROVEMENT OF RIVER BETWEEN BRISBANE AND 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly IPSWICH IMPROVEMENT OF RIVERS AND HARBORS 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly INQUEST ON FIRES BILL 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly INQUEST ON FIRES BILL Committee debate 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Council INQUESTS ON FIRES BILL 6 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly INQUESTS ON FIRES BILL 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly INQUESTS ON FIRES BILL 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly INQUESTS ON FIRES BILL 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Council INQUESTS ON FIRES BILL 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Council INQUESTS ON FIRES BILL 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly INQUESTS ON FIRES BILL 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly INQUESTS ON FIRES BILL Committee debate 28 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly INQUESTS ON FIRES BILL Second reading 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Council INQUESTS ON FIRES BILL Third reading 7 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly INQUESTS ON FIRES BILL Third reading 21 Aug 1863 Legislative Council INQUESTS ON FIRES BILL Third reading 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Council INSOLVENCY RETURNS 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Council INSOLVENCY RETURNS 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Council INSOLVENCY 29 July 1863 Legislative Council INSOLVENT LAWS 11 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly INSTRUCTIONS TO THE IMMIGRATION AGENT 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly INTERCOLONIAL CONFERENCE 21 Aug 1863 Legislative Council INTESTATE ESTATES AMENDMENT BILL 29 July 1863 Legislative Assembly INTESTATE ESTATES DISTRIBUTION BILL Second 11 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly reading IPSWICH AND TOOWOOMBA ROAD 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly IPSWICH GRAMMAR SCHOOL 27 Aug 1863 Legislative Council IPSWICH RECREATION GROUND 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBHEADING DATE HOUSE IPSWICH SCHOOL OF ARTS BILL 25 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly IPSWICH SCHOOL OF ARTS BILL 8 Sep 1863 Legislative Council IPSWICH SCHOOL OF ARTS BILL 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly IPSWICH SCHOOL OF ARTS BILL 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Council IPSWICH SCHOOL OF ARTS BILL Second reading 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly IPSWICH SCHOOL OF ARTS BILL Second reading 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Council IPSWICH SCHOOL OF ARTS BILL Third reading 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly IPSWICH SCHOOL OF ARTS 7 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly ISLANDS IN MORETON BAY 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Council ISLANDS IN THE BAY 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Council JURY LAWS 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly JUSTICES’ POWERS LIMITATION BILL 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly LABATT CASE OF DR JONATHAN LABATT 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly LABATT DR LABATT 25 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly LABATT DR LABATT 18 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly LAIDLEY POUND 29 July 1863 Legislative Assembly LAND BETWEEN BRISBANE AND IPSWICH 27 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly LAND ORDER SYSTEM 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly LAND ORDERS FOR NEW ZEALAND VOLUNTEERS 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly LAND ORDERS 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Council LAND RECEIPT BILL 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly LAND RECEIPT BILL Second reading 8 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly LANDS AND WORKS Salaries 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly LANDS AND WORKS Salaries 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly LAW OFFICERS OF THE CROWN Salaries 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly LICENSED PUBLICANS’ BILL 7 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly LIEN ON CROPS BILL 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly LIENS ON CROPS BILL 30 July 1863 Legislative Assembly LIENS ON CROPS BILL 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Council LIENS ON CROPS BILL Second reading 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Council LIENS ON CROPS BILL Third reading 6 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly LIENS ON CROPS BILL Third reading 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Council LIENS ON YEARLY CROPS BILL 22 July 1863 Legislative Assembly LIGHTHOUSES FOR RIVERS AND HARBORS 22 Sep 1863 Legislative Council LIGHTHOUSES 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Council LOAN BILL 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly LOAN BILL 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly LOAN BILL 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly LOAN BILL 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly LOAN BILL 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly LOAN BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly LOAN BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Council LOAN BILL Committee debate 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly LOAN BILL Second reading resumption 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly LOAN BILL Third reading 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBHEADING DATE HOUSE MAGISTERIAL POWERS LIMITATION BILL Third 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Council reading MAGISTRATES POWERS LIMITATION BILL Second 18 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly reading MAGISTRATES POWERS LIMITATION BILL Second 27 Aug 1863 Legislative Council reading MAGISTRATES POWERS LIMITATION BILL Third 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly reading MAGISTRATES’ POWERS LIMITATION BILL 28 Aug 1863 Legislative Council MAGISTRATES’ POWERS LIMITATION BILL 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly Committee debate MAIN ROAD THROUGH DALBY 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly MAIN ROADS AND BRIDGES 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly MAIN ROADS COMMITTEE 8 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly MAIN ROADS COMMITTEE 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly MAIN ROADS COMMITTEE 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly MARANOA DISTRICT 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly MARINE BOARD Salaries 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Council MARYBOROUGH LOCK-UP 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly MATRIMONIAL CAUSES JURISDICTION BILL 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Council MEMBERS’ DESKS 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly MESSAGE FROM THE GOVERNOR Assent Bathurst 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Council Burr, the Railway, the Imported Game, and the Census Bills MESSAGES FROM THE ASSEMBLY 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Council MESSAGES FROM THE GOVERNOR Assent Bathurst 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly Burr Bill, Railway Bill, Imported Game Bill, and Census Bill MESSAGES FROM THE GOVERNOR Assent Lien on 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Council Crops Bill, Scab in Sheep Prevention Bill, Military Lands Bill, and Trading Companies Bill MESSAGES FROM THE GOVERNOR Assent Liens on 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly Crops Bill, Scab in Sheep Bill, Ordinance Bill and Winding-up of Companies Bill MILITARY BARRACKS 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly MILITARY DEFENCES 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly MILITARY DEFENCES 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Council MILITARY LANDS BILL 31 July 1863 Legislative Assembly MILITARY LANDS BILL 6 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly MILITARY LANDS BILL 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Council MILITARY LANDS BILL 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Council MILITARY LANDS BILL 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly MILITARY LANDS BILL Second reading 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Council MILITARY LANDS BILL Third reading 7 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly MILITARY LANDS BILL Third reading 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Council MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly MR COOTE AND THE MORETON BAY TRAMWAY 30 July 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBHEADING DATE HOUSE COMPANY MR FITZGIBBON 27 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly MR FITZGIBBON’S REPORT 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Council MR JUSTICE LUTWYCHE 6 Aug 1863 Legislative Council MR JUSTICE LUTWYCHE 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Council MUNICIPALITIES’ ENDOWMENTS 31 July 1863 Legislative Assembly NATIONAL AND COLONIAL EMIGRATION SOCIETY 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly NEW MEMBERS Hons J F M’DOUGALL, A W 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Council COMPIGNE, and J M’CONNELL NEW MEMBERS Messrs Edmondstone and Brookes 8 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly NORTHERN ROADS 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly NORTHERN ROADS 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly NORTHERN ROADS 18 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly NORTHERN ROADS Committee debate 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly OFFICIAL SURVEY MARKS’ BILL 22 July 1863 Legislative Council ORDERS IN COUNCIL 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly OYSTER FISHERIES BILL 8 Sep 1863 Legislative Council OYSTER FISHERIES BILL 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly OYSTER FISHERIES BILL 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly OYSTER FISHERIES BILL Second reading 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly OYSTER FISHERIES BILL Third reading 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Council OYSTER FISHERIES 27 Aug 1863 Legislative Council OYSTER FISHERIES 28 Aug 1863 Legislative Council OYSTER FISHERIES 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Council OYSTER FISHERIES Second reading 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Council PAPERS 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly PAPERS 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly PAPERS Re late importation of South Sea Islanders 21 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly by the Don Juan PAPERS Asked for by Mr Mackenzie with reference 18 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly to expenditure PAPERS Certain returns re assessment of the Darling 28 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly Downs PAPERS Copy of the deed of land granted to the 27 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly trustees of the Ipswich Grammar School PAPERS National and Colonial Emigration Society 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PAPERS Re Julia Percy 25 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PAPERS Returns of endowments to the different 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly municipalities of the colony PARLIAMENT HOUSES 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Council PARLIAMENT HOUSES 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Council PARLIAMENTARY BUILDINGS 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly PARLIAMENTARY REPORTS Re reporting of 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly parliamentary proceedings PASTORAL LANDS BILL 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Council PASTORAL LANDS BILL 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Council PASTORAL LANDS OCCUPATION BILL Committee 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Council SUBHEADING DATE HOUSE debate PASTORAL LANDS OCCUPATION BILL Second reading 8 Sep 1863 Legislative Council PASTORAL LEASES BILL 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PASTORAL LEASES BILL 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Council PASTORAL LEASES BILL 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Council PASTORAL LEASES BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly PASTORAL LEASES BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly PASTORAL LEASES BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Council PASTORAL LEASES BILL Committee debate 21 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PASTORAL LEASES BILL Committee debate 25 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PASTORAL LEASES BILL Second reading 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PASTORAL LEASES BILL Third reading 27 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PASTORAL LEASES BILL Third reading 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly PASTORAL LEASES BILL Third reading 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Council PASTORAL OCCUPATION BILL 28 July 1863 Legislative Assembly PETITION FROM JAMES SKELTON 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PETITION FROM TURNKEYS 31 July 1863 Legislative Assembly PETITION FROM WARWICK Re system of primary 18 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly education PETITION 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Council PETITION Mr J King, only survivor of Burke and Wills 29 July 1863 Legislative Council expedition

PETITION From 50 members of the Church of 21 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly England, inhabitants of Toowoomba, re education PETITION From 50 members of the Church of 21 Aug 1863 Legislative Council England, inhabitants of Toowoomba, re education PETITION From 58 members of the Church of 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Council England in Warwick PETITION From inhabitants of the district between 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly the New Farm Road and Bowen Bridge PETITION From members of the Church of England in 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly Warwick PETITION From Rockhampton re land order system 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PETITIONS OF MR ALEXANDER AND THE REVS 29 July 1863 Legislative Assembly MESSRS BRACKENRIDGE AND POOLE PETITIONS ON EDUCATION 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PETITIONS 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Council PETITIONS From 215 members of the Church of 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly England in North Brisbane PETITIONS From Abraham Hartley, of Jondaryan re 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly police magistrate of the Condamine PETITIONS From Bishop of Brisbane and the clergy of 18 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly his diocese PETITIONS From certain inhabitants of the 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly Leichhardt district, re Native Police force PETITIONS From certain inhabitants of the town of 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly Maryborough re increased representation SUBHEADING DATE HOUSE PETITIONS From Darling Downs inhabitants on 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly education PETITIONS From Dr Labatt 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PETITIONS From James Skelton, Chief Constable of 18 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly Dalby PETITIONS From persons settled on Redcliffe 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly agricultural reserve PETITIONS From residents in Fortitude Valley on 18 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly primary education PILOT AT PORT DENISON 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly PLEURO-PNEUMONIA 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly POINT OF ORDER Additional Members' Bill 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly POLICE BILL 6 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly POLICE BILL 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly POLICE BILL 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly POLICE BILL Committee debate 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly POLICE BILL Committee debate 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Council POLICE BILL First reading 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Council POLICE BILL Second reading 28 Aug 1863 Legislative Council POLICE BILL Third reading 25 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly POLICE BILL Third reading 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Council POLICE BILL—ADOPTION OF REPORT 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Council POLICE BILL—RESUMPTION OF DEBATE 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Council POLICE FORCE AMENDMENT BILL 29 July 1863 Legislative Assembly POLICE MAGISTRATE AT CONDAMINE 7 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly POLICE MAGISTRATE AT CONDAMINE 11 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly POLICE MAGISTRATE AT GAYNDAH 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly POLICE Salaries 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly POLLING PLACES 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS 29 July 1863 Legislative Council POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT 29 July 1863 Legislative Assembly POWERS OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE 11 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PRINCE OF WALES’ MARRIAGE 6 Aug 1863 Legislative Council PRINCESS’ CUP 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly PRINCESS’ CUP Trophy for upcoming regatta on 8 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly Brisbane River, commemorating the foundation of the colony of Queensland PRINCESS’ REGATTA CUP 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly PRINCESS’S CUP 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly PRINTING COMMITTEE 28 July 1863 Legislative Assembly PROCLAMATION 21 July 1863 Legislative Council PROPORTION OF REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly PROPOSED STATION AT CAPE YORK 29 July 1863 Legislative Assembly PROROGATION 18 Sep 1863 Legislative Council PROROGATION 22 Sep 1863 Legislative Council PUBLIC WORKS AND BUILDINGS 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBHEADING DATE HOUSE PUBLIC WORKS AND BUILDINGS Salaries 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly PUBLIC WORKS—NORTHERN DISTRICTS 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PUBLIC WORKS—SOUTHERN DISTRICTS 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PUBLICANS' BILL 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Council PUBLICANS BILL Committee debate 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Council PUBLICANS BILL Third reading 25 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PUBLICANS’ ACT 11 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PUBLICANS’ BILL 8 Sep 1863 Legislative Council PUBLICANS’ BILL 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Council PUBLICANS’ BILL 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly PUBLICANS’ BILL 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Council PUBLICANS’ BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly PUBLICANS’ BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Council PUBLICANS’ BILL Committee debate 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PUBLICANS’ BILL First reading 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Council PUBLICANS’ BILL Second reading 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly PUBLICANS’ BILL Second reading 28 Aug 1863 Legislative Council PUBLICANS’ BILL Third reading 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Council PUBLICANS’ BILL—RESUMPTION OF COMMITTEE 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Council QUARANTINE BILL 28 July 1863 Legislative Council QUARANTINE BILL 29 July 1863 Legislative Council QUARANTINE BILL 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Council QUARANTINE BILL 6 Aug 1863 Legislative Council QUARANTINE BILL 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Council QUARANTINE BILL 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Council QUARANTINE BILL 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Council QUARANTINE BILL 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Council QUARANTINE BILL 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly QUARANTINE BILL 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly QUARANTINE BILL 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Council QUARANTINE BILL First reading 27 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly QUARANTINE BILL Second reading 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly QUARANTINE BILL Third reading 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Council QUEEN’S PLATE 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly QUEENSLAND BANK BILL 6 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly QUEENSLAND BANK BILL 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly QUEENSLAND BANK BILL 25 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly QUEENSLAND BANK BILL 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly QUEENSLAND BANK BILL 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Council QUEENSLAND BANK BILL Second reading 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Council QUEENSLAND BANK BILL Third reading 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly QUEENSLAND BANK BILL Third reading 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Council QUESTION OF ORDER 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Council QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE Re article headed Decrease 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly of Aboriginals SUBHEADING DATE HOUSE QUESTIONS 28 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly RAILWAY BILL 4 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly RAILWAY BILL 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly RAILWAY BILL 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Council RAILWAY BILL 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Council RAILWAY BILL—RESUMPTION OF EXAMINATION OF 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Council WITNESSES RAILWAY BILLS 28 July 1863 Legislative Assembly RAILWAY COMMUNICATION 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly RAILWAY GAUGE 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly RAILWAY GAUGE 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly RAILWAY GAUGE [3 feet six inches gauge; 4 feet 8 8 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly 1/2 inches gauge] RAILWAY GAUGES GAUGES 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly RAILWAY GUAGE 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly RAILWAY PLANT 4 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly RAILWAY 28 Aug 1863 Legislative Council RAILWAYS BILL 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly RAILWAYS BILL Committee debate 11 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly RAILWAYS BILL Committee debate 28 Aug 1863 Legislative Council RAILWAYS BILL Second reading 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Council RAILWAYS BILL Second reading 27 Aug 1863 Legislative Council RAILWAYS BILL Third reading 18 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly RAILWAYS BILL Third reading 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Council RAILWAYS BILL—RESUMPTION OF EXAMINATION 27 Aug 1863 Legislative Council RAILWAYS 22 July 1863 Legislative Assembly RAILWAYS 21 Aug 1863 Legislative Council RAILWAYS 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Council RAILWAYS Rockhampton 28 July 1863 Legislative Assembly REAL ESTATE BILL 21 Aug 1863 Legislative Council REAL ESTATE OF INTESTATES BILL 18 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly REAL ESTATE OF INTESTATES BILL 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Council REAL ESTATE OF INTESTATES DISTRIBUTION BILL 4 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly REAL ESTATE OF INTESTATES DISTRIBUTION BILL 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly Third reading RE-ASSESSMENT OF RUNS 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly REDCLIFFE RESERVE 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly REDCLIFFE RESERVE Petition 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT 25 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly REMOVAL OF BRISBANE POLICE 11 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly RENT AND ASSESSMENT ON RUNS 7 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly REPORT OF LIEUTENANT HARRIS, OF THE NATIVE 29 July 1863 Legislative Assembly POLICE REPORTED SHIPWRECK AT MORETON ISLAND 28 July 1863 Legislative Assembly REPRESENTATION OF MINISTERS 11 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly RESERVES ON LINES OF RAILWAY 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBHEADING DATE HOUSE RESERVES 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly RESIDENCE OF MINISTERS 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly RETURNING OFFICERS 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly RETURNS FROM COUNTRY DISTRICTS 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly RETURNS 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly RETURNS Money expended on the roads between 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Council Ipswich and Dalby and Warwick RIVER FRONTAGES AT ROCKHAMPTON 29 July 1863 Legislative Assembly RIVERS AND HARBOURS 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly ROAD BETWEEN IPSWICH AND DALBY 4 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly ROAD BETWEEN IPSWICH AND THE MAIN RANGE 30 July 1863 Legislative Assembly ROAD BETWEEN IPSWICH AND TOOWOOMBA 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly ROAD BETWEEN IPSWICH AND WIVENHOE 7 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly ROAD FROM IPSWICH TO DALBY 6 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly ROAD FROM IPSWICH TO TOOWOOMBA 29 July 1863 Legislative Assembly ROAD TO WARWICK 30 July 1863 Legislative Assembly ROADS AND BRIDGES 31 July 1863 Legislative Assembly ROADS COMMITTEE 4 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly ROADS IN WIDE BAY DISTRICT 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly ROCKHAMPTON RIVER FRONTAGE 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly ROCKINGHAM BAY 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly RULES OF SUPREME COURT 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Council RUNS IN THE SETTLED DISTRICTS 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SALARIES OF GOVERNMENT OFFICERS 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SALE OF LAND 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SCAB [sheep scab] 23 July 1863 Legislative Assembly SCAB BILL 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SCAB BILL Committee debate 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SCAB IN SHEEP BILL 28 July 1863 Legislative Assembly SCAB IN SHEEP BILL 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Council SCAB IN SHEEP BILL 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Council SCAB IN SHEEP BILL Committee debate 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Council SCAB IN SHEEP BILL Second reading 6 Aug 1863 Legislative Council SCAB IN SHEEP BILL Third reading 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Council SELECT COMMITTEE ON PRIVILEGES 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Council SHERIFF Salaries 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE 28 Aug 1863 Legislative Council SOUTH BRISBANE MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE BILL 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SOUTH BRISBANE MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SOUTH BRISBANE MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Council SOUTH BRISBANE MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE BILL First 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Council reading SOUTH BRISBANE MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE BILL 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly Second reading SOUTH BRISBANE MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Council Second reading SUBHEADING DATE HOUSE SOUTH BRISBANE MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE BILL Third 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly reading SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS 18 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS 26 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SQUATTING RETURNS 6 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly STOCK AND ASSESSMENT RETURNS 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly STOCKHOLDERS ON THE WARREGO 11 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBDIVISION OF LAND BILL 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBDIVISION OF LAND BILL 18 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBDIVISION OF LAND BILL 28 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBDIVISION OF LAND BILL Committee debate 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBDIVISION OF LAND BILL Committee debate 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBDIVISION OF LAND BILL Second reading 11 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBDIVISION OF LAND BILL Third reading 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBDIVISION OF LAND BILL Third reading 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Council SUB-DIVISION OF LAND FOR BUILDING PURPOSES 4 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBDIVISION OF LANDS BILL 8 Sep 1863 Legislative Council SUBDIVISION OF LANDS BILL 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Council SUBDIVISION OF LANDS BILL 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Council SUBDIVISION OF LANDS BILL Committee debate 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Council SUPPLY 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUPPLY 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUPPLY 18 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUPPLY 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUPPLY 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SUPPLY 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SUPPLY 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SUPPLY 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SUPPLY 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SUPPLY 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SUPPLY 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SUPPOSED MURDER BY BLACKS Of Mrs Roberts in 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly vicinity of Port McKay SUPREME COURT BILL 28 July 1863 Legislative Assembly SUPREME COURT BILL 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUPREME COURT BILL 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUPREME COURT BILL 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Council SUPREME COURT BILL 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SUPREME COURT BILL Committee debate 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUPREME COURT BILL Committee debate 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Council SUPREME COURT BILL Second reading 27 Aug 1863 Legislative Council SUPREME COURT BILL Third reading 20 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUPREME COURT BILL Third reading 8 Sep 1863 Legislative Council SUPREME COURT Salaries 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBHEADING DATE HOUSE SURVEY OF LAND Salaries 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly SURVEY OF RAILWAY ROUTES 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SURVEY OFFICE 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SUSPENSION OF STANDING ORDERS 15 Sep 1863 Legislative Council TELEGRAPH BETWEEN TOOWOOMBA AND DALBY 27 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly TELEGRAPH FROM DALBY TO CONDAMINE 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly TELEGRAPH FROM DALBY TO ROCKHAMPTON 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly TELEGRAPH FROM LYTTON TO THE BAY 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly TELEGRAPH TO CAPE MORETON 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Council TELEGRAPH Extension from Lytton to Cape Moreton 9 Sep 1863 Legislative Council THE “NARROWS” Between the mainland and Curtis 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly Island THE FOURTH MINISTER 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Council TITLE DEEDS AND LAND IN AGRICULTURAL RESERVES 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly TOOWOOMBA AGRICULTURAL RESERVE 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly TOWN HALL BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly TOWN HALL Brisbane 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly TOWNSHIP OF ST LAURENCE 11 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly TRADING COMPANIES BILL 13 Aug 1863 Legislative Council TRADING COMPANIES’ BILL Committee debate 12 Aug 1863 Legislative Council TRADING COMPANIES’ BILL Third reading 19 Aug 1863 Legislative Council TRADING COMPANY’S WINDING UP BILL 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Council TRANSFER OF RUNS 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly TRANSFERRING POWERS AND ESTATES OF 29 July 1863 Legislative Assembly ORDNANCE BILL TREASURY 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly TREASURY Salaries 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly VAGRANT ACT AMENDMENT ACT Otherwise named 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Council Magisterial Powers Limitation Act Third reading WARWICK AGRICULTURAL RESERVE 1 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly WARWICK AGRICULTURAL RESERVE 2 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly WARWICK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly WASTE LANDS 6 Aug 1863 Legislative Council WATER POLICE HULK 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Council WATER WORKS BILL 17 Sep 1863 Legislative Council WAYS AND MEANS 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly WAYS AND MEANS 7 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly WAYS AND MEANS 14 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly WAYS AND MEANS 21 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly WAYS AND MEANS 28 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly WAYS AND MEANS 3 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly WAYS AND MEANS 4 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly WAYS AND MEANS 10 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly WAYS AND MEANS 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly WAYS AND MEANS 14 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly WAYS AND MEANS 16 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly SUBHEADING DATE HOUSE WHARF AT ROCKHAMPTON 31 July 1863 Legislative Assembly WHARF AT ROCKHAMPTON 5 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly WHARF AT ROCKHAMPTON 7 Aug 1863 Legislative Assembly WINDING UP TRADING COMPANIES 29 July 1863 Legislative Council WITHDRAWAL OF MOTION Portrait of Her Majesty 29 July 1863 Legislative Council WITHDRAWALS Grants for "Queen's Plates" 11 Sep 1863 Legislative Assembly WORKING OF THE IMMIGRATION LAWS 28 July 1863 Legislative Assembly

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY and LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

Second Parliament – Second Session

Queensland Parliamentary Debates, 1st series, V.1, 1864

26 April 1864 - 13 September 1864

(Herbert Government)

INDEX

PAGE NOS DATE HOUSE 1 - 5 26 April 1864 Legislative Council 5 - 13 26 April 1864 Legislative Assembly 13 - 17 27 April 1864 Legislative Council 17 27 April 1864 Legislative Assembly 18 - 20 28 April 1864 Legislative Assembly 20 - 21 3 May 1864 Legislative Council 21 - 27 10 May 1864 Legislative Council 27 - 30 10 May 1864 Legislative Assembly 30 - 34 11 May 1864 Legislative Council 34 11 May 1864 Legislative Assembly 34 - 43 12 May 1864 Legislative Assembly 44 - 50 13 May 1864 Legislative Assembly 50 - 53 17 May 1864 Legislative Council 53 - 81 17 May 1864 Legislative Assembly 81 - 96 19 May 1864 Legislative Assembly 96 - 106 20 May 1864 Legislative Assembly 106 - 107 25 May 1864 Legislative Council 107 - 118 25 May 1864 Legislative Assembly 118 - 132 26 May 1864 Legislative Assembly 132 - 133 31 May 1864 Legislative Council 133 - 148 31 May 1864 Legislative Assembly 148 - 156 1 June 1864 Legislative Council 156 - 161 1 June 1864 Legislative Assembly 161 - 182 2 June 1864 Legislative Assembly 182 14 June 1864 Legislative Council 182 - 185 19 July 1864 Legislative Assembly 185 - 186 20 July 1864 Legislative Council 186 - 189 20 July 1864 Legislative Assembly 189 - 196 21 July 1864 Legislative Assembly 196 26 July 1864 Legislative Council 196 - 213 26 July 1864 Legislative Assembly 213 - 215 27 July 1864 Legislative Council 215 - 228 27 July 1864 Legislative Assembly 228 - 229 28 July 1864 Legislative Council 229 - 236 28 July 1864 Legislative Assembly PAGE NOS DATE HOUSE 236 - 239 29 July 1864 Legislative Assembly 239 - 242 2 August 1864 Legislative Council 242 - 251 2 August 1864 Legislative Assembly 251 3 August 1864 Legislative Council 251 - 258 3 August 1864 Legislative Assembly 258 - 259 9 August 1864 Legislative Council 259 - 266 9 August 1864 Legislative Assembly 266 - 267 10 August 1864 Legislative Council 267 - 269 10 August 1864 Legislative Assembly 269 - 273 11 August 1864 Legislative Council 273 - 279 11 August 1864 Legislative Assembly 279 - 281 12 August 1864 Legislative Assembly 281 - 283 16 August 1864 Legislative Council 284 - 292 16 August 1864 Legislative Assembly 292 - 296 17 August 1864 Legislative Assembly 296 - 300 19 August 1864 Legislative Council 300 - 301 23 August 1864 Legislative Council 301 - 307 23 August 1864 Legislative Assembly 307 - 308 25 August 1864 Legislative Council 308 - 311 25 August 1864 Legislative Assembly 311 - 315 26 August 1864 Legislative Council 315 - 322 26 August 1864 Legislative Assembly 322 - 323 30 August 1864 Legislative Council 323 - 330 30 August 1864 Legislative Assembly 330 31 August 1864 Legislative Council 330 - 337 31 August 1864 Legislative Assembly 337 - 339 1 September 1864 Legislative Council 339 - 345 1 September 1864 Legislative Assembly 345 - 348 2 September 1864 Legislative Council 348 6 September 1864 Legislative Council 348 - 351 6 September 1864 Legislative Assembly 351 - 356 7 September 1864 Legislative Assembly 356 - 358 13 September 1864 Legislative Council

QUEENSLAND

PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES:

FIRST SERIES.

27o AND 280 VIOTORI£, 1864.

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YOI~. I.

COMPRISING THE PERIOD FROM I

'J:HE TWENTY-SIXTH DAY OF APRIL, TO THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF SEPTEl\tiBER, 1864.

:BRISBANE:

BY Al''r.HORITY: W. C. BELBRIDGE, GOYERN~IENT PRINTER, WILLIAM STREET.

1 8 6 4. TABLE OF CONT.ENTS

TO

VOL. 1.

FIRST SERIES.

I. SuBJECTS OF DEBATE IN THE LEGISLATIVE CouNCIL. II. SuBJECTs OF DEBATE IN THE LEGISLATIVE AssEMBLY. III. LIST OF DIVISIONS. IV. LrsT OF ·rHE MEMBERS AT THE CoMMENCEMENT OF THE SEsSION. V. ALPHABETICAL INDEX.

I.-SUBJECTS OF DEBATE IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. 1864. PAGE, 4.pril26. :JHeeting of Parliament.-The Vice Regal Speech.-Postage Act Amendment Bill, read 1°.-Address in Reply to Opening Speech.-Address agreed to without ·amendment 1 27. Absen~ l\!Iembers.-Motion for Committee of Enquiry.-Additional Powers to Trustees of Public Lands Bill, read 1°.-Limitation of Sale of Liquors Bill, read 1° ... 13 1!fay 3. Address of Congratulation.-Trustees of Public Lands Bill, read 2° 20 10. Commission of the Peace.-Issue of Blankets to Aborigines 21 11. The Public Funds (Question).-Parliamentary Draftsman (Question).-Condition ~~M~~ W 17. Fourth Responsible Minister 50 25. Railway Plans.-Lighthouses 106 31. Sitting Days.-Trade and Commerce Bill, read 2°,-Privileges Committee.­ Trustees of Public Lands Bill (adoption of Report) 132 June 1. Days of Sitting (Suspension of Sessional Order).-Grammar Schools Act Amend­ ment Bill, read 2°.-Militarv Contribution Bill, read 2°.-Southern and Western Railway:...... • ...... 148 14. Trade Marks Bill, read 2".-Licensed Auctioneers Bill, read 2° 182 July 20. Marriage Laws Bill, read 2° 185 27. New Parliament Buildings Commission 213 28. Jury Laws Amendment Bill, read 2o ... 228 4.Uf!. 2. Reformatory Boys.-New Parliamentary Buildings Commission (Resumption of Debate).-Matrimonial Causes Bill, read 2".- Deceased Wife's Sister Bill (motion for second reading) 239 3. Crown Agency 251 9. New Parliament Buildings.-Jury Bill (adoption of Report) 2;)8 10. Publicans Act Amendment Bill, read 2° 266 11. Intestate Real Estates Bill (motion for second reading) .-Grammar Schools Act Amenclmeut Bill (Legislat-ive Assembly's meR"age).-Recovery of Small Debts Bill, read 2" 269 iv. TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PAGE. A~tg. 16. Careless use of Fire Prevention Bill, read 2°.-Public Buildings Bill, read 2o 281 19. Gold Export Duty Bill, read 2o.-Municipalities Act Amendment Bill, read 2o.­ Roads Enclosure Bill, read 2°.-Civil Service Act Extension Bill, read 2o 296 23. Constitution of Legislative Council Bill (motion for second reading).-Additional Members Bill, read 2o . .. 300 25. Report of Committee on Reformatory Boys .. . 307 26. The Board of Education.-Immigration Bill, read 2°.-Pastoral Lands Assessment Bill, read 2o 311 30. Insolvency Bill, read 2° .. . 322 31. Reform of Aborigines 330 Sept. 1. Provincial Councils Bill, read 2°.-Cultivation of Sugar.-Gas Company's Bill, read 2°.-Settlement of Accounts with 337 2. Railway between Rockhampton and Westwood.-Subdivision.of Land Bill (motion for second reading).-Writ of Summons Bill, read 2°.-Loan Bill, read 2°.­ Appropriation Bill, read 2°.-Law of Evidence Amendment Bill, read 2°,-Jury Bill (Legislative Assembly's Message) 345 6. Additional Lighthouses.-Railway Act Amendment Bill, read 2°.-Bank of New• South Wales Incorporation Bill, read 2° · 348 13. Prorogation of Parliament.-Address to His Excellency~-A.ssent to Bills.-The Vice Regal Speech 356

!I.-SUBJECTS OF DEBATE IN THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY. 1864. April 26. Meeting of Parliament.-Attendance of Members in the Council Chamber, to hear His Excellency's Speech.-Civil Service Act of 1863 Extension Bill, read lD.­ Addl·ess in reply to His Excellency's Speech.-Motion of Mr. Bell, seconded by Dr. Qhallinor, for an Adili•ess to the Governor in answer to His Excellency's Speech.-Address agreed to ... 5 28. Presentation of Address in Reply to Opening Speech.-Government Savings Banks Bill, read !D.-Trade Marks Bill, read !D.-Provincial Councils Bill, read 1D.­ Pastoral Assessment Bill, read 1D.-Licensed Auctioneers Bill, read 1D.-Military Contribution Bill, read lD.-Birth of a Royal Prince, Address of Congratula­ tion.-Adjoumment to lOth May 18 May 10. Committee of Elections· and Qualifications.-Impounded Stock.-Dissolution of First .-Pleuro-pneumonia.-Electoral Bill, read !D.­ Intestacy Bill, read 1".-Brisbane Bridge Bill, read 1".-Bills discharged from ~~~ 12. Committee of Elections and Qualifications.-Municipal Institutions Bill, read 1°.­ . Trade and Commerce Bill, read !D.-Wholesale Liquors Bill, read !D.-Light Dues Bill, read lD.-Pre-emptive Purchases.-Office of Sheriff.-Roads in the Drayton Agricultural Reserve,_:.Banking Business of Queensland.-Forfeitures in Agricultural Reserves.-Sureties of Public Officers.-Hours• of Sitting on Fridays... 34 13. Question of Privilege.-Mercantile Law Amendment Bill, read 2".-Wholesale Liquors Selling Bill, read 2o.-Motion for Returns.-Boundary Line at Ipswich.-Railway Guage . 44 17. ]'oowoomba German Lutheran Mission.-Public Works.-Powers of the Legis­ lature.-Brisbane Gas Company.-Hours of Sitting on Fridays.-Gradients and Curves of Railway, from Gatton Creek to Summit of Main Range.-Clerk of Petty Sessions at Gladstone.-Approval of Plans, Sections, and Book of Reference of Line of Railway from Little Liverpool to Dalby 53 19. Electoral Reform.-Pastoral Assessment Bill, read 2°.-Mercantile Law Amend­ ment Bill, read 3°.-Wholesale Liquors Bill, read 3° 81 20. Petition.-Military Contribution Bill, read 2°.-Governmcnt Savings Bank Bill, read 2°.-Ciril Service Act Extension Bill, read 2° 96 TABLE OF CONTENTS. V.

PAGE. May 25. Receipts 'and Expenditure of Electric Telegraph Lines.-Provincial Government BilL-Resignation and Return of Mr. Henry Jordan, Emigration Commissioner.­ Rivers and Harbors.-Leichhardt Election.-Correspondence relative to 3 feet 6)nche,e guage Railways.-Grammar Schools Act Amendment Bill, read 2o 107 26. Provincial Councils Bill, read 2°.-Licensed Auctioneers Bill, read 2°.-Resumption of Debate on the Civil Service Act Extension Bill 118 31. Premiums for Agricultural 'Products.-Marriage Bill, read 2°.-Intestate Real Estate Bill, read 2°.-Electoral Bill, read 2o 133 June 1. Site of the Brisbane" Gas Works.-Philosophical Society.-Moneys paid to New South Wales.-Premiums for the encouragement of Agriculture.-Insolvency Bill, read 2o 156 2. Financial Statement.-Dismissal of Michael Bindon.-Subdivision of Land Bill, read 2°.-Adjourmnent to 19th July 161 July 19. New Parliament Houses -Ipswich School of Arts.-Appointment of Members to paid Offices ... 182 20. Grant to Presbyterian Church.-Harbors and Rivers.-Ipswich School of Arts.­ Philosophical Society ... 186 21. Supply. .:...... Municipal Institutions Bill, read 2°.-Trustees of Public Lands Bill, read 2°.-Decrease of Duty on Tobacco.-Marriage Bill, read 3° 189 26. Immigration Committee'~ Report 196 27. The Rev. Dr. Lang.-Alleged outrage in the Warrego District.-The Volunteers.­ Cultivation and Manufacture of Tobacco.-Government Printing.-Premiums for the encouragement of Agriculture.-Immigration Report (Resumption of Debate) 215 28. Maranoa Election.-Personal Explanation.-Additional Members Bill, read 2° ... 229 29. Brisbane Bridge ... 236 Aug. 2. Lockyer's Creek.-Small Debts Recovery Bill, read 2°.-Railway Commissioners ··· Bill.-Innnigration Bill, read 2° 24.2 3. Queensland Acclimatisation Society.-Proposed New Houses of Parliament.­ Triennial Parliaments Bill (motion for secondreading).-LegislativeBusiness.­ Light Dues Bill, read 2° 251 9. Mr. Frederick Walker.-Mr. J. L. Hay.-Summary Ejectment Bill (motion for second reading).-Proposed remission of Duty on Unmanufactured Tobacco.­ Public Buildings Bill, read 2° 259 10. Tobacco Duty.-Electoral Roll for District of Maranoa 267 11. Gold Export Duty Bill, read 2° 273 12. Enclosure of Roads Bill, read 2°.-Supply 279 16. Cabulture Cotton Company.-Board of General Education.-Marriage Bill, read 2o.-Jury Bill, read 2° 284 17. Rev. , D.D.-Matrimonial Causes Jurisdiction Bill, read 2°... 292 23.· Cultivation of Sugar and Coffee.-Payment to New South Wales Government for furnishing the Old Government House 301 25. Pleuro-pneumonia in Cattle.---,Electoral Bill (motion for committal of) ... 308 26. Reform of Aborigines.-Northern Railway.-Rents of Crown Lands.-Electoral Bill (discharged from the paper).-Provincial Councils Bill (motion for committal of).-Proposed Line of Railway from Toowoomba to Warwick... 315 30. Extra Services of the Registrar-GeneraL-Railway from Toowoomba to Warwick (Resumption of Debate).-Anniversary Regatta.-Additional Salary to Emigra­ tion Agent.-Immigrants per" Fortitude" and" Chaseley."-Northern Traflic.­ Supreme Court Amendment Bill, read 2°.-Bl'isbane Gas Company Bill, read 2° 323 31. Reservation of Agricultural Lands.-Lying-in Hospital.-Alienation of Crown Lands Amendment Bill (motion for second reading).-Appointment of Commis­ sioner for settlement of accounts with New South Wales.-Appropriation Bill, read 2o.-Evidence Bill, read 2°.-Export Duty on Gold Bill (Privilege) 330 Sept. 1. Railway Bill, read 2°.-Grant of Land to Freemasons.-Illegal Collection of Gold Duty.-Brisbane Bridge.-Bank of New South Wales Bill, read 2°.-Careless use of Fire Prevention Bill, read 2° 339 6. Railway between Maryborol~gh and Gayndah.-Rivers and Harbors 348 7. Servants' llomc.-Navigation of the Fitzroy.-The Prorogation 351 vi. TABLE OF CONTENTS.

IlL-LISTS OF DIVISIONS.

Legislative Couneil. PAGE.

Commission of the Peace-on the Honorable St. G. R. Gore moving the previous Question ...... 27 Fourth Responsible Minister-on the Honorable Dr. Hobbs' motion for a Select Committee to consider and report upon the withdrawal of the Fourth Respon­ sible Minister from the House 53 Southern and Western Railway-on the resolution approving of Plans, Sections, and Book of Reference 155 Deceased Wife's Sister Bill-on the motion for Second Reading 242 Grammar Schools Act Amendment Bill-on the Honorable J. Bramston's motion to agree to Legislative Assembly's amendment ... 272 Public Buildings Act-on the motion for Second Reading . . . 282 Subdivision of Land Bill-on the Honorable J. Harris' amendment that the Bill be read a second time this day six months 346

• Legislative Assembly.

On the motion for the adjournm~nt of the House to the lOth May... 20 On Mr. Mackenzie's motion for a Select Committee to inquire into the condition of the Sheriff's 0 ffice .. . 40 Question of Privilege-on Mr. Lilley's motion that a letter referring to him be read to the House .. . 46 Hours of Sitting on Friday-on Mr. Bell's motion for an alteration from three o'clock p.m. to ten o'clock a.m. 59 Railway from Little Liverpool to Dalby, approval of Plans, Sections, &e.-on Mr. Mackenzie's amendment to adjomn the Debate ... 78 Adoption of Resolutions... 81 Election of Edmund Royds, Esquire, M.L.A.-on Mr. Douglas' motion to refer the question to the Committee of Elections and Qualificationo... 114 Premiums for Agricultural Products-on Mr. Pugh's amendment ... 135 Marriage Bill-on Mr. R. Cribb's motion for Second Reading of 139 Electoral Bill-on Mr. Brookes' amendment that the Bill be read a Second time this day six months... 148 Philosophical Society-on Mr. Brookes' motion for a•grant in aid of 159 Subdivision of Land Bill-on the motion for Second Reading 182 Appointment of Members to paid Offices-on Mr. R. Cribb's motion against the... 185 Marriage Bill-on the motion for Third Reading · 195 Immigration Committee's Report-on Mr. McLean's motion to adjourn the debate 213 .Alleged Outrage in the Wal'l'ego District-on Mr. R. Cribb's motion to adjourn the debate 218 Cultivation and Manufacture of Tobacco-on Dr. Challinor's motion for remission of duty on .. . 221 Premiums for the Encouragement of Agriculture-on Mr. McLean's motwn for grant of money 223 Immigration Report-on Mr. Bell's amendment that the Committee be re-appointed, and the Report re-considered 228 Additional Members Bill-on the motion for Second Reading 236 Triennial Parliaments Bill-on the Attorney-General's amendment that the Bill be read a second time this day six months .. . 258 Summary Ejcctment Bill-on the Attorney-General's amendment that the Bill be read a second time this day six months .. . 264 Proposed Remission of Duty on Unmanufactured Tobacco-on Dr. Challinor's motion in favor of .. . 26f> Gold Export Duty Bill-on Mr. Lilley's amendment that the Bill be read a Second time this day six months 2i9 TABLE OI!' CONTENTS. vn.

PAGE. Board of General Education-on Mr. Douglas' motion in reference to 290 Railway from Toowoomba to W arwick-on Mr. Edwards moving the previous Question 325 Immigrants per "Fortitude" and "Chaseley"-on Mr. Pugh's motion for grant of land in favor of 329 Grant of Land to Freemasons-on Mr. Coxen's motion for... 341 Illegal Collection of Gold Duty-on the amel)dment of the Colonial Treasurer that the previous Question be now put... 344

IV.-LIST OF MEMBERS AT THE COM~IENCEMENT OF THE SESSION. THE MINISTRY. Colonial Secretary-The Honorable ROBERT GEORGE WYNDHAM HERBERT. (W6St lJ.Ioreton.) Colonial Treasurer-The Honorable THOMAS DE LACY MoFFATT. (Western Downs.) Attorney-General-The Honorable RA'rCLIFFE PRING. (Ipswich.) l\Iinister for Lands and Works-The Honorable ARTHtrR MACAJ,ISTER. (Ipswich.)

LEGISLATIVE 00UNCn. The President-The Honorable MADRICE CHARJ,ES 0' List rif 1Wembe1·s. The Honorable FRANCIS EDWARD BIGGE. The Honorable .JOHN BRAlliSTON. The Honorable EYLES lRWIN CAtrLFEILD BROWNE. 'l'he Honorable HENRY BATES FITZ. The Honorable GllORGE FULLERTON. The Honorable ,JOHN .JA:\iES GALLOWAY. The Honorable ST. GEORGE RrcHAr­ The Honorable GEORGE HARRIS. The Honorable WrLLIAM HoBBS. The lionorable Lours HoPE. The Honorable .TAMES LAIDLEY. The Honorable vVILLIAM LANDRBOROUGH. The Honorable J'oHN McCONNEL. Tl1e Honorable JoHN FREDERICK McDouGALL. The.Honorable FRANCIS NORTH. The Honorable DANIEL Fm,EY ROBERTS. The Honorable STEPHEN SIMPSON. The Honorable RICHARD JosEPH SJIIIT"i. The Honorable JoHN WATTS. The Honorable, WILJ,IAM DucKE'rT vVHI'rE. The Honorable WESTERN WooD.

LEGISLA'l'IVE AssE'Irm.Y.

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JooHFA PE'l'El{ 'Hlcf.T,, l~squi1·~ (JVe.,·t .vfore/ou.) l:HART.ES vVrLLTAl\1 Br..Hn:NEY, EilqHire (B,·i.bane\. '•VlLL!Ali BnooKE~, E;quirt: (B,·isLaM). I-Il:NRY CrrH.I.INOR. E,cjuire (Jpwiclt). CHARLES COX EN, E~qttiPe, Chairntan of Colnlnitte()S (~~·o!/flie1'l4 Do~[ n. .,). riii. TABLE OF CONTENTS.

BENJAMIN CRIBll, Esq1;1ire (West Mor-eton). RoBERct' CRIBB, Esquire (East Mor-eton). • JOHN DOUGLAS, Esquire (Port Our-tis). GEORGE EDMONDSTONE, Esquire (East Moreton). JOHN EDWARDS, Esquire (Bwrn.ett). WrLLIAM HENRY GROOM, Esquire (Dr-ayton and Tomvoomba). The Honorable ROBERT GEORGE WYNDHAM HERBERT, Colonial Secretary (West Mor~ton). WILLIAM FRANCIS KENNEDY, Esquire (Mamnoa). CHARLES LILLEY, Esquire (Fortitude Valley). • The Hono~:a~le , Secretary for Lands and Works (Ipswich). ROBERT RAMSAY MACKENZIE, Esquire (Burnett). JoHN DoNALD McLEAN, Esquire (Eastern Downs). The Honorable THOMAS DE LACY MoFFATT, Colonial Treasurer (Western Downs). THEOPHILUS PARSONS PUGH, Esquire (Brisbane). 'Ihe Honorable , Attorney-General (Ipswich). EDMUND MOLYNEUX ROYDS, Esquire (Leiokkardt). GORDON SANDEMAN, Esquire (Leickkardt). THOMAS BLACKET STEPRENS, Esquire (South Brisbane). JAMES TAYLOR, Esquire (W:estern Downs). ARNOLD WrENHOLT, Esquire (Warwick). .ALPHABETICAL INDEX

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QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES.

Aborigines, issue of blankets to, 27. 47.-Wholesale Liquors Bill, 48.-Powers of Aborigines, condition of, 31. the Legislature, 55.-Electoral Reform, 91.­ Aborigines, reform of, 315, 330. Trade Marks, 96.-Military Contribution, Absent Members, 13. 98.-Civil Service Act, 105.-Leichhardt Acclimatisation Society of Queensland, 251. Election, 111.-Grammar Schools, 117.­ Accounts with New South Wales, appointment Intestate Estates, 140.-Insolvency, 160.­ of Commissioners, 336. Financial Statement-Michael Bindon, Additional Lighthouses, 348. 180.-Philosophical Society, 189.-Trustees Additional Members Bill, 229, 301. of Public Lands, 194.-Immigration Com­ Additional Salary to Emigration Agent, 325. mittee, 209.-0utrage in Warrego District, Address inreply to Vice-Regal Speech, 2, .5, 18. 218.-Small Debts Recovery, 244.-Triennial Address to His Excellency the Governor, 356. 'Parliaments, 257.-Summary Ejectment, 262. Address, presentation of, 18, 20. -Tobacco Duty, 267.-Gold Duty, 277, Address of Congratulation, 18, 20. 343.-Jury Bill, 291.-Furniture of old Adjournment of the House, 18, 182. Government House, 305.-Supreme Court Adjournment of debate on Civil Service Act, 106. Amendment, 329.-Law of Evidence, 336. Adjournment of debate on Immigration Com­ Auctioneers, Licensed, 124, 182. mittee's Report, 213., Adjournment of debate on New Parliament Bank of New South Wales, 345, 3~S. Houses, 215. Banking business of Queensland, 40. Adjournment of debate on Warwick Railway, 322. BELL, JosHUA PETER, Esquire (West M01·eton) : Agency, Crown, 251. Address in reply to Opening Speech, 6.­ Agent, Emigration, additional salary of, 325. Friday Sittings, 43, 57.-Electoral Reform, Agricultural Lands, reservation of, 330. 88.-Pastoral Assessment, 93.-Government Agricultural Reserves, forfeitures in, 42. Savings Banks, 103.-Rivers and Harbors, Agricultural Reserve, roads in the Drayton, 42. 109, 186, 349.-Grammar Schools, 116.­ Agriculture, premiums for the encouragement of, Civil Service ,.Act, 131.-Encouragement of 133, 160, 221. Agriculture, 135, 222.-Marriage Bill, 138.­ Alienation of Crown Lands, 332. Electoral Bill; 147.-Insolvency, 161.-New Alleged outrage in the W arrego District, 215. Parliament Houses, 183.-Ipswich School of Anniversary Regatta, 325. Arts, 184.-Immigration Committee, 209, Appointment of Commissioner for settlement of 223.-Cultivation and Manufacture of accounts with New South Wales, 336. Tobacco, 220.-Personal explanation, 229.­ Appointment of Members to paid offices, 184. Brisbane Bridge, 237.-Lockyer's Creek, Appropriation Bill, 336, 347. 243.-Railway Commissioners, 248.-Legis­ Approval of Railway Plans, 62, 149, 316, 345. lative business-Light Dues, 258.-Summary Asse$sment of Pastoral Lands, 92, 315. Ejectment, 263.-Tobacco Duty, 265.­ Assent to Bills, 356. Roll for Maranoa, 269.-Gold Duty, 278.­ ATTORNEY-GENERAL, The Honorable RATOLIFFE Cabulture Cotton Company, 284.--Rev. Dr. PRING (Ipswiak): Address in reply to Open­ Lang, 294.-Cultivation of Sugar and ing Speech, 12.-Adjournment of the House, Coffee, 302.-Furniture for old Government 19.-0ffice of Sheriff, 36.-Question of Pri­ House, 305.-Rents of Crown Lands­ vilege, 45.-M0reantile Law Amendment, Provincial Councils, 318.-Salary of Emigra­ 2 INDEX.

tion Agent, 325.-Alienation of Crown Causes, 2•tl.-Crown Agency, 251.-Intestate Lands, 334.-Grant to Freemasons, 341.­ Real Estates, 270.-Small Debts Recovery, Careless use of Fire, 345. 272.-Public B nildings Bill, 282.--Gold Duty, BIGGE, The Honorable FRANCIS EDWARD: Ab· -Municipalities Act, 296.-Enclosure of sent Members, 14.-Blankets to Aboriginals, Roads, 297.-Civil Service Act, 298.-Consti­ 27.-Marriage Laws, 186.-New Parliament tution of Legislative Council, 300.-Addi­ Houses, 240.-Intestate Real Estates, 571.­ tional Members, 301.-Immigration Bill, 312. Careless use of Fire, 282.-Constitution of -Pastoral Lands Assessment, 315.-Insol­ Legislative Council, 300.-Cultivation of vency, 322.-Reform of Aborigines, 330.­ Sugar, 338. Provincial Councils, 337.-Cultivation of Bindon, Michael, dismissal of, 1RO. Sugar, 338.-Rockhampton anq Westwood Bills discharged from the Paper, 30. Railway, 345.-Subdivision of Land, 346.­ Birth of a Royal Prince, 18. Writs of Summons-Loan Bill-Appropria­ BLAKENEY, CHARLES WILLIAM, Esquire (Bris­ tion Bill-Evidence Bill-Jury Bill, 347.­ bane) : Addrqss in reply to Opening Speech, Railway Act Amendment, 348. H.-Adjournment of the House, 19.-Pre· Bridge over the Brisbane, 236, 344. emptive right, 34.-Forfeitures in Agricul· Brisbane Gas Company, 56. tural Reserves-Suretie;l of public officers­ Brisbane Gas Company, Site of Works, 156. Question of Priviloge, 44.-Motion for Brisbane Gas Company Bill, 329. Returns-Boundary Line at Ipswich, Brisbane, Bridge over, 236, 344. 48.-Friday Sittings, 58.-Railway Plans BROOKES, WILLIAM, Esquire (North B1isbane): and Sections, 70, 80.-Eleotoral Reform, 84. Adjournment of the House, 19.-0flice of -Government Savings Banks, 101.-Leich· Sheriff', 38.-Banking Business of Queens­ hardt Election, 112.-Provincial Councils, land, 42.--Question ofPrivilege, 45.--Brisbanc 123.-Licensed Auctioneers, 124.-Civil Gas Company, 56.-Gradients and Curves, Service Act, 125.-Intcatate Estates, 140.­ 61.-Railway Plans, 78.-Electoral Reform, Electoral Bill, 142.-Insolvency, 161.­ 81, 140·-New Parliament Houses, 96,183.­ Financial Statement, 179.-Subdivision of Military Contribution, 98.-Government Land, 181.-Immigration Committee, 209.­ Savings Banks, 103.-Leichhardt Election, 0utrage in the Warrego District, 217.-Cul­ 114.-GrammarSchools Act, 117.--Provincial tivation of Tobacco, 219.-Additional Mem· Councils, 124, 319.-Encouragement of Agri­ hers, 230.-Brisbane Bridge, 237.-Small culture, 135, 223.-Marriage Bill, 139.­ Debts Recovery, 243.-Triennial Parliaments, Electoral Bill, 147.-Brisbane Gas Works, 254.-Summary Ejectment, 263.-Roll for 156.-Philosophical Society, 159, 188.­ Maranoa, 269.-Gold Duty, 278.-Marriage Financial Statement, 180.-Supply, 189.­ Bill-Jury Bill, 291.-Matrimonial Causes, Immigration Committee, 209, 224.-Brisbane 295.-Furniture for old Government House, Bridge, 237, 344.-Small Debts Recovery, 305. -Electoral Bill, 309. - Anniversary 244.-Railway Commissioners, 251.-Culti­ Regatta, 325.-Supreme Court Amendment, vation of Sugar and Coffee, 302.-Immigrants 329.-Settlement of Accounts with New per "Fortitude" and " Chaseley," 328.­ South Wales, 336.-Railway Bill, 339. Reservation of Agricultural Lands, 331.­ Blankets, issue of, to Aboriginals, 27. Lying-in Hospital, 332.-Grant to Free­ Board of General Education, 285, 311. masons, 341. Boys, Reformatory, 239, 307. BROWNE, The Honorable EYLES IRWIN CA.UL­ BRAThfSTON, The Honorable J:OHN : Postage Act FEILD : Address in Reply to Opening Speech, Amendment, 2.-Address in reply to Open­ 3.-Absent Members, 14.-Commission of ing Speech, 5.-Absent Members, 13.-Ad­ tho Peace, 21.-Sitting Days, 132.-Southern dress of Congratulation, 20.-Trustees of and Western Railway, 155.-NewParliament Public Lands, 21.-Commission of the Peace, Houses, 215, 240.-Matrimonial Causes, 241. 23.-Blankets to Aborigines, 27.-Public -PublicansAct, 267.-SmallDebts Recovery, Funcls-'-Parliamentary Draft.$man, 30.­ 272. - Careless Use of Fire - Public Conditionof Aborigines, 32.--Fourth Respon­ Buildings, 282.-Reformatory Boys, 307.­ sible Minister, 52.-Railway Plans, 106.­ Board of General Education, 312.-Insol­ Days of Sitting, 132, 118.-Trade and Com­ vency, 323.-Subdivision of Land-Writs of merce-Privileges Committee, 132.-Gram­ Summems, 347. mar Schools, 149, 271.-MilitaryContribution Boundary Line at Ipswich, 48. -Southern and Western Railway, 149, 155. Buildings, New Parliamentary, 96, 182, 213, 240, -Trade Marks-Licensed Auctioneers, 182. 253, 258. -Marriage Laws, 186.-New Parliament Buildings, Public, 265, 282. Houses, 213, 240, 258.-Jury Bill, 228, 259. Business, Legi~lative, 258. -RI'formatory Boys, 239, 307.-:J:Iatrimonial Business, Banking, uf Queenshncl, ·10. INDEX.

Cabulture Cotton Company, 284. mittee, 108, 201, 224.-Leichhardt Election, Careless Use of Fire Prevention Bill, 281, 345. 113.-Grammar Schools Act, 115.-Provin­ Cattle, Pleuro-pneumonia in, 29, 308. cial Councils, 122.-Marriage Bill, 138.-­ CrrALLINOR, HENRY, Esquire (Ipswich) : Address Electoral Bill, 140.-Brisbane Gas Works, in Reply to Opening Speech, 6.-Elections and 157.-Furniture of old Government House, Qualifications Committee, 27.-Pre-emptive 160, 304. Financial Statement, 174.­ l{ight, 34.-0ffice of Sheriff, 38.-Question Michael Bindon, 180.-Subdivision of Land, of Privilege, 4-4.-Brisbane Gas Company, 181-Acljournment of the House, 182.-New 57, 158.- Friday Sittings, 58.- Railway Parliament Houses, 183.-Appointment of Plans, 76.-Electoral Reform, 90.-Pastoral Members to Paid Offices, 184.-Philosophical Assessment, 93.-Mili~y Contribution, 98. Society, 188.-Supply, 189.-Trustees of -Government Savings Banks, 102.-Leich­ Public Lands, 194.--Rev. Dr. Lang, 215.­ hardt Election, 113.-Grammar Schools Act, 0utrage in Warrego District, 217.-Cultiva­ 116.-Provincial Councils, 123.-Liconsed tion and Manufacture of Tobacco, 219.­ Auctioneers, 124.-Civil Service Act, 131.­ Additional Members, 229.-Brisbane Bridge, Encouragement of Agriculture, 134, 222.­ 238.-Triennial Parliaments, 256.-Legisla­ Marriage Bill, 139.-Electoral Bill, 145.­ tive Business, 258.-Mr. Frederick Walker, Financial Statement, 180.-Subdivision of 260.-Tobacco Duty-Roll for Maranoa, Land, 181.-Ipswich School of Arts, 188.­ 268.-Marriage Bill, 290.-Rev. Dr. Lang, Municipal Institutions, 192.-Trustees of 293.-Cultivation of Sugar and Coffee, 302.­ Public Lands, 194.-Tobacco Duty, 195, 264, Electoral Bill, 309, 318.-Reform of Abori­ 267.-Immigration Committee, 203, 211, 226. gines, 315.-Provincial Councils, 319.-Extra -Outrage in the Warrego District, 215.­ Services of Registrar-General, 323.-Anni­ Volunteers-Cultivation of Tobacco, 218. versary Regatta, 325.-Salary of Emigration -Brisbane Bridge, 237.-Lockyer's Creek, Commissioner, 326.-Immigrants per "For­ 21·3.-Small Debts Recovery, 244.­ titude" and " Chaseley," 327. Lying-in Railway Commissioners, 248. - Public Hospital, 332.-Alienation of Crown Lands, Buildings, 266.-Roll for Maranoa, 269.­ 335.-Settlement of Accounts with New Gold Duty, 276.-Marriage Bill, 290.-Jury South Wales, 336.-Grant to Freemasons, Bill, 292.-Rev. Dr. Lang, 294.-Matrimonial 340.-Gold Duty-Brisbane Bridge, 344. Causes, 296.-Cultivation of Sugar and Coffee, -Servants' Home, 352.-Prorogation of 302.-Furniture for old Government House, Parliament, 356. 305.-Rcnts of Crown Lands, 317.-Extra Collection of Gold Duty, illegal, 341. Services of Registrar-General, 323.-War­ Commission of the Peace, 21. wick Railway, 324.-Anniversary Regatta, Commission, New Parliament Buildings, 96, 182, 325. -Immigrants per " Fortitude" and 213, 240, 253, 258. "Chaseley," 327.-Reservation of Agricul­ Commissioners, Railway, Bill, 244. tural Lands, 331.-Lying-in Hospital, 332.­ Commissioner of Emigration, resignation of, 108. Alienation of Crown Lands, 334.-Settle­ Commissioner for Settlement of Accounts with ment of Accounts with New South Wales, New South Wales, 336. 336.-Grant to Freemasons, 3"10.-Careless Committee of Elections and Qualifications, 27, 3-4. Use of Fire, 345. Committee of Privileges, 132. "Chaseley" and "Fortitude", Immigrants per, Committees, Select: Pleuro-pneumonia, 29, 308.­ 326. Lighthouses, 106, 348.-Resignation of Emi­ Civil Service Act Extension Bill, 103, 125, 298. gration Commissioner, 108, 196, 223.-Rivers Clerk of Petty Sessions, Gladstone, 62. and Harbors: 109, 186.-Brisbane Bridge, Coffee and Sugar, Cultivation of, 301, 338. 236.-Reformatory Boys, 239, 307. CoLONIAL SECRETARY, The Honorable RoBERT Committee to prepare Address, 2, 5. GEORGE WYNDHAM HERBERT (West More­ Company, Brisbane Gas, 56, 329, 339. ton): Address in Reply to Opening Speech, 8. Condition of Aborigines, 31. -Address of Congratulation-Adjournment Congratulation, address of, 18, 20. of the House, 18.-Dissolution of First Parlia­ Constitution of Legislative Council Bill, 300. ment, 29.-0ffice of Sheriff, 36,__:_Question of Contrib{ition, Military, 97, 149. Privilege, 45.-Motion for Returns, 48.­ Correspondence relative to Railway Guage, 114. Railway Guage, 50.-German Lutheran Mis­ Cotton Company, Cabulture 284. sion, 54.-Friday Sittings, 58.-Clerk of Council, Legislative, constitution of, 300. Petty Sessions, Gladstone, 62.- Railway Councils, Provincial, Bill, 118, 318, 337. Plans, 81.-Electoral Reform, 85.-Military CoXEN, 0:HARLllS, Esquire, Chairman of Commit­ Contribution, 98. - Government Savings tees, (Northern Downs) : Friday Sittings, 58.-· !Janks, 99.-CiTil Senice Act, 103. 127.--­ Electoral 'Reform, 87.--Pastoral Asscssmen~, ~l'e.lcgraph l.Jinosl 107,-~lrnrnigTa\]{m Co~n~ !);3,-.- Gorornmeni Stning::; BtHlk2, HJ3,--~-Now 4 INDEX.

Parliamentary Houses, 182.-Municipal In· District of Maranoa, electoral roll for, 268. stitutions, 192.-Maranoa Election, 229.­ Dist.rict of W arrego, alleged outrage in, 215. Roll for Maranoa, 269.-Cultivation of Sugar Doctor Lang, Rev., 215, 292. and Coffee, 301.-Reservation of Agricultural DouGLAS, JoHN, Esquire (Port Ourtis): Address Lands, 331.-Grant to Freemasons, 340. in reply to Opening Speech, 7, 13.-.Adjourn· Creek, Lockyer's, 242. ment of the House, 20.-Dissolution of First CRIBB, BEN.JAMIN, Esquire (West Moreton) : Parliament, 28.-0ffice of Sheriff, 39.­ Triennial Parliaments, 256. Question of Privilege, 45.-Railway Guage, CRIBB, RoBERT, Esquire (East Moreton): Ad­ 50.-Powers of the Legislature, 54.-Bris· journment of the House, 19.-0fll.ce of Sheriff', bane Gas Company, 57, 157.- Gradients 39.-Question of ,P,rivilege, 45.-Brisbane and Curves, 59.-Clerk of Petty Sessions, Gas Company, 56.-Gradients and Curves, Gladstone, 62.-Railway Plans, 72, 80.­ 60.-Railway Plans, 80.-Electoral Reform, Electoral Reform, 83.-Pastoral Assessment, 84.-Pastoral Assessment, 93.-Military Con· 93.-Military Contribution, 98.-Provincial tribution, 98.-Government Savings Banks, Government, 108. - Rivers and Harbors 103.-Leichha;dt Election, 113.-Grammar -Leichhardt Election, 110.-Grammar Schools Act, 116.-Provincial Councils, 123. Schools Act, 116.-Provimial Councils,' 120. -Licensed Auctioneers, 124.-Encourage· -Civil Service Act, 129.-Encouragement to ment of Agriculture, 133.-Marriage Bill, Agriculture, 134, 223.-Electoral Bill, 146.·­ 135, 195.-Intestate Estates, 139.-Electoral Financial Statement, 176.-Dismissal of Bill, 147.-Brisbane Gas Works, 157.-New Michael Bindon, 180.--New Parliament Parliament Houses-Appointment of Mem· Houses, 183.-Ipswich School of Arts, 188. bers to paid Offices, 184.-Grant to Presby· -Supply, 190.-Marriage Bill, 195.-Immi­ terian Church, 186.-Philosophical Society, gration Committee, 203, 211, 225.-0utrage 188.-Municipal Institutions, 192.-0utrage in Warrego District, 217.-Cultivation of in the Warrego District, 217.-Cultivationof Tobacco, 220.-Additional Members, 231.­ Tobacco, 219.--Immigration Committee, 226.·­ Brisbane Bridge, 237.-Railway Commis· Small Debts Recovery, 244.-Snmmary Eject­ sioners, 244.-Triennial Parliaments, 257.­ ment, 262.-Rev. Dr. Lang, 294.-Matrimo· Mr. Frederick Walker, 259.-Mr. J. L. Hay, nial Causes, 296.-Cultivation of Sugar and 262.-Gold Duty, 274.-Enclosure of Roads, Coffee, 301.-Furniture for old Government 279.-Supply, 280.-Board of General House, 305.-Rents of Crown Lands, 318.­ Education, 285.-Rev. Dr. Lang, 292.­ Provincial Councils, 319.-Extra Services of Fnrniture for old Government House, 305. Registrar-General, 323.-Warwick Railway, -Electoral Bill, 309.-Reform of Aborigines, 325.- Immigrants per "Fortitude" and 316.-Northern Railway, 317.-Provincial "Chaseley," 328.-Northern Traffic, 329. Councils, 318.-Warwick Railway, 322, 324. -Lying-in Hospital, 332.-.Alienatio:(l of -Northern Traffic, 329.-Reservation of Crown Lands, 334.-Gra.nt to Freemasons, Agricultural Lands, 330.-.A.lienation of 340.-Servants' Home, 352. Crown Lands, 332.-Grant to Freemasons, Crown Agency, 251. 341.-Servants' Home-Navigation of the Crown Lands, alienation of, 332. Fitzroy, 353. Crown Lands, rents of, 317. Draftsman, Parliamentary, 30. Cultivation of Sugar, 338. Drayton Agricultural Reserve, roads in the, 42. Cultivation of Sugar and Coffee, 301. Duty on Gold, Export, 273, 296, 336. Cultivation and Manufacture of Tobacco, 218. Duty on Gold, illegal collection of, 341. Curves and Gradients of Railway from Gatton Duty on Tobacco, decrease of, 195, 264, 267. Creek to summit of Main Range, 59. EDMONDSTONE, GEORGE, Esquire (East Moreton): Dalby, Railway from Little Liverpool to, 62, 106, Brisbane Gas Works, 158. 149. Education, Board of General, 285, 311. Days of Sitting, 132. EDWARDS, JoHN, Esquire, (Burnett) : Warwick Days of Sitting, suspension of sessional order, Railway, 324. 148. Ejectment, Summary, Bill, 262. Debate, Adjournment of, vide "Adjournment." Elections and Qualifications Committee, 27, 34. Debate, Resumption of, vide " Resumption of Election for Leichhardt, 40. debate." Election for Maranoa, 229. Debts, Small, Recovery Bill, 243, 272. Electoral Roll for Maranoa, 268. Deceased Wife's Sister Bill, 241. Electoral Reform, 81, 140. Decrease of Duty on Tobacco, 195, 264, 267. Electoral Bill, 140, 309, 318. Dismissal of Michael Bindon, 180. Electric Telegraph Lines, receipts and expendi· Dissolution of First Parliament of Queensland, 28. ture of, 107. Ii\DEX.

Emigration Commissioner, resignatiOn and return Causes, 241.-Marriage Bill, 242.-Publicans of, 108, 196. .Act, 267.-Intestate Real Estates, 270.­ Emigration Commissioner, additional salary of, Small Debts Recovery, 273.-Careless use of 325. Fire, 281.-Public Buildings, 282.-Gold Enclosure of Roads Bill, 279, 297. Duty, 296.-Municipalities .Act, 297.-Roads Encouragement of .Agriculture, 133, 160, 221. Enclosure, 298.-Reformatory Boys, 307.­ Engineers, Opinion of, relative to railway guage, Insolvency, 323.-Provincial Councils, 337. 49. -Rockhampton and Westwood Railway Estates, Intestate, 139, 269. -Subdivision of Land, 346. Evidence Bill, 336, 347. Government House, payment of Furniture for Expenditure and Receipts, of Telegraph Lines, old, 303. 107. Government Printing, 221. Explanation, personal, 229. Government Savings Bank Bill, 99. Export Duty on Gold, 273, 296, 336. Gradients and Curves of Railway, from Gatton Extra Services of Registrar-General, 323. Creek to summit of Main Range, 59. Grammar Schools .Act .Amendment Bill, 115, Financial Statement, 161. 149, 271. Fire, Careless use of, Prevention Bill, 281, 345. Grant of Land to Freemasons, 340. First Parliament of Queensland, dissolution of, Grant of Land to Presbyterian Church, 186. 28. Grant of Land for .Amelioration of .Aborigines, FrTz, TheHonorableHENRYBATES: .Absent Mem­ 315. bers, 17.-Commission of the Peace, 26.­ GROOM, WILLIAM HENRY, Esquire (Drayton anrJ. Condition of the .Aborigines, 32.-Southern Toowoomba) : Impounded stock, 27.-For­ and Western Railway, 155.-New Parliament feitures in Agricultural Reserves-Roads in Houses, 240.-Matrimonial Causes, 241.­ Drayton Reserve, 42.-German Lutheran Intestate Real Estates, 271.-Small Debts Mission, 53.-Friday sittings, 58.-Railway Recovery, 272.-Immigration Bill, 314.­ Plans, 80.-Government Savings Banks, 101. Provincial Councils, 337.-Cultivation of -Grammar Schools .Act, 117.-Provincial Sugar, 338.-Subdivision of Land, 347. Councils, 122.-Licensed Auctioneers, 125.­ Fitzroy, navigation of, 353. Enconragement of .Agriculture, 133, 160, Forfeitures in Agricultural Reserves, 42. 221.-Marriage Bill, 138.-Electoral Bill, "Fortitude" and "Chaseley," Immigrants per, 144.-Gas Works, 157.-0utrage in the 326. W arrego District, 218.-Government Print­ Fourth Responsible Minister, 50. ing, 221.-Immigration Committee, 225.­ Funds, Public, 30. Lockyer's Creek, 242.-Rev. Dr. Lang, 294. Furniture for old Government House, 160, 303. -Matrimonial Causes, 296. Frederick Walker, Mr., 259. Guage, Railway, opinions of Engineers relative Freemasons, grant of land to, 340. to, 49. ]'ridays, hours'of sitting on, 43, 57. Guage, Railway, correspondence relative to, 114.

Gas Company, Brisbane, 56. HARRIS, The Honorable GEORGE: Absent Mem­ Gas Company, Brisbane, Bill, 329, 339. bers, 17.-Commission of the Peace, 26.­ Gas Company, Brisbane, site of works of, 156. Southern and Western Railway, 155.­ Gatton Creek to summit of Main Range, gradients Matrimonial Causes, 241.-Intestate Real and curves of Railway from, 59. Estates, 271.-Board of General Education, Gayndah and Maryborough, railway between, 312.-Immigration Bill, 314.-Subdivision of 348. Land, 346.-Ba;n.k of New South Wales Bill, General Education, Board of, 285, 311. 348. German Lutheran Mission, 53. Harbors and Rivers, 109, 186, 349. Gladstone, Petty Sessions, clerk of, 62. Hay, Mr. J. L., 260. Gold Export Duty, 273, 296, 336. HoBBS, 1'he Honorable WrLLIAM: Commission of Gold Export Duty, illegal collection of, 341. the Peace, 25.--Public Funds--Parliamentary GoRE, The Honorable ST. GEORGE l~ICHARD: .Ad­ Draftsman, 30.-Fourth Responsible Minis­ dress in reply to Opening Speech, 4.-.Absent ter, 50.-Marriage Laws, 186.-Matrimonial Members, 14.-Commission of the Peace, Causes, 240.-Publicans Act, 266.-Intestate 24.-Public Funds, 30.-Condition of the Real Estates, 269.-Constitution of Legisla­ .Aborigines, 33.-Fourth Responsible Minis­ tive Council, 300. ter, 51.-Sitting Days, 132.-Southern and Home, Servants', 351. Western Railway, 155.-Marriage Laws, Hospital, Lying-in, 332. 186.-New Parliament Houses, 215, 240, Hours of Sitting on Fridays, 43, 57. 208.~-,Tury Bill, 229,259, 347.---.Matrimonial House, adjournment of, 18, 182. I:\TDEX.

Houses of Parliament, New, 96, 182, 213, 240, gration Committee, 204.-Brisbane Bridge, 253, 258. 236, 344 -Lockyer's Creek, 243.-Railway Commissioners, 246.-Mr. J. L. Hay, 260.­ illegal Collection of Gold Duty, 34.1. Public Buildings, 265.-Gold Duty, 278.­ Immigrants per "Fortitude" and "Chaseley," Enclosure of Roads, 279.-Supply, 281.­ 326. Cabulture Cotton Company, 284.-Board of Immigration Committee, 108, 196, 223. General Education, 287.- Cultivation of Immigration Bill, 251, 312. Sugar and Coffee, 302.-Furmture for old Impounded Stock, 27. Government House, 306.-Northern Railway, Insolvency Bill, 160, 322. 316.-Provincial Councils, 318.-Warwick Institutions, Municipal, ,190. Railway, 321, 324.-Reservation of Agricul­ Intestate Estates Bill, 139, 269. tural Lands, 331.-Alienation of Crown Ipswich, Boundary Line at, 48. Lands, 333.-Railway Bill, 339.-Bank of Ipswich School of Arts, 184, 187. New South Wales Bill, 345.-Maryborough ISAAC, The Honorable FREDERICK NEVILE: Re­ and Gayndah Railway, 349. --Serva11ts' Home, form of Aborigines, 330.-Cultivation of 353.-Navigation of the Fitzroy, 355. Sugar, 338. Lang, Rev. Dr., 215, 292. Issue of Blankets to Aboriginals, 27. Law of Evidence Amendment Bill, 336, 347. Legislative Assembly's Message, with amendment Jordan, Henry, Esquire, resignation and return in Jury Bill, 347. of, 108, 196. Legislative Business, 258. July, Adjournment to 19th, 182. Legislative Council, Constitution of, 300. · Jury Bill, 196, 228, 259, 291, 347. Legislature, Powers of, 54. Leichhardt Election, 110. RENNEDY, WILLIAM FRANCIS, Esquire Licensed Auctioneers Bill, 124, 182. (Maranoa) : Brisbane Gas Compauy, 57.­ Light Dues Bill, 258. Railway Plans, 74.-Electoral Reform, 83, Lighthouses, 106. 148.-Provincial Councils, 123.-Encourage­ Lighthouses, Additional, 348. ment to Agriculture, 134.-Immigration LILLEY, CHARLES, Esquire (Fortitude Valley) : Committee, 224. Address in Reply to Opening Speech, 9.-· Adjournment of the House, 20.-Elections LAIDLEY, The Honorable J AMES : Grammar and Qualifications Committee, 27.-Question Schools Act, 149. of Privilege, 44.-Electoral Reform, 90.­ Land Bill, Subdivision of, 181, 346. Grammar Schools Act, 117.-New Parliament Land, Grant of, to Freemasons, 340. Houses, 184.-Trustees of Public Lands, 194. Land, Grant of, for amelioration of Aborigines, -Encouragement of Agriculture, 223.­ 315. Railway Commissioners, 248. - Triennial Laud purchased under Pre-emptive Right, 34. Parliaments, 257.-Mr. Fred. Walker--Mr. Lands, Crown, rents of, 317. J. L. Hay, 260.-Summary Ejectment, 262. Lands, Crown, alienation of, 332. -Gold Duty, 276, 341.-Rev. Dr. Lang, 294. Lands, Agricultural, reservation of, 330. -Matrimonial Causes, 295.-Grant to Free­ Lands, Pastoral, Assessment Bill, 92, 315. masons, 340. I~ands, Trustees of Public, 21, 194. Liquors, Wholesale Selling, Bill, 48, 196. LANDS AND WoRKS, SECRETARY FOR, The Little Liverpool to Dalby, Railway Plans and Honorable ARTHUR MACALISTER (Ip.,wick) : Sections, 62, 106, 149. Address in Reply to Opening Speech, 10.­ Loan Bill, 347. Pre-emptive Rights, 34.-Forfeitures in Lockyer's Creek, 242. Agricultural Reserves, 42. -Roads in Lutheran German Mission, 53. Drayton Reserve, 43.-Question of Lying-in Hospital, 332. Privilege, 46.-Boundary Line at Ipswich, 48.-Railway Guage, 49, 115.-Retnrn MACALISTER, The Honorable ARTHUR (Ipswich), of Public Works, 54-Brisbane Gas Com­ vide "Secretary for Lands and Works." pany, 56, 158.-Gradients and Curves, MACKENZIE, ROBERT RAMSJI.Y, Esquire (Burnett) : 59.-Railway Plans, 62, 77.-Electoral Address in Reply to Opening Speech, 9.­ Reform, 86, 145.-Pastoral Assessment, 92. Adjournmcnt of the House, 18.-0ffice of -Rivers and Harbors, 109.-Leichhardt Sheriff, 35.-Banking Business of Queensland, Election, 113.-Provincial Councils, 118.­ 40.-Question of Privilege, 47.-Railway Civil Service Act, 127.-New Parliament Guage, 49, 114.-Return.of Pnblic Works, Houses, 183, 253.-Grant to Presbyterian 54.-Brisbane Gas Company, 56.-Friday Church, 186.--Philosophieal Society, 189. Sittings, G8.-GradiPnts and Cmves of Rail­ -Mnni<'ip>tl Inst.itutions, 192.--Tmmi­ way, fiO. He~ihn13 .Pl

Reform, 85.-Pastoral Assessment, 93.­ New South Wales, settlement of Accounts with, Military Contribution, 98. - Government 336. Savings Banks, 102.-Civil Service Act, 104. New South Wales, Bank of, 345, 348. -Immigration Committee, 108, 196, 209, 227. New Parliament Houses, 96, 182, 213, 240, 253, -Premiums for Agricultural Products, 133. 258. -Furniture for old Government House, 159, Northern Railway, 316. 303, 307.-Financial Statement, 172.-New Northern Traffic, 329. Parliament Houses, 183. - Harbors and Rivers, 187.-Philosophical Society, 188.­ O'CONNELL, The Honorable MAURICE CHARLES, Supply, 190.-0utrage in the W arrego Dis­ vide "President." trict, 216.-Trienni~ ,Parliaments, 256.­ Office of Sheriff, 35. Legislative Business, 258.-Rev. Dr. Lang, Offices, Paid, appointment of members to, 184. 293.-Electoral Bill, 309.-Reform of Abori­ Officers, sureties of Public, 42. gines, 316.-Rents of Crown Lands, 318.­ Old Government House, payment of furniture Warwick Railway, 321.-Maryborough and for, 303. Gayndah Railway, 348.-Servants' Home, Opening of Parliament, 1. 353. Opening Speech, 2. MoLEAN, JoHN DoNALD, Esquire (Eastern Opinion of Engineers relative to Railway Guage, Downs): Electoral Reform, 92.-Pastoral As­ 49. sessment, 93.-Military Contribution, 98.­ Outrage in the W arrego District, alleged, 215. Leichhardt Election, 112.-Provincial Coun­ cils, 123, 319.-Encouragement of Agricul­ Paid Offices, appointment of members to, 184. ture, 133,221. -Marriage Bill,139.-Brisbane Parliament, meeting of, 1. Gas Works, 158, 329.-Financial Statement, Parliament, dissolution of first, 28. 178.-Immigration Committee, 212, 223.­ Parliament, Prorogation of, 356. Cultivation of Tobacco, 220.--Gold Duty, Parliaments, Triennial, 254. 275.-Cultivation of Sugar and Coffee, 302.­ Parliament Houses, New, 96, 182, 213, 240, 253, Warwick Railway, 320, 324.-Alienation of 258. Crown Lands, 335.-Grant to Freemasons, Parliamentarv Draftsman, 30. 340.-Careless Use of Fire, 345. Payment to New South Wales, for fnrnitme for Main Range, railway from Gatton Creek to, 59. old Government House, 159, 303. Manufacture of Tobacco, 218. Pastoral Lands Assessment, 92, 315. Maranoa District, electoral roll for, 268. Peace, Commission of, 21. Maronoa Election, 229. Personal explanation, 229. Marriage Bill, 135, 195, 290. Petition in reference to Parliamentary Buildings Marriage Laws Bill, 185, 196. Commission, 96. Marriage with Deceased Wife's Sister, 241. Petty Sessions, Gladstone, clerk of, 62. Maryborough and Gayndah, railway between, Philosophical Society, 159, 188. 348. Plans, Sections, and Book of Reference, Railway, Matrimonial Causes Bill, 240, 295. 62, 106, 149, 316, 345. Meeting of Parliament, 1. Pleuro-pneumonia in Cattle, 29, 308. Members, Absent, 13. Postage Act Amendment Bill, 2. Members, Additional, Bill, 229, 301. Powers of the Legislature, 54. Members, appointment of, to paid offices, 184. Premiums for Agricultural Products, 133, 160, Mercantile Law Amendment Bill, 47. 221. Michael Bindon, dismissal of, 180. Pre-emptive Right, land purchased under, 34. Military Contribution Bill, 97, 149. Presentation of Address in reply to Opening Minister, Fourth Responsible, removal of, 50. Speech, 18. Mr. J. L. Hay, 260. PRESIDENT, The Honorable MAURICE CHARLES Mr. Fred. Walker, 259. O'CONNELL: Absent Members, 13.-Com. Mission, German Lutheran, 53. mission of the Peace, 25.-Blankets to MOFFATT, The Honorable THOMAS DE LACY, Aboriginals, 27.-Condition of Aborigines, vide "Colonial Treasurer." 33.-Lighthouses, 106.-Sitting Days, 132.­ Moneys paid to New South Wales, 159, 303. Privileges Committee, 133.-Southern and Motion for Returns, 27, 34, 48, 107, 218, 221. Western Railway, 155.-New Parliament­ Municipalities Act Amendment Bill, 296. Houses, 213, 240, 258.-Grammar Schools Municipal Institutions Bill, 190. Act, 271.-Public Buildings Bill, 282.-Civil Service, 298.-Reformatory Boys, 307.­ Navigation of the Fitzroy, 353. Immigration, 314.-Provincial Councils, 337. New South Wales, moneys paid to, for furniture -Additional Lighthouses, 348. of old Government House, 159, 303. Presbyterian Church, grant to, 186. 8 INDEX.

Prevention of Ca.reless use of Fire, 281, 345. Ruilway, Southern and V\re8tern, 149. Previous Question, the, 86, 324. Railway from Toowoombrt to W m·wick, 320, 323. Prince, birth of a Royal, 18. Railway, Northern, 316. PRING, The Honorable RATCLIFFE, vide " Attor­ Railway Commissioners Bill, 244. ney-General." Railway Bill, 339. Printing, Government, 221. Railway Plans, Sections, and Book of Reference, Privileges Committee, 132. 62, 106, 149, 316, 345. Privilege, Question of, 44. Railway Gradients and Curves, 59. Products, Agricultural, premiums for the en­ Railway Guage, opinion of engineers relative to, couragement of, 138, 221. 49. Proposed New Houses of,P,arliament, vide" Par­ Railway, correspondence relating to, 114. liament Houses." . Real Estates Intestate Bill, 269. Proposed remission of Duty on Unmanufactured Receipts and Expenditure of Electric Telegraph Tobacco, 195, 264. Lines, 107. Proposed Line of Railway from Toowoomba to Reform, Electoral, 81. Warwick, vide "Railway." Reform of Aborigines, 315, 330. Prorogation of Parliament, 356. Reformatory Boys, 239, 307. Provincial Councils Bill, 118, 318, 337. Regatta, anniversary, 325. Provincial Government, 108. Registra1·-General, extra Services of, 323. Publicans Act Amendment Bill, 267. Rents of 0rown Lands, 317. Public Buildings, 265, 282. Remission of Duty on Tobacco, 195, 264, 267. Public Funds, 30. Report of Immigration Committee, 223. Public Lands, trustees of, 21, 194. Report of Reformatory Boys Committee, 307. Public Officers, sureties of, 42. Report of Pleuro-pneumonia Committee, 308. Public Works, motion for return of, 54. Report of Lighthouses Committee, 348. PUGH, THEOPHILUS PARSONS, Esquire (North Reservation of Agricultural Lands, 330. Brisbane): Address in reply to Opening Reserves, forfeitures in agricultural, 42. Speech, 12.-Question of Privilege, 45.-Re­ Reserves, Roads in the Drayton, 42. turn of Public Works, 54.-Friday Sittings, Resignation and Return of Emigration Commis­ .58.-Railwtty Plans, 74.-Electoral Reform, sioner, 108, 196, 223. 88.--Government Savings Banks, 102.--Leich­ Resumption of Debate on Civil Service Amend­ hardt Election, 113.-Grammar Schools Act, ment Bill, 125. 116.-Civil Service Act, 131.-J~ncourage­ Resumption of Debate on Immigration Committee's ment of Agriculture, 134.-Marriage Bill, Report, 223. 139.-Electoral Bill, 148.-Gas Works; 158. Resumption of Debate on Parliamentary Build­ -Financial Statement, 177.-New Parlia­ ings Commission, 240. ment Houses, 182, 253.-Philosophical Resumption of Debate on Wa,rwick Ra,ilway, 32p. Society, 189.-Municipalinstitutions, 192.­ Responsible Minister, Fourth, 50. Trustees of Public Lands, 194.-Immigra­ Returns moved for; 27, 34, 48, 107, 218, 221. tion Committee, 196, 207, 223.-Cultivation Return of Emigration Commissioner, 108, 196, of Tobacco, 219.-Brisbane Bridge, 237.­ 223. Public Buildings, 266.-Tobacco Duty, 268. Rev. Dr. Lang, 215; 292. -Roll for Marauoa, 269.-Jury Bill, 292,--' Rivers and Ha,rbors, 109, 186, 349. Cultivation of Sugar and Coffee, 302.-Pro­ Roads, enclosure of, 279, 297. vincial Councils, 320.-Immigrants per Roads in the Dmyton Agricultural Reserve, 42. "Fortitude" and " Chaseley," 326.-Grant RoBERTS, The Honorable DANIEL FoLEY : Absent to Freemasons, 341.-Gold Duty, 344.­ Members, 16.-Trustees of Public Lands, 21. Servants' Home, 351. -Commission of the Peace, 24.-Fourth Responsible Minister, 52.-Trade and Com­ Queensland Acclimatisation Society, 251. merce, 132.-Intestate Real Estates, 270.­ Queensland, Banking business of, 40. Small Debts Recovery, 272.-Public Build­ Queensland, dissolution of first Parliament of, ings, 283.-Roads Enclosure, 297. 28. Rockhampton and W estwood, milway between, Question of Privilege, 44. 345. Question, the Previous, 86, 324. Roll, Electora,l, for Mara,noa District, 268. Quorum, no, 17, 34, 185, 311, 322. ROYDS, EDMUND MOLYNEUX, Esquire (Leick­ kardt) : Leichhardt Election, 110.-Aliena­ Railway Act Amendment Bill, 348. tion of Crown Lands, 335. Railway between Rockhampton and W estwood, 345. Sala,ry, additional, to Emigration Commissioner, Railway between Maryborough and Gayndah, 348. 325. INDEX. 9

Sale of Liquors by Wholesale, 48, 196. Stoek, Impounded, 27. SANDEMAN, GoRDON, Esquire (Leiclthardt) : Rail­ Subdivision of Land Bill, 181, 346. way Plans, 79.-Electoral Reform, 92.­ Sugar and Coffee, cultivation of, 301, 338. Pastoral Assessment, 93. - Government Summary Ejectment Bill, 262. Savings Banks, 103.-Philosophical Society, Summons, Writs of, 347. 189.-Encouragement of Agriculture, 222.­ Supreme Court. Amendment Bill, 329. Immigration Committee, 225.-Gold Duty, Supply, 189, 279. 274.-Rents of Crown Lands, 318.-Pro­ Sureties of Pnblic Officers, 42. vincial Councils, 319.-Railway to Warwick, Suspension of Sessional Order, 148. 322. Savings Banks, Government, 199; 196. TAYLOR, JAMES, Esquire (Western Downs): Schools, vide " Grammar Schools." Question of Privilege, 44.-Friday Sittings, School of Arts, Ipswich, 184, 187. 58.-Railway Plans, 75.-Electoral Reform, SECRET.A.RY FOR LANDS AND WORKS, vide "Lands 90.-Pastoral Assessment, 96.-Receipts and and Works'' Expenditure of Telegraph Lines, 107.­ Select Committee, vide " Committees." Leichhardt Election, 114.-Grammar Schools Servants' Home, 351. Act, 117.-Encouragement of Agriculture, Services, extra, of Registrar-General, 323. 134.-Brisbane Gas Works, 158.-Brisbane Service, Civil, Extension Act, 103, 125, 298. Bridge, 238.-Lockyer's Creek, 243 ..-Small Sessional Order, suspension of, 148. Debts Recovery, 244.-Railway Corn· Settlement of Accounts with New South Wales, missioners, 250.-Summary Ejectment, 263. appointment of Commissioner for, 336. -Tobacco Duty, 265.-Roll for Maranoa, Sheriff, Office of, 35. 269.-Gold Duty, 278.-Enclosure of Roads, Sitting Days, 132, 148. 279.-Rev. Dr. Lang, 293.-Cultivation of Sitting on Fridays, hours of, 43, 57. Sugar and Coffee, 302.-Furniture for old Site of Brisbane Gas Company's Works, 156. Government House, 306.-Warwick Railway, Society, Acclimatisation, 251 322.-Extra Services of Registrar-General, Society, Philosophical, 159, 188. 323.-Immigrants per "Fortitude" and Southern and Western Railway, 149. "Chaseley," 328.-Alienation of Crown Small Debts Recovery Bill, 243, 272. Lands, 335.-Grant to Freemasons, 340.­ SMITH, The Honorable RICHARD J OSEPR : Address Servants' Home, 352. in reply to Opening Speech, 4.-Absent Telegraph Lines, receipts and expenditure of, 107. Members, 14.-Commission of the Peace, 26. Tobacco, decrease of duty on, 195, 264,,267. -CarelessUse of Fire, 282.-Public Buildings Tobacco, cultivation and manufacture of, 218. Bill, 283.-Insolvency, 323. -Reform of Toowoomba German Lutheran Mission, 53. Aborigines, 330. Toowoomba to Warwick, proposed line of rail· SPEAKER, the Honorable GILBERT ELIOTT, (Wide way, 320, 323. Bay): Presentation of Address in Reply Trade Marks Bill, 96, 182. to Opening Speech, 18.-Bills Discharged Trade and Commerce Bill, 132. from the Paper, 30.-Elections and Traffic, Northern, 329. Qualifications Committee, 27, 34.-Friday TREASURER, COLONIAL, The Honorable T:!IOMAS DE Sittings, 43.-Question of Privilege 44, 46. LACY MOFFATT (Western Downs): Adjourn· -Railway Plans, 75.-Electoral Reform, 86. ment of the House, 19.-Pleuro-pneumonia, -New Parliament Houses, 97.-Provincial 29.-Banking business of Queensland, 41.­ Government, 108.-Leichhardt Election, 113. Electoral Reform, 87.-Military Contribu· -Civil Service Act, 130.-Supply, 190.­ tion, 97.-Government Savings Banks, 101.­ Tobacco Duty, 195', 268.-Immigration Com­ Licensed Auctioneers, 124.-Civil Service mittee, 196, 223.-Brisbane Bridge, 239.­ Act, 130.-Encouragement of Agriculture, Reservation of Agricultural Lands, 331.­ 135.-'-Philosophical Society, 159.-Financial Gold Duty, 337.-Grant to Freemasons, 341. Statement, 161, 179.-Harbors and Rivers­ -Navigation of the Fitzroy, 355.-Proro­ Ipswich School of Arts, 187.-Supply, 189. gation of Parliament, 356. -Immigration Committee, 210.-Cultivation Speech, Vice-Regal, 1, 357. of Tobacco, 219.-Railway Commissioners, Speech, Vice-Regal, address in reply to, 2, 5, 18, 356. 249.-Light Dues, 258.-Tobacco Duty, Statement, Financial, the, 161. 264, 267.-Gold Duty, 273, 337, 343.­ STEPHENS, THOMAS BLACKET,Esquire ( 8outk Bris­ Pleuro-pneumonia, 308.-Rents of Crown bane): Brisbane Gas Works, 157.-Philoso­ Lands, 318. -Immigrants per " Fortitude " phical Society, 189.-Municipal Institutions, and "Chaseley," 327.-Northern Traffic, 190.-Trustees of Public Lands, 194.­ 329.-Alienation of Crown Lands, 335.­ Acclimatisation Society, 251.-Public Build­ Appropriation Bill, 336.-Servants' Home ings Bill, 265.-Gold Duty, 274. 352. 10 INDEX.

Triennial Parliaments Bill, 254. Agriculture, 135.-Marriage Biil, 1~9.­ Trustees of Public Lands Bill, 21, 194. Immigration Committee, 224.-Railway Commissioners, 248.-Triennial Parliaments, Unmanufactured Tobacco, vide" Tobacco." 255.-Cultivation of Sugar and Coffee, 302. -Furniture for old Government House, 306. Vice-Regal Speech, 1, 357. -Warwick Railway, 325.-Reservation of Vice-Regal SpBech, presentation of address in Agricultural Lands, 331.-Alienation of reply to, 18. Crown Lands, 336. Volunteers, the, 218. Wife, marriage with sister of deceased, 135, 241. WooD, The Honorable WESTERN: Address in Walker, Mr. Frederic¥:, .259. Reply to Opening Speech, 4.-Absent Mem­ W arrego District, alleged outrage in the, 215. bers, 14.-Trustees of Public Lands, 21.­ Warwick, proposed line of railway from Too­ Commission of the Peace, 25.-Condition of woomba to, 320, 323. the Aborigines, 31. - Fourth Responsible WATTS, The Honorable JOHN : Absent Members, Minister, 52.-Sitting Days, 132.-Grammar 15 ...... :_Address of Congratulation, 20.­ Schools Act, 149, 271. -Southern and Grammar Schools Act, 149, 271.-Southern Western Railway, 152.-Marriage Iiaws Bill, and Western Railway, 153.-Reformatory 185.-New Parliament Houses, 240.-Matri. Boys, 239, 307.-New Parliament Ho~ses, monial Causes-Marriage Bill, 241.-Publi­ 240. - Matrimonial Causes - Marrrage cans Act, 267.-Intestate Real Estates, 270.~ Bill, 241.-Publicans Act, 267.-Intestate Small Debts Recovery, 272.-Careless Use of Real Estates, 271.-Small Debts Recovery, Fire, 282.-Public Buildings, 283.-Gold 273.-Careless use of fire, 281.-Public Duty, 296.-Roads Enclosure-Civil Service Buildings, 283.-Roads Enclosure, 297.·­ Act, 298.-Constitution of Legislative Coun­ Board of Education, 311.-Provincial Coun­ cil, 300.-Reformatory Boys, 307.-Board of cils, 337.-Cultivation of Sugar, 338.­ General Education, 311.-Immigration Bill, Brisbane Gas Company, 339.-Subdivision of 314.-Insolvency, 323.-Provincial Councils, Land Bill, 346. 337.-Rockhampton and Westwood Railway, W estwood and Rockhampton, railway between, 346.-Subdivision of Land Bill, 34S.-Jury 345. Bill, 348. Wholesale Selling Liquors Bill, 48, 196. WIENHOLT, ARNOLD, Esquire (Warwick): Ques­ Works, Public, motion for return of, 54. tion of Privilege, 44.-Railway Plans, 75.­ Works, Brisbane Gas Company's, 156. Electoral Reform,,. 85.-Encouragement of Writs of Summons Bill, 347.

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I.-SUBJECTS OF DEBATE IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

1865. PAGE. May 2. Meeting of Parliament.-Re-appointment of Pr0Sidcnt and Members.-Vice- Regal Speech.-Addre;;s in reply to Opening Speech .. . 1 3. Presentation of Address in reply to Opening Speoch.-Days for despatch of general business 10 10. The Clerk of the Council.-Constitution of the CounciL-Absent Member 13 25. Council Constitution Bill, 2° 86 31. 'fhe Clerk of the Council .. . 136 June 1. The ship "Fiery Stm·" 144 14. 'Warwick Railway.-Opening of Roads Bill, 2° ... HS 28. Opening of Roads Bill 272 29. Careless Use of Fire Prevention Bill, 2° . . . 294 July 6. Industrial and Reformatory Schools BilL-Jury Bill 359 12. Adjournment 387 13. New Houses of Parliament (Laying Foundation Stone).-Death of the Honorable F. N. Isaac 392 Aug. 2. Days of Sitting.-Consolidation of the Criminal Law-Offences against the Person Bill, Injuries to Property Bill, Forgery Bill, Coinage Offences Bill, Larceny Bill, Accessories Bill, 2°.-Registration of Electors Bill, 2°.­ District Courts Act Amendment Bill, 2° 394 3. Real Property Act Amendment BilL-Agricultural Reserves Amendment Bill, 2° 405 4. The Working of the Real Property Act .. . 414 17. Constitutional Position of Her Majesty's Representative in the Colony.­ Criminal Practice Bill, 2°.-Criminal Statutes Repeal Bill, 2°.-0ffences against the Person Bill (recommitted).-;-District Courts Bill (committed) ... 486 18. Constitutional Position of Her Majesty's ltepresentative in the Colony.­ Government Savings Banks Bill, 2" 495 23. Cemeteries Bill, 2°.-Impounding Act of 1863 Amendment Bill, 2° ... 521 29. Steam Postal Communication.-Seledors in Agricultur]),l Reserves Bill (Ques­ tion of Proceclure).-Crown Land8 Laws Amcm1ment Bill ... 54'J, 31. Appointment of Attorney-Geneeal.-Rcal Pl'Operty A.et Amendment Bill, 2°. -Uru"·n T~anll~ l;a'.V~ Amemlnwnt Hill (1'<' •UIHJllion of debate). -·G orernnwnt Annnitir~ Bill, 2°... 5';'6 iv. TABLE OF CONTENTS.

1865. PAGE. Sept. 1. Hospitals Bill, 2° 579 5. Parliament Buildings.-Crown Lands BilL-Claims against Government Bill, 2°.-Real Property Act of 1861.-Real Property Act Amendment Bill.­ Resignation of the President 579 6. Resignation of the President 617 7. Selectors Relief Bill 636 8. Ministerial Explanation.-The Parliament Buildings.-Selectors Relief Bill (passed).-Municipal Institutions Bill (passed).-Distillation Bill, 2° 649 11. Fourth Responsible 2\rinister.-Distillation Bill (committed) ... 683 12. Meeting of Parliament.-Appropriation Bill, 2°.-The President 690 14. Prorogation of Parliament.-Address to His Excellency.-Assent to Bills.­ The Vice-Regal Speech 693

H.-SUBJECTS OF DEBATE IN 'l'HE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY. 1865. JJiay 2. Meeting of Parliament.-Attendance of Members in the Council to hear the Govel'llor's Speech.-Adjournment to three o'clock.-Address in reply 6 3. Presentation of Address in reply to Opening Speech.-Meetings of the House 10 9. Committals by the Brisbane and Ipswic-h Benches 12 10. Queensland Volunteers 14 11. Insolvent .i\Iagistrates.-Steam Communil'ation.-Petition from the vVarrego. -Pastoral Assessments.-Bmwh of Magistrates, Toowoomba.-Powm· to withdraw a Motion 16 16. The Clerk of the Legislative CounciL-Church of England Bill, 1°.­ Cemeteries Bill, 2°.-Real Estate of Intestates Distribution Bill, 2°.­ 0pening of Roads Bill, 2°.-Agricultural Reserves Bill, 2° 24 17. Bathurst Bmr.-Post Office and lHoney Order Department 44 18. Registration of Elector• Bill, 1 o . . . 56 23. Careless Use of Fire Bill, 2°.-Church of England BilL-Trade Marks Act Amendment Bill, 2°.-Privilege of Speech on Motion for Adjournment of the House 62 25. QtH'~tion to Pri>ate Member.-Railway from Toowoomba to Warwick.­ Church of England Bill ...... ' ...... 92 30. Irregular Motion.-Sub:-icly to the Queensland Steam Navigation Company.­ Church of England Bill . . . 116 31. Report of the Committee of Elections and Qualifications on the Election for the District of Mitchell . . . 136 .June 1. Question of Order.-Industrial Schools Bill 145" 13. Adjournment of the House HS 14. Encouragement of Sericulture.-Railway to Condamine.-Railway between Ipswich and Brisbane 151 15. District Courts Bill, 2°.-Acljonrnment of the House 178 20. Remittance of Money to the Imperial Emigration Commissioners 183 21. Immigration Debate.-Mr. Backhouse's Petition.-Holiclays in Govemment Offices.-l\Iaryborough and Gayndah 'l'elegraph.-Question of Order 226 22. Murder at Toowoomba.-Ways and J'.Ieans.-Question of Order 231 23. Legislati>e Council Bill.-Industrial and Reformatory Schools Bill, 3° 251 27. Toowoomba Swamps Drainage.-Expenditm·e out of Immigration Loans.-Real Property Act Amendment Bill, 2o 257 28. Claims of the Central and Northern Districts 273 29. Murder at Toowoomba (Conduct of Coroncr).-vVays and Means (Resump­ tion of Committee) 295 30. Consolidation of Criminal Law-Offences against the Person Bill, Injlll"ies to Property Bill, Forgery Bill, Coinage Offences Bill, Acceosories Bill, Larceny Bill, 2°.-Legislative Council Bill 319 Julzt 4. Appointment of Members to Paid Otlices.-The Leichhardt Search Fund.­ The MarybOl"ough and Gayndah Road.-Maryborough Water Supply.- Ciaims against Government Bill... 328 TABLE 0 F COXTENTS. V.

18n5. PAGE. July 5. Claims against Government Bill, ::1°.-The Case ofW. H. Richards and Ca.­ Savings Banks Act Amendment Bill 344 6. Agricultural Reserves Amendment Bill, 3°.-Crown Lands Non-Competitive Sales Bill (discharged from the Paper).-Oustoms Duties Bill, 2° ... 365 7. Health Bill, 2°.-Adjournment of the House.-The Rev. P. Dunne and Immigration.-Claims against Government Bill 378 12. Telegraphic Extension.-New Houses of Parliament, and O]Jening of Railway. -Criminal Practice Bill, 2° 388 13. The Late President of the United States (Proposed Address of Condolence to Mrs. Lincoln).-Adjournment of the House ... 393 Aug. 2. Insolvency Act of 1864.-Triennial Parliaments Bill.-Mrs. Abraham Lincoln (Address of Condolence).-Government Savings Bank Bill, 2° 402 4. Question of Order . . . 415 8. The Governor's Speech at the Grammar School. Ipswich.-Road from Yuella Creek to Roma.-Memorial of Northern Squatters.-Impounding Act of 1863 Amendment Bill, 2°.-Summary Ejectment Bill, 2°.-Immigration Expenditure.-Supply 415 9. Road Votes (Motion for Adjournment).-Constitutional Position of Her Majesty's Representative . . . 432 10. Proceedings in Committee Rooms (Question of Privilege).-Government Annuities Bill 463 15. Alleged Disfranchisement of Electors for Eastern Downs 468 16. Improper Treatment of Immigrants.-Mechanics' Institute (Spring Hill).­ Post Office and Money Order Department 471 17. Immigration 4!H 18. Immigration . . . 502 22. Question of Privilege.-Inspection of Primary Schools.-Civil Service Act Repeal Bill... 502 23. Steam Postal Communication between Brisbane and Bowen.-Encouragement to Cotton Growers.-Sugar and Cotton Regulations.-Proposed Increase to certain Salaries.-'l'he "Commodore Perry."-Queen's Plate, Gayndah.­ Salary of Chief Justice.-Hospitals Bill, 2° ... 523 25. Rebtrictions on Sheep 540 29. Salaries of the President of the Legislative Council and the Speaker of the Legis­ lative Assembly.-Immigrants per "Peter Goddefroy."-Oddfellows' Society 552 30. Message from the Governor.-Resignation of the Attorney-GeneraL-Bridge over Drayton Creek.-Government Contracts.-Distillation Bill, 2° 558 31. Oflice of Attorney-General... 578 Sept. 1. Approaching Close of the Se~sion... 579 5. Claims of the late Government Resident at Port Ourtis.-Vote in Support of Yolunteers.-Claim of the Honorable Louis Hope.-Chief Officer of the "Commodore Pcrry."-Grant of Land to Squatters.-Supply of "\Vater to Maryborough.-Salaries of the Chairman of Committees of the Ijegislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly.-Jetty at Sandgate.-Municipal Institutions Act of 1864 Amendment Bill, 2°.-Real Estate of Intestates Distribution BilL-Triennial Parliaments Bill... 592 6. Personal Explanation (~fr. Pring).-Rev. L. H. Rumsey.-Public Officers engaged in Commercial Transactions.-Servires of Dr. Lung in the Cause of Separation.-Agricultural Reserves BilL-Triennial Parliaments Bill 621 7. Alteration of the Hours of Sitting.-P1·oposed Increase to Auditor-General's Salary.-Eastern Downs .Electoral Roll (Report from Committee).-Tele­ graph Extension to the Gulf of Carpent.aria.-Adjustment of Accounts with New South vVales.-Proposed Remittance to Imperial Emigration Commis­ eioners.-Jury Bill (discharged).-Health Bill (discharg<'d) 637 8. Appointment of Attorney-GeneraL-Appropriation Bill, 2o.-Existing and Proposed Lines of Steam Communication.-Appropriation Bill (committed). -Office of Master of 'l'itles 656 9. English Mails for theNorth.-Selectors Relief Bill, 2°.-W. H. Richards and Co. fi80 11. Transmission of Messages from the JJegislative Counc.il.-Real Property Act Amendment Bill . . . 688 vi. TABLE OF CONTENTS.

IlL-LIST OF DIVISIONS. Legislative Council. PAGE. Offences against the Person Bill-Honorable St. George R. Gore's amendment on motion for 1'hird Reading of 489 Parliamentary Buildings-on motion of the Honorable the President, in reference to 584 Legislative Assembly. Church of England Bill-on motion of Mr. Mackenzie for leave to introduce Bill 32 Adjournment of the House-motion for, by Mr. Douglas, on Third Reading of Agricultural Reserves Act Amendment Bill... 86 Toowoomba and Warwick Railway-on motion of Secretary for Lands and W orlts, that plans, sections, and books of reference be approved of, and amendment by Mr. Fitzsimmons 115 Church of England Bill-on motion of Mr. W alsh to consider petition in relation to 116 Queensland Steam Navigation Company-on motion of Mr. Watts that a subsidy be granted to . . . 135 Elections and Qualifications Committee-amendment by Mr. W alsh to adjourn the House, on the Colonial Secretary's motion that the report be referred back to the Committee... 144 Adjom·nment of the House-on Mr. 'l'aylor's motion, on account of death of a near relative of Secretary for Lands and Works 148 Encouragement of Sericulture-on Mr. Coxen's motion in reference to 153 Railway to Condamine-on Mr. Miles' motion for a Survey 162 Brisbane and Ipswich Railway-on Mr. Blal;eney's motion for a Select Committee 178 Adjournment of the House-on the Colonial Secretary's mot.ion to adjourn to the 20th June ... 183 Remittance of Money to Emigration Commissioners-on Mr. Mackenzie's motion in reference to... 226 Ways and Means-motion of Colonial Treasurer for increase of certain Customs Duties-on Mr. Douglas' amendment to report progress 250 Claims of the Northern Districts-on Mr. Vi-ralsh's motion, and amendment by Mr. Samleman that the previous question be now put 294 vVays and Means-on ~Ir. Douglas' amendment to reduce the proposed duty on beer . . . 319 Council Constitution Bill-on motion of the Colonial Secretary for Second Reading . . . 328 Leichhardt Search Fund·-on motion by Mr. Sandeman for grant in aid of ... 333 Agricultural l{eserves-Mr. Douglas' amendment, on 1notion by Secretary for Lands and \Vorks for T·hircl Reading of Bill . . . 378 Adjournment of the House-on Mr. Taylor's motion to adjourn to the 1st August ... 386 Supply-on Mr. Walsh's motion to adjourn the debate ... 432 Mechanics' Institute, Spring Hill-motion by Mr. Pugh for grant in aid of 475 Encouragement to Cotton Growers-on motion of Attorney-General to consider Petitions 526 Salary of Chief Justice-on motion of Attorney-General to introduce a Bill to increase . . . 538 Oddfellows' Society-on M1•. fugh's motion for grant in aid of... 558 Bridge over Drayton Creek-on Mr. Groom's motion for grant of money for... 562 Claims of the late Government Re,iclent at Port Curtis-on Mr. Douglas' motion for a Select Committee to inquire into 593 Claim of the Honomble Louis Hope-on motion by Mr. Mackenzie for grrmt of land . . . 599 Triennial Parliaments Bill-Mr. Blakeney's mot.ion for Second Reading, und amendment hJ tlcct·etal'Y ful' Lnmb and vYorks, t.hRt !.he Bill be real! a 61'1 'I.'ABLE OF CON'I.'ENTS. vii.

PAGE. Services of Dr. Lang in the cause of Separation-on Mr. Douglas' motion for grant of money... 631 Triennial Parliaments-division interrupted for 1mnt of a Qno1•um, on. 5th ~~~ ~ Appropriation Bill-on Colonial Treasurer's motion to go into Committee of Supply ...... 669, 676

IV.-LIST OF MEMBERS AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE SESSION. THE MINISTRY. Colonial Secretary-The Honorable RoBERT GEORGE \VYNDHAM HERBERT. (West 1lfo1•don.) Colonial Treasurer-The Honorable . (West Moreton.) Attorney-General-The Honorable RATCLIFFE PRING. (Ipswich.) Minister for Lands and Works-The Honorable ARTHUR MA.CALISTER. (Ipswich.)

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. The President-The Honorable MAURICE CHARLES O'CoNNELL. List of Members. The Honorable FRANCIS EnWARD BIGGE. The Honorable JoHN BRAMSTON. The Honorable Eyr,ES IRWIN CATTLFEILD BROWNE. The Honorable HENRY BATES FI'l'Z. The Honorable ST. GEORGE RICHARD GoRE. The Honorable GEORGE HARRIS. The Honorable vVILLIAM Honns. The Honorable LoFis HoPE. The Honorable FREDERICK :NEVILLE !SAAC. The Honorab!e WILLIAM LANDSBOROUGH. The Honorable JoHN McCoNNEL. The Honorable JoHN FREDEiiiCK McDouGALL. The Honorable FRANCIS NORTII. The Honorable DA:>riEL FOLEY RonERrS. The. lionorablc RICIIARD ,TOSEPH SMITH. The Honorabie WrLLIAM DuCKETT WIIITE. 'l'he Honorable '\VESTERN ·woon. 1'he Honorable WILLIAJ\l HENRY YALDWYN.

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY. 'I'he Speaker-The Honorablc GILBERT IhiOTT (1Vide Ba,lf). List of Members. The Honorable JosHUA PETER BELL, Colonial Treasurer (lf'est 1lfm·eton). CHARLES \VILLIAM BLAKENEY, Esquire (Brisbane). WrLLIAM BROOKES, Esquire (Brisbane). HENRY CHALLINOR, Esquire (Ipswich). CHARLES CoXEN, Esquire, Chairman of Committees (Northern Downs) . .BENJAMIN Cmnn, Esquire (West Moreton). ROBERT Cmnn, Esquire (East Moreton). G~:ORGE ELPIUNSTONE DALRYMPLE, Esquire (Kennedg). SYDNEY BllAVAN DAvrs, Esquire (Clermont). JoHN DouGLAS, Esquire (Port Curtis). GEORGE EDMONDSTONE, Esquire (East Mo1·eton). CHARLES FITZSIMMONS, Esquire (Rockhampton). FREDERICK AuGUSTUS FORBES, Esquire (Warre,qo). WILLJ.A.M HENRY GRomr, Esquire (D1·agton and Toowoomba). CHARLES RoBERT HALY, EsquirE' (Burnett). HABETICAL INDEX

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QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES.

Abraham Lincoln, Address of Condolence to Appropriation Bill, 669, 676, 690. Mrs., 393, 404. Assembly, lHeetings of, 11. Absent Member, 14. Assembly, Salary of the Speaker, 552. Accessories Bill, 394. Assent to Bills, 693. Accounts between New South \V[tles and Queens· Assessments, Pastoral, 19. land, Ac\justment of, 64.3. ATTOR~EY·GEXEI, 12.-ChurchofEngland, Address of Council in reply to Opening Speech, 3. 28, 73.-Real Estate of Intestates Distribu­ Address of Conclolcnce to Mrs. Lincoln, 393, 40J. tion, 33.-Careless use of Fire, 63.­ 'l'rade ]Harks, 8'1.-Railway from Toowoomba Addre~ses in reply to Opening Speech, presenta· tion of, 10. to \Varwick, 112.-Subsidy to the Queens· land Steam Narigation Company, 121.­ Addresses to the Governor-Assent to Bills, 3, 6, Report of Committee of Elections and 603. Qualifications on election for Mitchell, Adjournment of the House, motions for, 10, 12, 140.-Qnestion of Order, 14-5.-District 11, 16, 21·, 85, 93, 140, 148, 183, 226, 231, Courts, 178.-Remittance of 1\Ionl.'y to 381, 387, 302, 303, 432, ·1-71, 621, 636. Emigration Commissioners, 212.-J'.furder Adjournment of Debate, motions for, 84, 136, at Toowoomba, 232, 296.-Real Property 171, 176, 223, 250, 254, 343, '161, 519, 532, Act Amendment, 239.-Conduct of Coro· 557. ner at Toowoomba, 296.-\Vays and 1\feuns, Adjustment of Accounts with New South Wales, 313.-Consolidation of Criminal Law, 3Hl. 613. -Claims against Government, 342, 387. Agricultural Reserres Act Amendment Bill, 37, - Adjournment of the House, 382. ­ 85, 365, 411, 5J8, 633. Criminal Practice, 390.-Insolvency Act, Aid to Religion, 116. 1864, 403. -Alleged Disfranchisement of Electors for Eastern Downs, 470.­ Alteration of Honrs of Sitting, 637. Question of Privilege (Publicution of Letter), Alleged Disfranchi•ement of Electors for Eastern 303.-Qucstion of Privilege, 506.-l~ncour­ Downs, 468. agemcnt to Cotton Growers, 525.-Salary of Alphabetical Order of N :unes in E-lection of Chief JusticP, 537.- Immigrants per" Peter 1\Icmbcrs of Select Committees where 'cotes Gocldefroy," 556. (Vide " PRixG," for re· arc equul, 471. mainder.) Amendment Bill, Crown I,ands Laws, 5·1.S. ATTOR~EY·GENERAL, The Honorable Jon~ Amcnclnwnt of the Comtitution of the Legisla­ BilA1ISCL'OX : Crown Lands Laws Amendment, tive Council, 14. 577, 583.-Govemment Annuities, 577.­ Amendment Bill, Real Property Act of 1861, 577, Hospitals, 579.-Parliament Buildings, 581. 590, 688. -Claims against Government, 580.-Rcal Property, 590.-Resignation of the Presi­ Annuities, Government, Bill, 466, 577. dent, 591, 617:- Selectors Relief, 637.­ Appointment of Attorney-General (Brnmston), J\!Iinisterial Explanation, 649.- .Municipal 576. Institutions, 651.-Distillation, 652, 685.­ Appointment of Members to paid Offices, 328. :Fourth Responsible Minister, 685. Approaehing dose of the 8es,;wu, 579. Attorney-General (Priug), Resignation of, 558. 2 INDEX.

Attorney-General (Bramston), Appointment of, 33.-Real Estate of Intestates Distribution, 576. 33, 608.-0pening of Roads, 36.-Agrieul­ Attorney-General, Office of, 578, 656. tnral Reserves, 43.-Registration of Electors, Auditor-General's Salary, proposed increase to, 58.-Privilege of Speech on motion for Acljournment of the House, 85.-Railway 637. from Toowoomba to '\Varwick, 99.-Subsidy Back)wuse, Mr. Benjamin, 227­ to Queensland Steam Navigation Company, Ballot, 56, 415. 135.-Report of Committee of Elections and Banks, Savings, Act Amendment Bill, 357, -104, Qualifications on election for J\.fitchell, 144.­ 500. Question of Order, 146.-Industrial Schools Bill, 147.-Railway between Brisbane and Bathurst Burr, 44. Ipswich, 167.-Remittance of Money to BELL, The Honorable JosHUA PETER: "Vide Emigration Commissioners, 206.-Real " CoLONIAL TREASURER." Property Act Amendment, 26J.-Insol­ Bench of Magistrates, Toowoomba, 20. vency Act of 1864, 402.-T:riennial Parlia­ Benches, the Brisbane and Ipswich, committals ments, 404, 609.-Allegecl Disfranchisement by, 12. of Electors for Eastern Downs, 468, 4·71.­ Benjamin Backhouse, J\;fr., 227. Proposed increase "to certain salaries, 530.­ Briclge over Drayton Creek, 561.-Govern­ BIGGE, The Honorable FRANCIS EDWARD: ment Contracts, 562. - Distillation, 565. Council Constitution, 92.-Real Property Act -Claims of the late Government Resident Amendment, 409.-Crown Lands Laws at Port Curtis, 593.-Vote in support of Amendment, 551, 586, Volunteers, 593.-Claim of the Honor­ Bills: Presentation of, to assert the Privileges of able Louis Hope, 594. - Salaries of the Parliament, 2, 6.-Council Constitution, 1·:L, Chairman of Committees of the LegislatiYO 86, 251, 323.-Church ofEngland, 25, 64, 115, Council and of the Legislative Assembly, 135.-Cemeteries, 33, 230, 521.-Real Eotate 603.-:I:Iunicipal Institutions Act, 60S.-Per­ of Intestates Distribution, 33, 608.-0pening sonal Explanation (Pring, re Intestate Estates ofRoads, 34·, 151,272.-Agricultural Reserves, Bill), 623.-Proposed increase to Auditor­ 37, 85, 365, 411, 548, 633.-Registmtion of General's Salary, 638.-Jtastern Downs Elec­ Electors, 56.-Careless use of Fire, 62, 29·1. toral Roll, 643. -Adju~tment of Accounts -Trade Marks Act Amendment, 81.-Indus­ with Xew South \Yalcs, 644.-Appointment trial and Reformatory Schools, 146, 254, 359. of Attorney-General, 659.-0ffice of Master -District Courts, 178, 401, 4.89.-Real Pro­ of Titles, 677. perty Act Amendment, 258, 405, 414, 577, Dowen, Steam Postal Communication between 584·, 590, 688.-Claims against Government, Brisbane and, 523. 335, 344•, 387, 588.- Savings Banks Act Bridge over Drayton Creek, 559. Amendment, 357, 40-i, 500.-Jury, 362, 649. -Crown Lands X on-Competitive Sales, 378. Brisbane and Dowen, Steam Postal Communica­ -Customs Duties Dill, 378.-Health, 378, tion between, 523. 649.-Criminal Practice, 390, 487.-Consoli­ Brisbane ancl Ipswich Benches, Committals by, 12. dation of Criminal Law-Offences against the Brisbane, Railway from, to Ipswich, 167. Person, Injuries to Property, Forgery, Coin­ DRAi\ISTON, The Honorable J ORN: Address in age OJfences, Larceny, Accessorie,_, 319, 394, reply to Opening Speech, 4.-Clerk of t.ha 489.-Registration of Elector~, 56, 400.­ Council, 13.-Constitution of Council, 14, 86, Triennial Parliaments, 404, 609, 636.-Im­ 865.-Absent Member, 14.-Ship "Fiery pounding Act Amendment, 423, 522.-Sum­ Star," 145.-'\V:n·wick Railway, 148.­ mary Ejectment, 425.-Government Annui­ 0pening of Roads Bill, 151, 273.-Industrial ti0.s, 466, 577.-Criminal Statutes Repeal, and Reformatory Schools, 359.-Jury, 362. 488.-Civil Service Act Repeal, 521.-Hos­ -New Houses of Parliament, 392.-Death pitals, 538, 579.-Crown Lands Laws Amend­ of the Honorablc F. N. Isaac, 392.-Days ment, 548, 577, 584.-Distillation, 562, 562, of Sitting, 39 i.-Consolidation of Criminal 685.-l'.funicipal Institutions Act of 1864 Law, 39-1·.-Regi,tration of Electors, 400.­ Amendment, 607, 651.-Selectors' Relief, District Courts, 401, 414, 490.-Eeal Propert-y 636, 651, 681.-Appropriation, 66!), 676, 690. Act,- 409, 414.-Agricultural Reserves Act Bills Discharged, 378, 521, 588, 608, 636, 649. Amendment, 411.-Criminal Practice, 487.­ DLAKENEY, CRA.RLES '\VILLIAM, EBquire (Xorth Criminal Statutes Bepeal, <188.- Offences Brisbane) : Meetings of the House, 12.­ against the Pm·son, 489.- Constitutional Committals by the Brisbane and Ipswich Position of Her ]\Iajesty's Representative Benches, 12.-Pastoral Asue~sment•, 20.­ in the Colony, 495, 497.- Government Church of England, 26, 76, 82.-Cemeteries, Savings Bauks, 500, 501.-Steam Postal INDEX. 3

Communication, 544.-Crown Lands Laws Chairman of Committees of the Legislative Coun­ Amendment, 550.-Appointment ofAttorney­ cil and of the Legiolative A"sembly, Salaries General, 576. (Vide" ATTORNEY-GENERAL," of the, 603. for mmainder.) Chairman of Committees-Question of Order in BROOKES, WILLIAM, Esquire (North B1·isbane) : Committee of Supply, 415. Address in reply to Opening Speech, 7.­ CHALLINOR, HENRY, Esquire (Ipswich): Meetings Church of England, 28, 81.-Post Office of the House, 11.-Registration of Electors, and Money Order Department, 48.-Careless 60.-Railway from Toowoomba to Warwick, URC of Fire, 62.-Trade :Harks, 8":1.-Privilege 101.-Subsidy to Queensland Steam N aviga­ of Speech on motion for Adjournment of the tion Company, 126.-Railway to Condamine, House, 85.-Railway from 'J'oowoomba to 159.-Railway between Brisbane and Ipswich, 'Warwick, 104.-Report of Committee of 173.-Remittance of Money to Emigration Elections and Qualifications on election Commissioners, 195.-Murderat Toowoomba, for Mitchell, 138.-Railwn,y to Cauda­ 235.-Industrial and Reformatory Schools mine, 159.-Railwn,y between Brisbane and Bill, 256.-Real Property Act Amendment, Ipswich, 175.-Remittn,nce of Money to Emi­ 271.-Claims of the Central and Northern gration Commissioner~, 219.-Mr. Benjamin Districts, 289.-Ways and Means, 304, 317. Backhouse, 229.-Holidays in Government -Council Constitution, 323.-Leichhardt Offices, 229.-Real Property Act Amendment, Search Fund, 332.-Claims against Govern· 262.-Claims of Central and Northern ment, 351.-Agricultural Reserves, 375.­ Districts, 280.-Claims against Government, Health, 381.-Adjournment of the House, 338.-Agricultural Reserves, 374.-Adjourn­ 384.-Telegrn,phic Extension, 390.-Supply, ment of the House, 383.-Late President of 430.-Proceedings in Committee Rooms the United States (Addre3s of Condolence (Question of Privilege), 465.--Mechanics' to Mrs. Lincoln), 393, 404.-Constitutional Institute, Spring Hill, 473.-Post Office and Position of the Governor, 447.-Question of Money Order Department, 479.-Question Privilege, 505, 506.-Proposed increase to of Privilege, 505.-Inspection· of Primary certain salaries, 534.-Distillation, 57 4. Schools, 519.-Encouragement to Cotton -Claim of the Honorable Louis Hope, 594. Growers, 525. - Hospitals, 540. -· Odd­ -Jetty at Sandgate, 605.-Triennial fellows' Society, 557.-Bridge over Dray­ Parliaments, 616.-Services of Dr. Lang ton Creek, 561.-Government Contracts, in the cause of Separation, 630.-Proposed 562. - Distillation, 569. - Claim of the increase to Auditor-General's Salary, 642.­ Honorable Louis Hope, 597.-Salaries of the Pl•oposed Remittance to Imperial Emigration Chairman of Committees of the LegiMlat.ive Commissioners, 647.-Appointment of At­ Council, and of the Legislative Assembly, torney-General, 664. 605.-Jetty at Sandgate, 606.-Rev. L. H. BROWXE, The Honorable EYLES IRWIN CAUL­ Rumsey, 624.-Services of the Rev. Dr. Lang in the cause of Separation, 631.­ FEILD : Addres~ in reply to Opening Speech, 4.-Council Constitution, 89.-Death of Agriooltural Reserves, 634.-Proposed in· Honorable Frederick Nevile Isaac, 393.­ crease to Auditor-General's Salary, 639.­ Criminn,l Practice Bill, 488.-Constitutional Adjustment of Accounts 1vith New South Position of the Governor, 498.-Parliament ·wales, 645.-Existing and Proposed Lines Buildings, 582.-Fourth Responsible Min­ of Steam Communication, 675.-0ffice of ister, 685. Master of Titles, 680. Chief Justice, Salary of the, 537. Buildings, Parliament, 579, 650. Chief Officer of the "Commodore Perry,"' 535, Burr, Bn,thurst, 44. 599. Business of Assembly, days for despatch of, 11. Church of England Bill, 25, 64, 115, 135. Business of Council, days for despatch of, 10. Civil Service Act Repen,l Bill, 521. Claim of the Honorable Louis Hope, 594. Careless Use of Fire Bill, 62, 294. Claims of the Central and Northern Districts, 273. Carpentaria, Telegraph Extension to the Gulf of, Claims against Government Bill, 335, 344, 387, 643. 588. Cemeteries Bill, 33, 230, 521. Claims of the late Government Resident at Port Central and Northern Districts, claims of the, 273. Curtis, 592. Certain Salaries, proposed inc1'ease to, 526. Clergymen, grant in aid of, 116. Chairman of Committees : Vide " CoxEN, Clerk of the Council, 13, 24, 136. CHARLES, Esquire," and " RoBERTS, the Close of the Session, approaching, 579. Honorable DANIEL FOLEY." Coinage Offences Bill, 394. 4 INDEX.

COLONIAL SECRETARY, The Honorable RoBERT ting, 637.-Proposed Increase to Auditor­ GEORGE WYNDRAM HERBERT (West More· General's Salary, 637.-Telegraph Extension tor•): Meetings of the House, 11.-Insolvent to the Gulf of Carpentaria, 643.-Adjust­ Magistrates, 16.--Steam Communication, 16. ment of Accounts with New South Wales, -Bench of Magistrates, Toowoomba, 22.­ 643.-Health Bill, 649.-Appointment of Clerk of the Council, 24.- Church of Attorney-General, 656.-Existing and Pro­ England, 26, 116.-Cemeteries, 33.-Post posed Lines of Stt.>am Communication, 669. Office and Money Order Department, 50.­ -Transmission of Messages from the Legis­ Registration of Electors, 56.-Question to lative Council, 688. Private Member, 93.-Railway from Too· CoLONIAL TREASURER, The IIonorable JoSHUA woomba to Warwick, 98.- Subsidy to PETER BELL (West Moreton) : Petition Queensland Steam Navigation Company, from the "\Varrego, 18.-Power to withdraw .119.-Challenges Votes of Members having a Motion, 24.-Bathnrst Burr, 44.-Post pecuniary interest in foregoing question, 132. Office and lfoney Order .Department, 47, 482. -Report of Committee of Elections and -Registration of Electors, 56.-Railway Qualifications on Election for Mitchell, 136. from Toowoomba to Warwick, 102.-Sub­ -Question of Order, 145.-Industrial and sidy to the Queensland Steam Navigation Reformatory Schools, 146, 256.-Encourage­ Company, 124.-Railway to Condamine, 158. ment of Sericulture, 152.-Railway to Conda­ -Railway between Brisbane and Ipswich, mine, 163.-District Courts, 182.-Adjourn· 172.-Remittance of Money to Emigration mentofthe House, 183.-RemittanceofMoney Commissioners, 215.-Immigration Debate, to Emigration Commissioners, 189, 646.­ 227.-Financial Statement, 235.-Expendi­ Immigration Debate, 227.- Holidays in tnrc out of Immigration Loans, 258.-Ways Government Offices, 230.-Maryboroup;h and and Means, 297.-Council Constitution, 327. Gayndah Telegraph, 230.-Murder at Too· -Claims against Government, 354.-Savings woomba, 232.-Ways and Means, 247, 316. Banks, 357, 404.-Customs Duties, 378.­ -Council Constitution, 251, 327.- Ap· Immigration Expenditure, 427.-Supply, 4·32. pointment of Members to Paid Offices, 328. -Government Annuities, 466.-Steam Postal -Leichhardt Search Fund, 329.-Claims Communication between Brisbane and Bowen, ap;ainst Government, 338, 351. - HE'alth, 524.-Restrictions on Sheep, 541.-Distilla­ 378.-Rev. P. Dunne ancl Immigration, tion Bill, 562.-Jetty at Sandgate, 606.­ 3R7.- Telegraphic Extension, 388.-Late Tri\'nnial Parliaments, 610. - Agricultural President of United States (Address to Reserves, 635.-Proposed Increase to Audi­ Mrs. Lincoln), 393.- Governor's Speech at tor-General's Salary, 638.-Appointment of Grammar School, Ipswich, 420.-Impound­ Attorney-General, 663.-Appropriation Bill, inp; Act of 1863 Amendment, 424.-Sum­ 669, 676.-English Mails for the North, 680. mary Ejectment, 426.-Supply, 427.­ Commercial Transactions, Public Officers engaged Constitutional position of the Governor, in, 627. 434, •161.- Proce<')dings in Committee Commi,sioners, Imperial Emigration, 183, 6·1.6. Rooms (Question of Privile;:;e), 465.-Im­ Committals by the Brisbane and Ipswich Benches, proper Treatment of Immigrants, 472.­ 12. Mechanics' Institute, Spring Hill, 472.­ Committee Rooms, ProceNlings in, 463. Immigration, 493.-Proposed Increase to Committee, moved for, but not appointed, 592. certain Salaries, 5'2"\.-The "Commodore Committees, Salaries of the Chairmen of, 603. Perry," 536. - Hospitals, 538. - Gratuity Committees : Address in Reply to Opening to Rev. Dr. Lang, ~43. - Salaries of Speech (Council), 3-(Assembly), 6.-Stand­ the President of the Legislative Council ing Orders, 13, 126.-Steam Communication, and the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, 16, 544, 669.-·Post Office and Money Order 553.-Immigrants per "Peter Goddefroy," Department, 45, -:t75.-Eltdions and Qualifi· 555.-0ddfellows' Society, 557.-Resignation cations, 136.-"\Vays and Means, 235, 297.­ of the Attorney-General, 558.-0ffice of "\V. H. Richards and Co.'s Petition, 35·4, 682. Attorney-General, 579.-Claims of the late -Claims against Government Bill, 387.­ Government Resident at Port Curtis, 592.­ InsolvencyLaw, 402.-Real Property Act of Chief Officer of the " Commodore Perry," 1864, 414, 577, 590.-Supply, 415, 427, 543. 601.-Municipal Institutions Act, 608.­ -Alleged Disfranchisement of Electors for Rl'al Estate of Intestates Distribution, 609. Eastern Downs, 468, 6t3.-The " Comma· -Personal Explanation (Pring, re Intestate dore Perrv," 535, 599. Estates Bill), 622.-Rev. L. H. Rumsey, "Commodore·Perry," Chief Officer of the, 535, 626.-Public Officers engaged in Commercial 599. Transactiom, 627.-Agricultural Reserves, Communication, Steam Postal, Existing and Pro· 634.- Alteration of the Hours of Sit­ poseti Lines of, 16, 54"1, 669. INDEX. 5

Communication, Steam, between Brisbane and to the Queensland Steam Navigation Corn· Bowen, 523. pany, 125.-Question of Order, 146.­ Company, Subsidy to the Queensland Steam Encouragement of Sericulture, 153.-Rail· Navigation, 116. way to Condamine, 156.-Railway between Condamine, Railway to, 154. Brisbane and Ipswich, 172.-Remittance of Money to Emigration Commissioners, 200. Condolence, Address of, to 1\Irs. Lincoln, 393, 404. -Real Property .Act Amendment, 266, 689. -Claims of the Central and Northern Dis· Conduct of Coroner at Toowoomba, 295. tricts, 292.-Council Constitution, 323.­ Consolidation of Criminal Law, 319, 394. Appointment of Members to Paid Offices, Constitutional Position of Her 1\fajest.y' s Repre­ 328.-Leichhardt Search Fund, 332.­ sentative in the Colony, 434, 486, 495, 558. 0laims against Government, 353.-W. H. Constitution of Legislative Council Bill, 14•, 86, Richards and Co., 357.-Savings Banks, 359. 251, 323. -Agricultural Reserves, 377, 634.-Summary Contracts, Government, 562 Ejectment, 425.-Supply, 430.-Constitu­ tional Position of the Governor, 461.-Ques­ Coroner at Toowoomba, Conduct of, 295. tion of Privilege, 507.-Salaries of the Pre­ Cotton and Sugar Regulations, 526. sident of the Legislative Council and the Cotton Growers, Encouragement to, 525. Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, 553.­ Courts, District, Bill, 401, 489. 0ddfellmvs' Society, 556.-Bridge over Courts, District, 178. Drayton Creek, 560.-Claim of the Honor­ Council, Constitution of, 14, 86, 251, 323. able Louis Hope, 598.-Personal Explanation Council, Legislative, Bill, 14, 86, 251, 323. (Pring, re Intestate Estates Bill), 623.-Rev. L. H. Rumsey, 626.-Services of Rev. Dr. Council, Meetings of, 10. Lang in the cause of Separation, 630.-Pro­ Council, Resignation of the President of the, 617. posed Inc1·ease to Auditor-General's Salary, Council, Salary of the President of the, 552• 638.-Adjustment of Accounts with New "Counted out," 617. South Wales, 6·15.-Appointment of Attor­ Council, Clerk of the, 13, 24, 136. ney-General, 667.-Existing and Proposed Council, Transmission of Messages from the Lines of Steam Communication, 674.-0ffice Legislative, 688. of J\ifaster of Titles, 677.-Selectors' Relief 682. CoxEN, CHARLES, Esquire, Chairman of Com­ Criminal Law, Consolidation of, 319, 394. mittees (Northern JJowns) : .Agricultural Reserves, 42, 377.-Railwayfrom Toowoomba Criminal Practice Bill, 390, 487. to ·warwick, 105.-Report of Committee of Criminal Statutes Repeal Bill, 488. Elections and Qualifications on Election for Crown Lands Laws Amenclmcnt Bill, 548, 577, Mitchell District, 140.-Encouragement of 584. Sericulture, 151.-Railway to Condamine, Crown Lands Non-competitive Sales Bill, 378. 155.-Remittance of Jl.'Ioney to Emigration Commissioners, 224.-Question of Order, Customs Duties Bill, 378. 231, 250.-\Vays and Means, 319.-Leich­ hnrdt Search ]'und,332.-Claims against Gov­ DALRYMPLE, GEORGE ELPIIINSTONE, Esquire ermnentBill, 354.-Impounding .Act of 1863 (Kennedy) : Cla,ims of Central and Northern Amendment, 423.-Constitutional Position of Districts, 284.-Leichhardt Search Fund, the Governor, 455.-Question of Privilege, 330.-.Agricultural Reserves, 377.-Telegra­ 505.-Distillation Bill, 570. -Agricultmal phic Extension, 390.-Memorial of Northern Reserves, 634. Squatters, 421.-Proceedings in Committee CRIBB, BE~JAliUN, Esquire (West Moreton) : Rooms (Question of Privilege), 464. Railway between Brisbane and Ipswich, 176. DAVIS, SYDNEY BEAYAN, Esquire (Olermont): CRIBB, RoBERT, Esquire (East ltforeton) : Real Property Act Amendment, 267. Address in reply to Opening Speech, 10.­ Days for Despatch of Business, 10, 11. l\.feetings of the House, 11.-Committals by Days of Sitting, 10, 11, 394, 637. the Brisbane and Ipswich Benches, 13.-Pas, Death of The Honorable Frederick Nevile Isaac, toral Assessments, 19.-Church of England, 392. 25, 84.-Real Estate of InteBtates Distribu­ tion, 34.-Post Office and Money O<·der Debate, Adjournment of, Motions for, 84, 250, Department, 54.-Registration of Electors, 343, 552. 61.- Privilege of Speech on Motion for Debate, Immigration, 226. Adjournment of the House, 85.-Railway Debates of present Session not to be referred to, from Toowoumba to "Warwick, 99.-SubEidy 432. 6 INDEX.

Department, Post Office and Money Order, 45, of ilhe Honor!l.ble Louis Hope, 596.-Jetty 475. at Sandgate, 606. -Triennial Parliaments, Despatch of Business, Days for, 10, 11. 614.-Services of Rev. Dr. Lang in the cause Distillation Bill, 562, 652, 685. of Separation, 629.-Agricultural Reserves, 635.-Proposed Increase to Auditor-General's District Courts, 178, 401, 489. Salary, 640.-Ac1justment of Accounts with Disallowance of Y otes, 132. New South Wales, 645.-Proposed Remit­ Disfranchisement of Electors for Eastern Downs, tance to Imperial Emigration Commissioners, 468. 649. -Appointment of Attorney-General, Distribution of Real Estate of Intestates, 33, 608. 661.-Existing and Proposed Lines of Steam District Courts Bill, 178, 401. Communication, 672.-0ffice of Master of Districts, Claims of the Central and Northern, Titles, 679.-Selectors' Relief, 681. 273. Downs, Eastern, Alleged Disfranchisement of Disqualification against Y oting, 132. Electors for, 468, 6'13. Drainage of Toowoomba Swamps, 257. Divisions : Vide " List of Divisions." Draughtsman, Parliamentary, 656. DouGLAS, JoHN, Esquire (Port Gurtis) : Address Drayton Creek, Bridge over, 559. in reply to Opening Speech, 8.-Steam Com­ munication,17.-Powerto withdraw a Motion, Dr. Lang, The Rev., proposed Gratuity to, 543, 23.-Church of England, 27, 68.-Agricul­ 629. tural Reserves, 38.-Post Office and Money Dunne, Rev. Patrick, 386. Order Department, 52.-Registration of Elec­ Duties, Customs, Bill, 368. tors, 61.-Privilege of Speech on Motion for .Adjournment of the House, 85.-Railway Eastern Downs, AllPged Disfranchisement of from Toowoomba to Warwick, 94.-Subsidy Electors for, 468, 6·!3. to the Queensland Steam Navigation Com­ EDMONDSTONE, GEORGE, Esquire (East llforeton): pany, 127.-Reportof Committee ofElections Committals by the Brisbane and Ipswich and Qualifications on Election for Mitchell, Benches, 12.-Subsidy to Queensland Steam 138.-Question of Order, 146.-Railway to Navigation Company, 135.-Queen's Plate, Condamine, 157.-Railway between Brisbane Gayndah, 537. and Ipswich, 176.-Remittance of Money to Emigration Commissioners, 196.-Immigra­ Ejectmeni, Snmn1ary, :Bill, 435. tion Debate, 227.-Ways and Means, 248, Elections and Qualifications Committee, Report of, 297, 314.-Industrial and Reformatory on Election for :M:itchell, 136. Schools Bill, 256.-Real Property Act Electors, Registration of, Bill, 56, 400. Amendment, 265.-Claims of Central and Electors for Eastern Downs, Alleged Disfranchise­ Northern Districts, 285.-Ways and Means, ment of, 468. 297.-Council Constitution, 32-t.-Leichhardt ELIOTT, The Honorable GILBERT : Vide Search Fund, 332.-Claims against Govern­ "SPEAKER." ment, 343, 344.-'\V. H. Richards and Co., 357.-Savings Banks, 359.-Agricultural Emigration Commissioners, Remittance of Money Reserves, 366, 372.-A.djournment of the to, 183, 6·16. House, 384.-Telegraphic Extension, 389.­ Encouragement of Sericulture, 151. Late President of the United States Encom·agement of Cotton Growing, 525. (Address to Mrs. Lincoln), 393.-Triennial England, Church of, Bill, 25, 64, 115, 135. Parliaments Bill, 404.-SLlpply, 427, 431, English Mails for the North, 680. 432.-Constitutional Position of the Gov­ Estate, Real, of Intestates Distribution Bill, 33, ernor, 440.-Proceedings in Committee 608. Rooms (Question of Privilege), 465.-J\fecha­ Existing and Proposed Lines of Steam Communi­ nics' Institute, Spring Hill, 47·~.-Question of Privih,ge, (publication of letter), 503, 507. cation, 16, 544, 669. -Inspection of Primary Schools, 508, 520.­ Expenditure out of Immigration Loans, 258, 427. Steam Postal Communication between Bris­ Explanation, Ministerial, 649. bane and Bowen, 523.-Proposed Increase to Explanation, Personal (Pring, re Estate of certain Salaries, 529, 534.-The "Commo­ Intestates Distribution Bill), 621. dore Perry," 535, 599. - Gratuity to Rev. Extension, Telegraphic, 388, 643. Dr. Lang, 543.-Immigrants per "Peter G-oddefroy," 555.-0ddfeliows' Society, tit>"7. -Bridge over Drayton Creek, 561.-Distilla­ "Fiery Star," Ship, 144. tion Bill, 566.-0laims of the late Govern­ Financial Statement, 235. ment Resident at Port Curtis, 592.-Claim Fire Bill, Careless uoe of, 62, 294. INDEX. 7

FrTz, The Honorable HENRY BATES : Council Constitutional Position of the Governm•, 454. Constitution, 89.-0peuing of Roads Bill, -Post OlHce and Money Order Department, 273.-Careless use of Fire Bill, 295.­ 483.-Proposed Increase to certain Salaries, District Courts Bill, 491.-Constitutional 531.-Restrictions on Sheep, 540.-Bridge Position of the Governor, 499.-Govern­ over Drayton Creek, 561.-Distillation Bill, ment Savings Banks Bill, 501. 567.-Claim of the Honorable Louis Hope, FITZSIM:UONS, CHARLES, Esquire (Rockhampton): 595.-Triennial Parliaments, 612.-Rev. L. Address in Reply to Opening Speez;h, 10.­ H. Rumsey, 626.-Public Officers engaged Steam Communication, 18. _ Church of in Commercial Transactions, 628 -Adjust­ England, 31, 83.-Agricnltural Reserves, 4l, ment of Accounts with New South vVales, 373.-Raihvay from 'l'oowoomba to Warwick, 641.--Existing and Proposed Lines of Steam 106.-Subsidy to the Queensland Steam , Communication, 673.

Navigation Company, 129.-Report of Com­ '1 Forgeries Bill, 3()4. mittee of Elections and Qualifications on Fourth Responsible Minister, 683. Election for Mitchell, 140.-Railway to Fund, Leichhardt Search, 329. Condamine, 157.-Railway between ;Brisbane and Ipswich, 173.-District Courts Bill, 182. Gayndah, Queen's Plate, 536. -Hemittance of Money to Emigration Com­ missioners, 221.-Mr. Benjamin Backhouse, Gayndah and Maryborough Telegraph, 230. 227.-Claims of Central and Northern Dis­ Gayndah and Maryborough Road, 333. tricts, 283.-Ways and Means, 310.-Leich­ GORE, The Honorable ST. GEORGE RICHARD : hardt Search Fund, 331. - Adjourn­ Council Constitution, 88.-vV arwick Rail­ ment of the House, 385.-Rev. P. Dunne way, 149.--0pening of Roads Bill, 273.­ an'cl Immigration, 386.-Supply, 429.­ Careless use of Fire Bill, 294_,.-Industrial and Constitutional Position of the Governor, Reformatory Schools, 360.-Jury Bill, 364. 439.-Immigration, 495.-Q.uestion of Privi­ -Death of Honorable F. N. Isaac, 393. lege, 506, 507.-Proposed Increase to certain -Consolidation of Criminal Law, 398.­ Salaries, 529.--8 alaries of the President of Registration of Electors, 401.-Real Property the Legislative Council and the Speaker of Act Amendment, 409.-Agricultural Reserves the Legi>lative Assembly, 552. - Odd­ Act Amendment, 413.-0lfences against the fellows' Society, 557.-Claims of the late Person, 489.-Constitutional Po,ition of the Go,ernment Resident at Port Curtis, 593.­ Governor, 4US. -Impounding Act 1863 Salaries of Chairman of the Legislative Amendment, 523. -Parliament Buildings, Council and of the Legislative Assembly, 581, 651.-Crown Lands Laws, 58•t.-Resig­ 604.-Triennial Parliaments Bill, 615.­ nation of the President, 621.-Distillation Services of the Rev. Dr. Lang in the cause of Bill, 654·, 687.-Fourth Responsible Minister, Separation, 631.-Agricultural Re•ervcs, 634. 684.-Appropl•iation Bill, 69(). -Adjustment of Accounh with New South Government Annuities, 466, 577. \\Tales, 645.-Existing and Proposed Lines Government, Claims against, 335, 344, 387, 588. of Steam Communication, 674.-English Government Contracts, 562. Mails for the North, 680. Government Offices, Holidays in, 229. FREDERICK NEVILE ISAAC, Death of the Honorable, 392. Government Resident at Port Curtis, Claims of the late, 592. FonBES, FREDERICK AuGUSTUS, Esquire (War­ Government Savings Banks, 40:t, 500. •·ego): Petition from the \Varrego, lB.­ Governor's Speech at Ipswich Grammar School, Pastoral Assessments, 19.-Church of Eng­ 415. land, 30, 82.-Agricultural Reserves, 40. -Registration of Electors, 58.-Railway Governor, The, Constitutional Position of, 43·i, from Toowoomba to vVm·wick, 100.-Subsidy 486, 495, 558. to the Queensland Steam Navigation Com­ Prorogation of Parliament by the Governor, 693. pany, 126.-Report ofCommittee ofElections Opening of Parliament by the Governor, 1. and Qualifications on Election for l\fitchell, Governor, Address to, 3, 6, 693. 14·2.-Encouragement of Sericulture, 152.­ GOVER"I

GROOM, WILLIAM HENRY, Esquire (Drayton and House, Meetings of the, 10, 11. Toowoomba): Insolvent Magistrates, 16.­ Houses of Parliament, New, 390, 392. Steam Communicatiov, 17.-Pastoral Assess­ ments, 1m9.-Bench of Magistrates, Too­ Immigrants, improper treatment of, 471. woomba, 20.-0pening of Roads, 35.­ Immigrants per "Peter Goddefroy," 553. Agricultural Reserves Bill, 39 ..:_ Registration Immigration, 226, 491, 502. of Electors, 61. -Church of England, Immigration Loans, expenditure out of, 258, 427. 83.-Railway from Toowoomba to \Var­ wick, 106.-Irregular Motion for a Grant Immigration and Rev. P. Dunne, 386. in aid of Religion, 116.-Murder at Too­ Imperial Emigration Commissioners, remittance woomba, 231.-Ways and Means, 243, 311. of money to, 183, 646. -Toowoomba Swamps Drainage, 257.­ Impounding Act Amendment Bill, 423, 522. Conduct of Coroner at Toowoomba, 295.­ Improper treatment of immigrants, 471. Leichhardt Search Fund, 330.-Agricultural Increase of certain salaries, proposed, 526. Reserves, 375.-Health Bill, 381.-Adjourn­ Increase, Proposed, to Auditor-General's Salary, ment of the House, 383-Improper Treat­ 637: ment of Immigrants, 471.-Proposed Increase Industrial and Reformatory Schools, 146, 254, to certain Salaries, 531.-Hospitals Bill, 540. 359. -Immigrants per "Peter Goddefroy," 553. Injuries to Property Bill, 394. -Bridge over Drayton Creek, 559. Insolvent Magistrates, 16. Growers, Encouragement to Cotton, 525. Insolvency Act of 1864, 402. Gulf of Carpentaria, Telegraph Extension to, 643. Institute, Mechanics', Spring Hill, 472. Institutions, Municipal, Act of 1864 Amendment HALY, ROBERT CHARLES, Esquire (Burnett) : Bill, 607, 651. Encouragement of Sericulture, 153.-Railway Inspection of Primary Schools, 508. to Condamine, 158.-Remittance of Money Into.states, Real Estate of, Distribution Bill, 33, to Emigration Commissioners, 225.-Murder 608. at Toowoomba, 233.-Claims of Oentral and Ipswich and Brisbane Benches, committals by, 12. Northern Districts, 288.-Claims against Government, 348.-Agricultural Reserves, Ipswich, l{ailway between Brisbane and, 167. 374.-Adjournment of the House, 383.­ Ipswich, Governor's speech at Grammar School, Immigration, 494.-Encouragement to Cotton 415. Growers, 526.-Queen's Plate, Gayndah, 536. Irregular motion, 116. -Restrictions on Sheep, 542. Irregularity not to be rectified by motion for ad­ HARRIS, The Honorable GEORGE: Real Property journment of the House, 93. Act Amendment, 405, 414, 577, 587.-Agri­ ISAAC, The Honorable FIIEDERICK NEVILLE, cultural Reserves, 413.-Parliament Build­ death of, 392. ings, 582.-Claims against Government, 590. Jetty at Sandgate, 605. - Re,ignation of the President, 621.-Fourth Responsible Minister, 685. J ohnson, Henry, Esquire, Clerk of the Council, 13. Health Bill, 378, 649. Joint Committee of the two Houses, 16, 544, 669. HERBERT, The Honorable RoBERT GEORGE JoNES, JoHN GoRE, Esquire (1riitcheU): Com­ \VY"'DHAM: "Vide " COLONIAL SECRETARY." mittals by the Brisbane and Ipswich Benches, 12.-Petition from the \Varrego, lB.-Pas­ Her Majesty's Representative in the Colony, Con­ toral Assessments, 20.-Church of England, stitutional position of, 434, 486, 495, 558. 31.-Post Office and Money Order Depart­ Honns, The Honorable WILLIAM : Constitutional ment, 50.-Proceedings in Committee Rooms position of the Governor, 498.-Government (Question of Privilege), 465.-Alleged Dis­ Savings Banks, 500. franchisement of Electors for I~ astern Downs, Holidays in Government Offices, 229. 469.-Question of Privilege (Publication of Honorable F. N. Isaac, Death of the, 392. Letter), 503.-Proposed Increase to certain Honorable Louis Hope, Claim of the, 594. Salaries, 530.-Queen's Plate, Gayndah, 537. HoPE, The Honorable Lours : Distillation Bill, -Gratuity to Rev. Dr. Lang, 544.-Claim 653, 685. of the Honorable Louis Hope, 595.-Salaries of the Chairman of Committees of the Legis· Hope, Claim of the IIonorable Louis, 594. lative Council and of the Legislative Hospitals Bill, 538, 579. Assembly, 604.-Public Officers engaged in Hours, Alteration of the, of Sitting, 637. Commercial Transactions, 628. -Proposed House, adjournment of, 10, 85, 93, 140, 148, 183, increase to Auditor-General's Salary, 642.­ 2:!6, 381, 387, 3\.12, 303, 432, 621. Appointment of Attorney-General, 662. INDEX. 9

Jury Bill, 362, 649. Institute, Spring Hill, 473.-Question of Justice, Chief, salary, 537. Privilege, 506.-Immigrants per "Peter God­ defray," 556. L. H. Rumsey, 624. Lincoln, 1\frs. Abral1am, Address of Condolence Land, Grant of, to Squatters, 602. to, 393, 404. LaNDSBOROUGH, The Honorable '.VrLLUM: Ad­ Loans for Immigration, expenditure out of, 258, dress in Reply to Opening Speech, 4.­ 427. Council Constitution, 88.-Careless Use of Louis Hope, Claim of the Honorable, 594. Fire, 294. - Industrial and Reformatory Schools, 361.-Real Property Act Amend­ MacaLISTER, The Honorable ARTHUR : Vide ment, 410, 414.-Agricultural Reserves Act "SECRETARY FOR LaNDS AND WoRKs." Amendment, 412.-District Courts, 490.­ MacKENZIE, RoBERT RAMSAY, E~quire (Bu1·nett) : Impounding Act 1863, 522.-Steam Postal Queensland Volunteers, 14.-Clerk of the Communication, 547.-Crown Lands Laws Council, 24·, 64.-Church of England, 25.­ Amendment, 552, 577, 586.-Clairns against Post Office and Money Order Department, 45. Government, 589.-Resignation of the Presi­ -Careless Use of Fire, 64.-Railway from dent, 621.-Selectors Relief Bill, 637.-Distil­ Toowoomba to War\!tick, 97.-Subsidy to the lation Bill, 654, 687.-Fourth Responsible Qneemland Steam Navigation vompany, Minister, 685.-Thc President, 692. 123.-Report of Committee of Elections and Lands, Crown, Laws Amendment Bill, 548, 577, Qualifications on Election for Mitchell, 140. 584. -Question of Order, 145.-Railway to Con­ Lands, Crown, Non-competitive Sales Bill, 378. damine, 157.-Remittance of ::11:oney to Im­ Lands and '.Vorks: Vide "SECRETARY FOR LANDS perial Emigration Commissioners, 183.­ AND WORKS." Immigration Debate, 227.-Murder at Too­ Lang, Rev. Dr., proposed Gratuity to, 543, 629. woomba, 234.-Ways and Means, 243, 297, :lOR.-Ohims of the Oentrrtl and Northern .Larceny 1:5111, il~4. Districts, 281.-Legislative Council Constitu­ Late Government Resident at Port Curtis, Claims tion, 323.-Leichh:1l"dt Search Fund, 330.­ of the, 592. Claims against Government, 348.-'.V. H. Late President of the United States (Proposed Richards and Company, 357.-Savings Banks, Address of Condolence to Mrs. Lincoln), 393. 359.-Agricultural Reserves, 372.-A.djourn­ Law, Consolidation of Criminal, 319, 394. ment of the House, 382.-Memorial of Laws, Crown Lands, Amendment Bill, 548, 577, Northern Squatters, 423.- Supply, 429. 584. -Constitutional Position of the Governor. Legislative Assembly, meetings of, 11. 438, 461.-Post Office and Money Order Department, 47 5. - Question of Privi­ Legislative Council, meetings of, 10. lege (Publication of Letter), 502.-Steam Legislative Council, Clerk of th~, 13, 24. Postal Communication between Brisbane and Legislative Council Constitution Amendment, 14, Bowen, 524.-Encouragement to Cotton 86, 251, 323. Growers, 525.-Proposed Increase to Certain Legislative Council, Transmission of Jl,fessages Salaries, 529.-Restrictions on Sheep, 541.­ from the, 688. 0ddfellows' Society, 556.-Clainis of the Leichhardt Search Fund, 329. late Government Resident at Port Curtis, LrLLEY, CHARLES, Esquire (Fortitilde Valley) : 593. - Claim of the Houorable Louis Committals by the Brisbane and Ipswich Hope, 594.--Salaries of the Chairman or' Benehes, 13.-Pastoral Assessments, 20.­ Committees of the Legislative Council and of Church of England, 26, 79.-Post Office the Legislative Assembly, 604.-Proposed and Money Order Department, 54"-Railway Gratuity to the Rev. Dr. Lang, 631.-Pro­ from 'roowoomba to '.Varwick, 101.­ posed Increase to Auditor-General's Salary, Subsidy to Queensland Navigation Company, 638.--Adjustment of Accounts with New 132.-Report of Committee of Elections and South '.Vales, 644.-Proposed Remittance to Qualifications on Election for Mitchell, 139. Imperial Emigration Commissioners, 647.­ -Que~tion of Order, 146.-Railway to Con­ Appointment of Attorney-General, 656.­ damine, 156.-District Courts, 183.-Remit­ Appropriation Bill, 676. tance of Money to Emigration Commissioners, McDouGaLL, The Honorable JOHN FREDERICK: 210.-Real Property Act Amendment, 267.­ Council Constitution, 90. Claims against Government, 340.-Adjourn­ McLEAN, JoHN DoNALD, Esquire (Eastern ment of the House, 385.-Imolvency 1864 Downs) : Agricultural Reserves, 42.-Post Act, 403. - Alleged Disfranchisement of Office and Money Order Department, 53. Electors for Eastern Downs, 470.-Mechanics' - Careless Use of Fire, . 64. - Railway 10 INDEX.

from Toowoomba to 'Varwick, 101.-Subsidy 389.-Road from Yuella Creek to Roma, to the Queensland Steam Navigation Com· 420.-Road Votes (Motion for Adjournment), pany, 121.-Railway to Condamine, 156.­ 432.-Constitutional Position of the Gover­ Remittance of Afoney to Emigration Com· nor, 462.-Proceedings in Committee Rooms m1sswners, 204. - Ways and Jl,feans, (Que;tion of Privilege), 464.-Queen's Plate, 312.- Leichha1·dt Search Fund, 330.­ Gayndah, 537.-Bridge over Drayton Creek, Mechanics' Institute, Spring Hill, 473.­ 560.-Triennial Parliaments, 616.-Agricul­ Restrictions on Sheep; 542.-Salaries of the tural Reserves, 634. President of the Legislative Council and Ministerial Explanation, 619. Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, 553.­ Minister, Fourth Responsible, 683. Bridge over Drayton Creek, 560.-Distilla­ Mitchell Election, Report of Committee of Elec­ tion Bill, 566.-0laims of the late Govern­ tions and Qualifications on, 136. ment Resident at Port Cnrtis, 593.-Trien­ Money, Remittance of, to Emigration Commis­ nial Parliaments, 611. - Agricultural Re­ serves, 635. sioners, 183, 64.6. Magistrates, Insolvent, 16. Money Order Office, 45, 475. Magistrates, Bench of, Toowoomba, 20. Motion, Irregular, 116. J\:Iotion, Power to withdraw, 23. Mails, English, for the North, 680. :Motions for Adjournment of the Hous-e, 10, 85, 93, Majesty's, Her, Representative, Constitutional 140, 148, 183, 226, 381, 387, 392, 393, 432. position of, 434, 486, 495, 558. Mrs. Lincoln, Proposed Address to, 393. Means and Ways, 235, 297. Municipal Institutions Act of 1864 Amendment Mechanics' Institute, Spring Hill, 4.72. Bill, 607, 651. Maryborough and Gayndah Telegraph, 230. Murder at Toowoomba, 231, 295. Maryborough and Gaynclah Road, 333. Maryborough ·water Supply, 335, 602. N avigat.ion Company, Subsidy to Queensland Marks, Trade, Bill, 84. Steam, 116. Master of Titles, Office of, 656, 676. New Houses of Parliament, 390, 392, 579, 650. Meeting of Parliament, 1, 690. New South Wales, Adjustment of Accounts with, Meetings of the Assembly, 11. 643. Meetings of the Council, 10. Non-competitive, Crown Lands, Sales Bill, 378. :Member, Absent, 14. North, English Mails for the, 680. Jl,fember, power of, to withdraw a Jl.fotion, 23. Northern and Centml Districts, Claims ofthe, 273. Member, Question to Private, 92. Northern Squatters, Memorial of, 421.

Members, Appointment of, to Paid Offices, 328. O'CoNNELL, The Honorable M.<~.TIRICE CHARLES: Members of Council, Absent, 14. Vide "PRESIDENT." Members of Council, Re-appointment of, 1. Oddfellows' Society, 556. Members having pecuniary interest in a question, Offences against thl' Person Bill, 394•, 489. not to vote, 132, 135. Offences, Coinage, Bill, 394. Members not to speak a second time in Debate, Office, Money Orde1·, 45, 475. 127. Office of Attorney-General, 578, 656. Memorial of N01·thern Squatters, 421. Office of Master of Titles, 676. Messages from the Legislative Council, Trans­ Office1;, Chief, of the "Commodore Perry," 535, mission of, 688. 599. MILES, WrLLU~, Esquire (Mxranoa): Address Officers, Public, engaged in Commercial Transac­ in Reply to Opening Speech, 7.-Registra­ tions, 627. tion of Electors, 58.-Carele~s Use of Fire, 64.-Privilege of Speech on Motion for Ad­ Offices, Appointment of Members to Paid, 328. journment of the House, 85.-Raihvay from Offices, Government, Holidays in, 229. Toowoomba to 'Warwick, 107.-Railway to Opening of Parliament, 1. Oondamine, 154.-Railway between Brisbane Opening Speech, Governor's, 1. and Ipswich, 175.-District Courts, 182.­ Opening Speech, Address in Reply (Assembly), 6. Remittance of Money to Emigration Com­ Opening Speech, Address in Reply (Councii), 3. mi8sioners, 224.-JI.furder at· 'l'oowoomba, 235.-Industrial and Reformatory Schools, Opening Speech, Addresses in Reply, Presentation 255.-Claims against Government, 349.­ of, 10. Agricultural Reserves, 377. _::::-Adjournment Opening of Railway, 390. of the House, 381.-Telegraphic Extension, Opening of Roads, 34, 151, 272. INDEX. 11

Order Office, Money, 45, 475. AssPmbly, 49R.-Impounding Act 1863, 523. Order : Vide "PRESIDENT" and "SPE~RER." -Steam Postal Communication, 54~7.-Pend­ ing the passage of a Bill similar Bill not to Paid Offices, Appointment of Members to, 328. be introduced, 548.-Parliament Buildings, Parliament Buildings, 390, 392, 579, 650. 579, 583, 650.-Crown Lands Laws Amend­ ment Bill, 587.-Resig;.t

tory Schools, 361. - Adjournment of the 1 Brisbane) : Meetings of the House, 11.­ House, 388.-Death of Honorable F. N. Steam Communication, 17.-Uhurch of

Isaac, 392.-Real Property Act (Appoint­ 1 England, 26, 8·4.-Post Office and Money ment of Committee by Ballot necessary), Order Department, 53.- Rtet;istration of 414.-Constitutional Position of Her Majes­ Electors, 59.- Railway fi·om Toowoomba ty's Representative in the Colony, 486. to Warwick, 109.-Report of Committee of -Reference to Proceedings in. LPgislative Elections and Qualifil'lltions on Election for 12 INDEX.

Mitchell, 138.-Railway to Condamine, 161. Relief Bill, Selectors, 636, 651, 681. -Railway between l~risbane and Ipswich, Religion, Bills relating to, when construed Public 171.-District Courts Bill, 182.-Remittance Bills, 31. of Money to Emigration Commissioners, 212, Religion, State-Aid to, 116. 221.-Industrial and Reformatory Schools Remittance of Money to Emigration Commis­ Bill, 254.-Real Property Act Amendment, sioners, 183, 646. 271.-Claims of Central and Northern Dis­ tricts, 288.-Ways and Means, 305.-Council Repeal, Criminal Statutes, Bill, 488. Constitution, 323.-Leichhardt Search Fund, Repeal of Civil Service Act, 521. 332.-Claims Against Government, 350.­ Reply to Opening Speech (Council), 3-(Assem­ Health B-ill, 381.-Adjournment of the bly), 6. House, 38·-L.-Snpply, 4-30.-Constitutional Representative of Her l'.'l:ajesty in the Colony, Position of the Governor, 460.-Mechanics' constitutional position of, 434, 486, 495, 558­ Institute. Spring Hill, 472.-Question of Privi­ Reserves, Agricultural, 37, 85, 365, 411, 548, 633. lege (Publication of Letter), 503.-Proposed Resident at Port Curtis, Claims of the late Gov­ Increase to Certain Salaries, 532. -The ernment, 592. "Commodore Perry," 536.-Hospitals Bill, 539.-Immigrants per "Peter Goddefroy," Resignation of the Attorney-General (Pring), 558. 555. - Oddfellows' Society, 556. - Office Resignation of the President, 591, 617. of Attorney-General, 57R.-Jetty at Sand­ Responsible, Fourth, Minister, 683. gate, 606.-Municipal Institutions Act of Restrictions on Sheep, 540. 1864, 607.-Public Oillc<•rs engaged in Com­ Rev. P. Dunne and Immigration, 386. mercial Transactions, 628.-Agricultural Re­ Rev. Dr. Lang, Gratuity to, 543. serves, 634.-Proposed Increase to Auditor­ Rev. L. H. Rumsey, 624. General's Salary, 639.-AdjuRtment of Ac­ counts withX ew South\Vale·~. 645 .-Appoint­ Richards, W. H., and Co., 354, 682. ment of Attorney-General, 665. Right of Petition, 135. Road, 1\facyborough to Gayndah, 333. Queen's Birthday, Attendance of Speaker on the, Road, Yuella Creek to Roma, 420. 86. Road Votes, 432. Queen's Plate, Gayndah, 536. Roads, Opening of, 34, 151, 272. Queen's Representative, Constitutional Position ROBERTS, The Honorable DANIEL FoLEY, Chair­ of, 434, 486, 495, 558. man of Committees of Legislative Council : Queensland Steam Navigation Company, Subsidy Adjournment of the House, 388.-District to the, 116. Courts, 402, 489.-Real Prop~tory Schools, 146, 254, 359. Sales of Crown Lands, Non-competitive, 378. Registration of Electors Bill, 56, 400. SA.NDEMAN, GoRDON, Esquire (Leichkardt) : Sub­ Regulations, Cotton and Sugar, 526. sidy to the Queensland Steam Navigation INDEX. 13

Company, 130.-Railway between Brisbane Maryborough, 603.-Triennial Parliaments and Ipswich, 177.-Remittance of Money to Bill, 615.-Services of Dr. Lang, 631.­ Emigration Commissioners, 221.-Murder Proposed increase to Auditor-General's at Toowoomba, 234.-Real Property Act Salary, 6il.-Jury Bill, 649.-Appointment Amendment, 270.-Claims of Central and of Attorney-General, 658.-0ffice of l\Iastel!' Northern Districts, 290.-"Ways and Means, of Titles, 677.-Selectors Relief Bill, 681. 310.-Council Co,stitution, 326.-Leichhardt Select Committees : Vide " Committees." Search Fund, 329.-Telegraphic Extension, Selectors in Agricultural Reserves Bill (Question 390.-Proceedings in Committee Rooms of Procedure), 548. (Question of Privilege), 464.-Immigration, Selectors Relief Bill, 636, 651, 681. 491, 502.-Question of Privilege (Publication Separation, Services of Dr. Lang in the cause of, of Letter), 503.-Steam Postal Communica-­ 5t3, 629. tion between Brisbane and Bowen, 525.­ Sericultnre, encouragement of, 151. Proposed Increase to certain Salaries, 531.­ Restrictions on Sheep, 542.-Appointment of Serv.ice, Civil, Act, 521. Attorney-General, 665. SerYices of the Rev. Dr. Lang in the Cause of Sandgate, Jetty at, 605. Separation, 543, 629. Session, Approaching Close of, 579. Savings Banks Act Amendment Bill, 357, 404, 500. Sheep, Restrictions on, 540. School at Ipswich, Governor's Speech at, 415. Ship "Fiery Star," 144. Schools, Industrial and Reformatory, 146, 254, Sitting, days of, 10, ll, 394, 637. 359. SMITII, The Honorable RICHARD J OSEPH: Address Schools, Primary, Inspection of, 508. in Reply to Opening Speech, 3.-Constitution Search for Leichhardt, fund for, 329. of the Council, 14, 87.-Careless Use of Fire, 294.-Jur_y Bill, !!65.-Adjournment of the SECRETAUY, CoLo~rAL : Vide " CoLONIAL SECRE­ TARY." House, 387.-Consolidalion of Criminal L11w, 399.-Registration of Electors, 401.-Real SECRETARY FOR LANDS AND WoRKS, The Honor­ Property Act Amendment, 406, 4·11.­ able ARTIIUR MACALISTER (Ipswich): Meet­ Agricultural Reserves, 413.-0ffences against ings of the House, ll.-Opening of Roads, the Person, 489.-District Courts, 490.­ 34.. -Agricultural Reserves, 37, 85.-Pri­ Constitutional Position of the Governor, 499. vilege of Speech on Motion for Adjourn­ -GoYermnent SaYings Banks, 501.-Crown ment of the House, 85.-Railway from Lands Laws, 551, 586.-Parliament Bnild­ Toowoomba to vVarwick, 93.-Church of ings, 582.-Resignatio;n of the President, England Bill, 135.-Report of Committee 621.-Distillation, 687.-Volunteers (A ppro­ of Elections and Qu:~lifications on Election priation Bill), 692. for Mitchell, 139.-Railway to Condamine, 154·, 160.-Railway between Brisbane and Society, Oddfellows', 556. Ipswich, 170.-Remittance of Monev to Emi­ Speaker, the Salary of, 552. gration Commissioners, 209.-l\fr. Benjamin SPEAKER, The Honorable GILBERT Er,IOT1' (JVide Backhouse, 228.-Mnrder at Toowoomba Bay) : Presentation of Aclclress in Reply to 234.-LegislatiYe Council Bill, 254.-Too~ Opening Speech, ll.-Power to withdraw a woomba Swamps Drainage, 257.-\Yays and Motion, 13.-Clerk of the Legislative Council Means, 313.-Maryborough and Gayndah and Clerk of Parliaments, 25.- Public Bills Road, 334.. -::\Iaryborough \Vater Supply, (Church of England Bill) Bills 1•elating to 335.-Claims against GoYernment, 316.-\V. Religion, 31.-Jl.Iembers out of Order speak­ H. Richards and Co., 356, 357.-Agricul­ ing on presenting Petition, 45.-l:'rivilege of tural Reserves,. 365, 633.-Crown Lands Speech on Motion for Adjournment of the Non-competitive Sales, 378.-Adjournment of House, 85, 86.-Question to PriYate Member, the House, 385.-New Houses of Parliament 93.-Acljournment of the House not to be and Opening of Railway, 390.-Road from moved to rectify an irregularity, 93.-Irregu­ Yuella Creek to Roma, 421.-Memorial of lar Motion for a Grant in Aid of Religion, Northern Squ"tters, 4-22.-Supply, 428.­ ll6.-Member to speak once only in a Road Votes (l\!Iotion for Adjournment), 434. Debate, 127.-Private affairs of ~fembers not -Constitutional Position of the Governor, to be alluded to in Debate, 131.-Mot.ives 458.-Proceedings in Committee Rooms, 464. not to be imputed to Members, 131.-Dis­ -Inspection of Primary Schools, 514.­ allowance of Votes of Members having a Encouragement to Cotton Growers, 526.­ pecuniary interest in Question, 132, 133.­ 0ddfellows' Society, 556.-Bridge over Dray­ l\iembers whose Y otes are challenged to with­ ton Creek, 559.-0laim of the Honorable draw, 135.-Right of Member to present a Louis Hope, 598.-Supply of ·water to Petition, 135.-.Report of Committee of Elec­ 14 INDEX.

tions and Qualifi(Jations on Election for Mit­ Steam Navigation Company, Subsidy to Queens­ chell, 139, 140.-Question of Order (on land, 116. record in Votes and Proceedings), 145, 146, Steam Postal Communication between Brisbane -Order of putting Amendments, 160, 162. and Bowen, 523. -Hypothetical use of improper language STEPHENS, THOJIIAS BLACKET, Esquire (Soutk irreguhtr, 166. -Speaking on Qn<',tion of Brisbane): Question of Order, 146.-Remit­ Adjournment, 2'.!.·1.-Sotto voce remarks, 226. tanee of Money to Emigration Commis­ -Ruliug of Chairman of Committees (simi­ sioners, 223.-Expenditure out of Immigra­ larity of amendments), 231; Introlludion of tion Loans, 258.-""ays and Means, 301.--­ irrele;-ant and personal matter in debate, Adjournment of the House, 385.-Acljust­ 250.-Con.-ersation during Dt•bates, 273.­ ment of Accounts with New South 'Vales, License of Speech, 101, 11·1,, 280, 284, 3•12, 646. 382, 420, 453, 4·54., 455, 456, G30, 680.­ Subsidy to Queensland Steam Navigation Com­ Two-thircls majority, 328. - Mentioning a pany, 116. Member by Name, 3(32.-Motion for Post­ Sugar and Cotton Regulations, 526. ponement of Order of the Day, 404.-Casting Vote of Chairman of Committees, 415,_:__ Summary Ejectment Bill, 425. Reference to Debates of present Seseion, Supply, Committee of, 427. 431, 451.-Use of the Governor's name in Supply, Question of Order, Vote of Chairman, Debate, 458.-Proceedings in Committee 415. Rooms, 465, 466.-0n moYing for a Select Supply of '\Vater to J\Iaryborough, 335, 602. Committee, 469.- Alphabetical Order of Support of Yolunteers, Vote in, 593, 690. Names in Eledion of Members of Select Swamps at Toowoomba, Drainage of, 257. Committees where Votes are equal, 471.­ Question of Privilege (Publication of Lettcr)o 505.-Member to be heard in his place, 506. TAYI,OR, JA31ES, Esquire (Western Downs): Peti­ -Long Speeches, 543.-Refercnce to Pro­ tion from the 'Vanego, 18.-Pa•,toral As;;ess­ ceedings in Committee, 543.-Approaching ment Bill, 19.-Church of England, 29, 75. close of the Session, 579.-Re5olution op­ -Agricultural Reservr~, 43.-Registmtion pos~le, 59±.-Motions -Railway to Condami1w, 166.-Remittance f01~ 1mrpose of ridicule l'eprehensible, 602.­ of 1\foncy to Emigration Commissioners, 222. Chall~nr'e of ~{ember's Y"te, on ground of -Jl.furcler at. Toowoomba, 232 ..-Toowoomba allPg{~cl pecuniary interest, 631, 632, 633.­ Swamps Drainage, 257.-Real :£roperty Act Transmi,sion of l\fl.'ssagcs from the Legisla­ Amendment, 272.-\\'ays and :Mc•ans, 311. tive Council, 688.-Referenre to Legislative -Council Constitution, 326,-Ijeieh!tardt Council, 690.-Acldress to His Excellency Search Fund, 332.-S:wings Banks, 358.­ (Assent to Bills), 693. Healt!t Bill, 380.-Adjournment ofthe House, Speaking on pr0senting a petition, 45. 381.- Late President of United States (Proposed Address of Condolence to 1\frs. Speech, privilege of, 85. Lincoln), 393.-Insolvency Act of 1864, Sp<.>,eh of Governor at Ipswich Grammar School, 404.-Triennial Parliamenh1 404.- Consti­ 415. tutional Positic>n of the Govern01·, 451.­ Sper<>h, Vice- Regal (Opening of Parliament), 1. Proceeclings in Committee Rooms (Question Spec·ch, Vice-Regal (AcldreRs in Reply to), of Privilege), 463.-M.echanics' Institute, (Council), 3, (Assembly), 6. Spring Hill, 473.-PoBt Office and Money Order Department., 485.-Immigration, 49·1. Speech, Vice-Regal, Presentation of Addresses in -Question of Privilege, 506.-Sugar and Reply to, 10. Cotton Regulations, 526.-Proposed Increase Speooh, Vice-Regal (Prorogation of Parliament), to Certain Salaries, 532.-Hospitals Bill, 539. 693. -Restrictions on Sheep, 541.-Salaries of Spring Hill Mechanics' Institute, 472. the President of the Legislative Council and Sq ua~ters, Grant of Land to, 602. the Spt'aker of the Legislative Assembly, Squatters, Memorial of Northern, 421. 552.-Briclge over Drayton Creek, 560.­ Standing Orders Committee, Report of, 13. Distillation Bill, 575.-Claims of the late Government Resident at Port Curtis, 592.­ State-aid to Religion, 116. Claim of the Honorable Louis Hope, 598.­ Statement, Financial, the, 235. Salaries of the Chairman of Committees of Statutes, Criminal, Repeal Bill, 488, the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Steam Communication, Existing and Proposed Assembly, 604.-Triennial Parliaments, 616. Lmes of, 16, 544 669. -Agricultural Reserves, 636.-Acljustment INDEX. 15

of Accounts with New South \Vales, 615. Schools Bill, 254.-Real Property Act -Oi!lce of Master of Titles, 680. Amendment, 263.-0laims of the Central Telegraph Extension to the Gulf of Carpentaria, and Northern Districts, 273.-vVays and 643. Means, 304.-Council Constitlltion, 323.­ Telegraph, l\faryborough to Gayndah, 230. Leichhardt Search Fund, 331.-1\Iaryborough and Gayndah Road, 333.-Maryborollgh Telegraph Extension, 388. \'Vater Supply, 335.-Ulaims against Govern­ Titles, Otlice of Master of, 656, 676. ment, 335.-\V_ H. Rielmrds and Company, Toowoomba, Bench of Magistrates, 20. 35-t, 357,-HealthBill, 381.-Adjournment of Toowoomba and "\Varwick Railway, 93, 148. the House, 383,-Claims against Government Toowoomba, JHmder at, 231, 295. Bill, 387.-Triennial Parliaments Bill, 40"1. Toowoomba Swamps, Drainage of, 257. -Governor's Speech at Grammar School, Ipswich, 415.-:l\Iemorial of Northern Trade Marks Act Amendment, 84. Squatters, 423.-Summary Ejectment Bill, 'l'ransactions, Public Officers engaged in Com­ 426.-Supply, 431,-Constitutional Position mercial, 627. of the Governor, 4"18.-Proceedings in Com­ Transmission of Messages from the Legislative mittee Rooms, 463.-:l\Iechanics' Institute, Council, 688. Spring Hill, 474.-Immigration, 493.-In­ TREASL'RER, The : Vide " COLOXIAL TREASL'RER." spection of Primary Schools, 519.-Proposed Treatment of Immigrants, Improper, 471. Increase to Certain Salaries, 526, 534.­ Triennial Parliaments Dill, 40·1, 609, 636. Queon's Plate, Gayndah, 537.-Hospitals Bill, 539.-Restrictions on Sheep, 5-H.­ United States, late I're.;,ident of (Address of Con­ Gratuityto Rev. Dr. Lang, 54·3,631.-Salaries dolence to l\Irs. Lineoln), 393, 404. of the President of the Legislative Council and the Speaker of Legislative Assembly, Use of Fire, Carelel>s, 62, 294. 553.--Briclgc over Drayton Creek, 560. - Distillation, 571. - Claims of the hte Vice-regal Speech at Opening of Session, 1. Government Resident at Port Cllrtis, 593.­ Vice-regal Speech at Prorogation, 693. Claim of the Honorable Louis Hope, 595.­ Volunteers, Qm••msland, 14. Supply of "\Vate1• to Maryborough, 602. Y olunteers,· Vote in support of, 593, 690. -Salaries of the Chairman of Committees Vote of Chairman e>f Committee~ (Question of of the Legislative Council and of the Legis­ Order), 415. lative Assembly, 605.-Tricnnial Parliaments, 614.-Public Otlicers engaged in Com­ Votes of Members having a pecuniary interest in mercial Transactions, u27.-Agricultural question disallowed, 132. Reserves Act Amendment Bill, 633.-Pro­ "Votes and Proceedings" (Q,u~tion of Order on) posed increase to Auditor-General's Salary, H5. 639.-Acljustment of Accollnts with New Votes, Road, 432. South vVales, 6"15.-Proposed Remittance to Imperial Emigration Commissioners, 647.­ WALSH, "\VILLIA::II HEXRY, Esquire (.~Iw·y­ Appointment of Attorney-General, 657, 667­ borough) : Power of a l\Iember to withdraw -0flice of Master of Titles, 676, 680.-"\V, a Motion, 23.-Chnrch of England, 32, H. Richards and Co., 682. 115.-Agricultural Reserves, 40, 372 -Post "\Yarrego, Petition from the, 18. Office and Money Order Department, 53.­ \Varwick, Railway from Toowoom ba to, 93, 148. Privilege of Speech, on :Motion for Adjourn­ "\Yarwick Rmlway (Appropriation Bill), 690. ment of the House, 85.-Question to Private ' Member, 92.-Railway from Toowoomba to \Vater Supply to ::\1aryborough, 335, 602. vYarwick, 96.-Subsidy to the Queensland i "\VATTS, JoHN, Esquire (Western Downs) : Steam :Navigation Company, 120.-Heport of Address in reply to Opening Speech, G.­ Committee of Elections and Qualifications on Pastoral Asse:;sments, 20. - Agricultural Election for Mitchdl (:Motion for A.djourn­ Reser.-es, 41.-Carele,s Use of Fire, 62.­ ment), 1-10.-Question of Order, 145.­ Church of England Bill, 75.-Railway from Railway to Condaminc, 161.-Railway 'l"oowoomba to "\Varwiek, 102.-Subsidy to between Brisbane and Ipswich, 171.­ the Queensland Steam Navigation Company, District Courts Bill, 182. -Remittance of 116.-Report of Committee of Elections and Money to Emigration Commissioners, 201.­ Qualifications on Election for Mitchell, 142. Immigration Debate, 226.-Holidavs in -Murder at Toowoomba, 223.-Leichhardt Government Offices, 229.-Maryborough and Search Fund, 332.-Claims against Govern­ Gayndah Telegraph, 230.-Murder at Too­ ' ment, 340.-Agricnltural Reserves, 370.­ woomba, 233.-lndustrial aml Reformatory .A.dJOurnment of the HoLLoe, 393.-0on:,titu­ 16 INDEX.

tional Position of the Governor, 445.-Pro­ Bill, 273.-Careless use of Fire, 295.-Indus· ceedings in Committee Rooms (Question of trial and Reformatory Schools, 361.-Con­ Privilege), 465.-Mechanics' Institute, Spring solidation of Criminal Law, 398.-Registra­ Hill, 474.-Question of Privilege, 507.­ tion of Electors, 400.-Real Property Act Hospitals Bill, 540.-0ddfellows' Society, Amendment, 407, 411, 414.-Agricultural 557.-Bridge over Drayton Creek, 561.­ Reserves, 412.-0ffences against the Per­ Distillation Bill, 573.-Claim of the Honor­ son, 489.-0onstitutional Position of the able Louis Hope, 595.-Grunt of Land to Governor, 497.-Cemetcries Bill, 521.­ Squatters, 602.-Agricultural Reserves, 634. Impounding Act Amendment,522.-Sclectors -Adjustment of Accounts with New South in Agricultural Reserves Bill, 548.---,-Crown Wales, 644. Lands Laws, 548, 577, 585.-Real Property '\Vays and Means, Committee of, 235, 297. Act, 577.-Parliament Buildings, 583.­ W. H. Richards and Co., 354, 682. Claims against Government, 588, 589.-Real Property Act, 590.-Resignation of the WrENROLT, ARNOLD, Esquire (Warwick) : Rail­ President, 621.-Selectors' Relief, 636, 651. way from Toowoomba to Warwick, 105.­ -Municipal Institutions 651.-Distillation Railway to Condamine, 163.-Remittance of 654, 687.- Fourth Responsible Minister, Money to Emigration Commissioners, 225.­ 683 -Distillation, 687.-Meeting of Parlia­ Bridge over Drayton Creek, 561.-Triennial ment, 690.-'\V m·wick Railway (Appropriation Parliaments, 613.-Agricultural Reserves, Bill), 690. 636.-Appointment of Attorney-General, 666. '\Vorking of Real Property Act, 414. '\Vithdraw a Motion, Power of Member to, 23. YALDWYN, The Honorable '\V'ILLIAM HENRY: '\Voon, 'l'he Honorable WESTERN: The Clerk of '\V'arwick Railway, 149.-0pening of Roads the Council, 13.-Absent Member, 14.­ Bill, 151. Council Constitution, 90.-0pening of Roads Yuella Creek, Road from Roma to, 420. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY and LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

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VOL. III.

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I. SUBJECTS OF DEBATE IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. II. SUBJECTS OF DEBATE IN THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY. III. LIST OF DIVISIONS. TV. LIST OF THE MEMBERS AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE SESSION. v. ALPHABETICAL. INDEX.

!._:_SUBJECTS OF DEB.ATE IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. 1866, l'AGE. April10. Meeting of Parliament.-Vice-regal Speech.-Hon. W. Landsborough.­ Openiug of Roads Bill.-.Address in reply to Opening Speech 1 11. Presentation of Address in reply to Opening Speech.~.Appointment of Post· master-General,-Business of the Session 40 18. Opening of Roads Bill, 2° .. . 54 25. Inquests of Death Bill, 2° .. . 84 26. Defences of the Colony.-Resumption of Lands under Lease from the Crown. -Railway Contracts.-Leave of Absence 88 May 2. .Animals Slaughtering Bill ... 115 3. Opening of Roads Bill 116 9. Claims against Government Bill, 2°.-Inquests of Death Bil)., 3" 149 16."' Animals Slaughtering Bill ... ·· · 250 17. Carriers BilL-Explanation 253 22. Loan Bill, 1° 258. .23. Sus,pension of" Standing Orders.-The Railways of the Colony.-Loan Bill, 2°.-Cumberland Disease Bill, 3°.-Loan Bill (Message from the Governor) June 13. Port Albany Dues Bill, 2°.-Felons .Apprehension Bill, 2° 21. Temporary Steam Service through Torres' Straits.-The late and present Police Magistrates at Warwick ... .315 28. Railway between Brisbane and Ipswich.-Correspondence relative to Seats in the House...... 42& July 12. Registrars of District Courts Bill, 2°.-.Admiralty Jurisdiction Bill, 2°'­ Waterworks Bill2°.-Immigration - 501 13. Explanation ... 517 17. Financial Arrangements.-Explanation 518 18. Public Business 521 19. Resignation of the Ministry 530 20. Representation of the Government in the CounciL-Suspension of the Stand­ ing Orders.-~Treasury Bills Bill 555 24. Ministerial .Arrangements.-Privileges Act .Amendment Bill 571 25. Defence of the Colony.-Adjournment ... 583. iv. TABLE OF CONTENTS.

1866. PAGE. Sept.19. Ministerial Statement.-Vacancies and Absence.-Privileges BilL-Ministerial Arrangements 621 20. Ministerial Statement 628 25. Breach of Privilege.-Additional Customs Duties Bill .. . 660 26. Question of Privilege.-Treasury Bills Bill.-'rreasury Notes Bill 691 27. Appointment of Members.-'rhe New Houses of Padiament.-LeasingAreas Bill 7H Oct. 2. Breach of Privilege.-Helidon and Ipswich Road Tolls BilL-Officers of Legis­ lative CounciL-Leasing Areas Bill 736 3. Legislative Council Printing (Breach of Privilege) 765 9. Decease of Member.-The Railways of the Colony.-Message from the Legis­ lative Assembly (Discontinuance of Public Works).-Question of Practice (Messages) 794 11. Stamp Duties Bill .. . 842 12. Oyster Fisheries Act.-Arbitration Case with Messrs Peto, Brassey, and Betts. -Civil List Amendment Act of 1862.-Additional Customs Duties Act Amendment Bill . . . 844 16. The Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum.-Appointment of Additional Ministers 852 17. Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum.-Sugar and Coffee Regulations.-Standard Weight for Agri0ultural Produce Bill.-Distillation and Sale of Colonial Brandy Bill 882 18. Distillation BilL-Judgments and Bills of Sale .Amendment BilL-Medical Act Amendment BilL-Railway Lands Compensation Bill.-'-Diseased Animals BilL-Injuries to Property Act Amendment Bill.-Small Debts Recovery BilL-Appropriation Bill 895 23. ;prorogation .. . 906

H.-SUBJECTS OF DEBATE IN THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY. 1866. April10. Opening of Parliament.-Ministerial Explanation.-The Opening Speech.­ Address in reply to the Opening Speech 7 11. Presentation of Address in reply to Opening Speech.-Personal Explanation. -Ministerial Statement ... 45 18. Civil Service Inquiry.-Animals Slaughtering Bill, 2°. ... 55 19.. Brisbane Waterworks.-The Governor's Despatches to the Secretary of State for the Colonies-Claims against Government Bill-Distillation Bill 63 24. Supply of Stores to the Government by Messrs. J. and G. Harris.-Exhibition of Queensland Products in Melbourne and Paris.-Hospitals of the Colony. -Imperial Protection ... 75 25. Statistical Register . . . 87 26. Water Supply for Towns.-Private Meeting of Members on Land Bill­ Explanation.-Crown Lands Sale BilL-Immigration under the Land Order System.-Law of Partnership Bill, 2° ... 95 May 1. The Brisbane Bridge.-Claims against Government Bill, 2°.-Consolidation of Colonial Statutes.-Defences of the Colony 104 3. Pastoral Tenants Relief Bill, 2°.-Felons Apprehension BiJ!, 2°.-Crown Lands Sale BilL-Statistical Returns ... 117 8. Claim of the Honorable Colonel O'Counell.-Small Debts Recovery Bill, 2°. -Standard Weight fo1; Agricultural Produce Bill, 2°.-Port Albany Free Port Bill, 2° 136 9. Ways and Means.-Immigration ... 150· 10. Crown Lauds Sale Bill 175 15. Ways and Means (Resumption of Committee) 214 22. The Clerk of the Assembly and the Staff of the House.-Revision of the Electoral Rolls of Drayton and Toowoomba and Western Downs.-Claims of Daniel Henry Sinclair 259 23. Inquests of Death Bill, 2°.-Health Bill, 2°.-J"oan Bill (Message from the Legislative Council) 293 TABLE OF CONTENTS. v .

. 1866. PAGE, June 19. Railways of the Colony 301 21. Crown Lands Sale Bill (Resumption of Debate)... 328 26. Crown Lands Sale Bill (Resumption of Debate) 365 27. Completion of Railway Lines to Dalby, Warwick, and Westwood.-Diseases prevalent amongst Sheep and Cattle . .. 394 28. Torres' Straits Route 439 29. Immigration (Adjourned Debate).-Sewerage Commissioners Bill, 2" 454 July 3. The Burrum Coal Mine.-Quarantine Laws.-Crown Lands purchased within two miles of Lines of Railway.-Resumption of Runs.-Immigration (Re­ sumpt.ion of Debate on Mr. Walsh's motion)... 464 4. Clerk of Petty Sessions, Toowoomba.-Jury Bill, 2°.-Admiralty Jurisdiction Bill, 2°.-Registrars of District Courts Bill, 2°.-Cumberland Disease Bill, 2o 491 11. Fir.ancial Position of the Colony.-Ministerial Explanation ... 496 12. Public Affairs.-Legal Tender Notes BilL-The Financial Condition of the Colony 507 13. Financial Crisis 517 17. The Financial Crisis 519 18. Ministerial Explanation 522 19. Alleged Illegal Appropriation.-Privilege.-Resignation of the Ministry 531 20. Ministerial Arrangements.-Change of Ministry.-Suspension of Standing Orders.-Issue of Treasury Bills.-Explanations 561 2-4. Message from the Governor (Assent to Bills).-1'he New Ministry.-Adjourn· ment 572 Sept. 18. Ministerial StatemPnt.-Financial Statement 586 19. Amendment of Tariff Resolutions.-Snspension of the Standing Orders 623 20. Additional Treasury Bills Bill.-Treasury Notes Bill ... 633 21. Stamp Duties Bill .. . 651 25. Hospitals Committee.-Parliamentary Rep-resentation.-Leasing Areas Bill... 664 26. Right of Petition (Stafford H. Webb).-Leasing Areas Bill (Adjourned Debate) 697 27.-Immigration Act.-Leasing Areas Bill ... 721 28.-Stafford H. Webb.-Estimates for 1867 ... 723 Oct. 2. Proposed Abolition of District Courts.-Expenditure on Public Works 741 3. Governor's Salary Reduction B\11, 1°.-Export Duty on Woql, Tallow, and Hides.-Medical Act of 1861 Amendment Bill.-Civil Service Act Repeal Bill 766 5. Parliamentary Practice (Recall of Bill from Legislative Council) 792 9. Privilege (Telegram of Election).-Civ.il Service Act Repeal Bill (Adjourned Debate) -:-Supply · 807 10. Mineral Prospectors' Rights.-The Unemployed.-New Military Barracks.­ Gold Export Duty Act Repeal.-Stamp Duties.-Telegraphic Extension (Rockhampton to Keppel Bay).-The Improvement of the Navigation of the Rivers Brisbane and Bremer 811 11. Immigration.-Additional Customs Duties Act of 1866 Amendment Bill (Suspension of Standing Orders) 842 12 Supply (Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly . .. 852 16. New Houses of Parliament.-Appropriation Bill.-Distillation for Wine Bill. -Proposed Concessions to Company for Construction of Railway from Ipswich to Brisbane.-The Toowoomba Corporation.-Grant in .Aid of the Acclimatization Society.-Officers of the Legislative Assembly.-'roo· woomba and Warwick Railway.-"Hansard."-Lessees under the Sugar Regulations and the Leasing Act of 1866.-Carriers BilL-Distillation Bill. -Diseased Animals Bill... 860 17. Breach of Privilege.-Immigration.-Medical Act Amendment Bill.-Judg· ments and Bills of Sale Bill-Intestates Real Estat,e BilL-Friendly Societies Enabling BilL-Injuries to Property Act Amendment Bill 885 18. The Warwick Railway (Motion for Adjournment).-Distillation Bill.-The iJose of the Session 900 vi. TABLE OF CONTENTS.

III.-LIST OF DIVISIONS. Legislative Council. PAGE, Resumption of Lands under Lease from the Crown-on motion of 1'he Iron· orable H. B. Fitz that certain Resolutions be agreed to 89 Animals Slaughtering Biil-ou the motion of The Honorable H. B. Fitz that the Bill be read this day six months 00. 253 Treasury Bills Bill-on the motion of The Honorable the Postmaster-General for Second Reading of 00, 697 New Houses of Parliament-on the motion of The Honorable E. I. C. Browne for suspension of works 720 .Additional Customs Duties .A.ct Amendment Bill-on the motion of The Iron· orable W. Hobbs that the Bill be read this day six months 851 .Additional Customs Duties Act Amendment Bill-on the motion of The Iron· orable the Postmaster-General for the Committal of the Bill 852 Legislative .Assembly. Brisbane Waterworks-on the motion of the Secretary for Lands and Works for the Second Reading 74 Defences of the Colony-on the motion of the Secretary for Lands and Works for the appointment of a Joint Select Committee lUi Claim of Captain Sinclair-on Mr. Dalrymple's motion for recognition by the House · 26'7 Railways of the Colony-on the motion of the Honorable R. G. W. Herbert that the previous question be put 315 The Burrum Coal Mine-on Dr. Challinor's motion for a Select Committee to inquire into and report upon petition in reference to 474 Quarantine Laws-on Mr. Walsh's motion for Select Committee to inquire into 47& Lid valorem Duty-on amendments by Mr. Pugh and Mr. Stephens to reduce 620 Leasing Areas Bill-on the motion of the Secretary for Lands that the Bill be read a third time 792 Proposed Abolition of District Courts-on Mr. Groom's motion i:t) reference to 745 Expenditure on Public Works-on Mr. Pugh's motion that the resolutions be put seriatim 76(). Expenditure on Public W orks-<:>n second and third resolutions 76(). Governor's Salary ·Reduction Bill-on Mr. Pahner's motion that the Bill be read a second time this day six months 770 Export Duty on Wool, Tallow, an

IV.-LIST OF MEMBERS AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE SESSION. Tml MINISTRY. Premier and Secretary for Lands and Works-The Honorable ARTHUR MACALISTER. (Ipswick.) Colonial Secretary-The Honorable RoBERT RAMSAY MACKENZIE. (Burnett.) Colonial Treasur~r-The Honorable JoSHUA PETER BELL. (West Moreton.) Attorney-General-The Honorable CHARLES LILLEY. (Fortitude Valley.) Postmaster-General-(Council)-The Honorable JoHN DouGLAS. TABLE OF CONTENTS. vii.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. The President-The Honorable JYIAURICE CHARLES O'CoNNELL. List of Members. The Honorable FRANCIS EDWARD BIGGE. The Honorable JoHN BRAMSTON. The Honorable EYLES lRWIN CAULFEILD BROWNE. The Honorable JOHN DOUGLAS. The Honorable HENRY BATES FITZ. The Houorable JAMES GIBBON. The Honorable ST. GEORGE RICHARD GORE. The Honorable GEORGE HARRIS. The Honorable WILLIAM HoBBS. The Honorable Lours HOPE. The Honorable JOHN McCoNNEL. The Honorable JOHN FREDERICK McDoUGALL. The Honorable JOHN PANTON. The Honorable 1'HOMAS LoDGE MURRAY PRIOR. The Honorable DANIEL FoLEY RoBERTS. The Honorable ·RICHARD J OSE!'H SMITH. The Honorable WILLIAM DUCKETT WHITE. The Honorable WESTERN WooD. The Honorable WILLIAM HENRY YALDWYN.

LEGISLATIVE AsSEMBLY. The Speaker-The Honorable GILBERT ELIOTT (Wide Bay). List of Members. The Honorable JosHUA PETER BELL, Colonial Treasurer (West Moreton). WILJ,IAM BROOKES, Esquire (Brisbane). HENRY CHALLINOR, Esquire (Ipswich). CHARLES COXEN, Esquire, Chairman of Committees (Northern Downs). , Esquire (West Moreton). , Esquire (East Moreton). GEORGE ELPHINSTONE DALRYMPLE, Esquire (Kennedy). SYDNEY BEAVAN DAVIS, Esquire (Olermont). GEORGE EDMONDSTONE, Esquire lEast Moreton). CHARLES FITZSIMMONS, Esquire (Rockhampton). FREDERIOK AuGUSTUS FoRBES, Esquire (War1·ego). WILLIAM HENRY GROOM, Esquire (Drayton and Toowoomba). CHARLES ROBERT HALY, Esquire (Burnett). THEODORE HARDEN, Esquire (Mitchell). The Honorable RoBERT GEORGE WYNDHAM HERBERT, Esquire (West Moreton). The Honorable CHARLES LILLEY, Eoquire, Attorney-General (Fortitude Valley). 1'he Honorable ARTHUR MACALISTER, Esquire, S~Jietary for !'ands and Works (Ipswich). The Honorable ROBERT RAMSAY MACKENZIE, Esgmre, Colornal Secretary (Burnett). JoHN DoNALD McLEAN, Esquire (Eastern Downs). WILLIAM MILES, Esquire (Maranoa). ARTHUR HUNTER PALMER, Esquire (Port Ourtis). RATCLIFFE PRING, Esquire (Ipswieh). THEOPHILUS PARSONS PUGH, Esquire (Brisbane). , Esquire (Brisbane). EDMUND MOLYNEUX ROYDS, Esquire (Leichhardt). GoRDON SANDEMAN, Esquire (Leiehhardt). THOMAS BLACKET STEPRENS, Esquire (South Brisbane). JAMES TAYLOR, Esquire (Western Downs). WrLLIAM HENRY WALSH, Esquire (Maryborough). JoHN WATTS, Esquire (Western Downs). ARNOLD WIENHOLT, Esquire (Warwick). ALPHABETICAL INDEX

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Abolition of District Courts, Proposed, 7 41. Appointment of Attorney-General, 572. Absence, Leave of, 95, 621. Appointment of Colonial Secretary, 572. Absolute majority of Council necessary to enter­ Appointment of Executive Councillors, 557, 568, tain Question of Suspension of Standing 572. Orders, 556.• · Appointment of New Ministry, 572. Acclimatization Society, Grant in aid of, 865. Appointment of Members, 717. Additional Customs Duties, 661, 843, 848. Appointment of Postmaster-General, 40, 571. Additional Ministers, Appointment of, 853. Apprehension of Felons, 132, 300. Additional Treasury Bills, 633. A pproprin,tion, Alleged Illeg!tl, 531. Address of Assembly in reply to Opening Speech, Appropriation Bill, 860, 899. 8. Arbitration Case, Railway, 846. Address of Council in reply to Opening Speech, Areas, Leasing, Bill, 678, 701, 720, 721, 739. 2. Arrangements, Financial, 518. Add!tesses in reply to Opening Speech, Presenta­ Arrangements, Ministerial, 561, 571, 572, 622. tion of, 40, 45. Assembly, Clerk and Staff of the, 259, 869. Address to Governor on termination of Session, Assembly, Members of, go to Council Chamber, 1. 906. Assembly, Members of, leave the House, 565. Adjournment of Debate, Motions for, 101, 116, 175, 214, 365, 682, 691, 792. Assembly, Vacant Seats in, 572. Adjournment of the House, Motions for, 50, 75, Assent to Bills, 293, 296, 572. 95, 2\!3, 297, 323, 498, 5(17, 519, 521, 530, Assent to Loan Bill questioned, 293, 296. 531, 534, 563, 572, 584, 590, 847, 852, 863, Asylum, W oogaroo Lunatic, 852, 882. 889, 900. Attorney-General, Appointment of, 572. Admiralty Jurisdiction Bill, 494, 502, 572. ATTORNEY-GENERAL, The Houorable CHARLES Ad Valorem Duty, Division~ in reference to, 620, LILLEY (Fortitude Valley) : Address in reply 623. to Opening Speech, 36.-Civil ServiceInquiry, Affairs, Public, 507. 57.-Animals Slaughtering Bill, 61, 63.­ Agent-General for Emigration, 158, 487. Brisbane Waterworks Bill, 69.-Law of Partnership Bill, 102. - Claims against Agricultural Produce, Standard Weight for, 143, Government Bill, 106, 109.-Consolidation 884. of Colonial Statutes, 106, 109.-Felons Aid to Acclimatization Society, 865. Apprehension Bill, 132.-Small Debts Reco­ Albany, Port, 147,_299. very Bill, 14·2.-Standard Weight for Agri­ Alleged Illegal Appropriation, 531. cultural Produce Bill, 145.-Port Albany Amendment 'Lapsed for want of a Seconder, 423. :Free Port Bill, 148.-Revision of Electoral Amendment not allowed to be put, 394. Rolls for Drayton and Toowoomba and Western Downs, 264.-Inquests of Death Amendment, only one to be entertained at a time, Bill, 293.-Completion of Railway Lines to 97, 437. Dalby, Wai·wick, and Westwood, 407.­ Animals, Diseased, Bill, 881, 899. Immigration under Land Order System, 459. Animals Slaughtering Bill, 61, 115, 250. -Burrum Coal Mine, 471.-Jury Bill, 492, Appointment of Additional Ministers, 853. -Admiralty Jurisdiction Bill, 494.-Regis­ 2 INDEX.

trars of District Comts Bill, 495.-Financial "Enabling, 894.-Injuries to Property Act Condition of the Colony, 511.-Proposed Amendment, 895, 899.-Railway Land Com· Abolition of District Courts, 743.-Telegram pensation, 899.-Diseased Animals, 899. of Election, 808.-·-New Military Barracks, Bills passing through all stages in one day, 534, 831.-Toowoomba and Warwick Railway, 556, 561, 661, 664, 697. . 874.-Judgments and Bills of Sale Bill, 892. Bills presented to assert the Privileges of Parlia­ -Intestates Real Estate Bill, 893.-Friendly ment; 2, 7. Societies Enabling Bill, 894.-Injuries to Property Act Amendment Bill, 895.-Distil­ Bills, Treasury, 560. lation Bill, 903. Black Rod, Usher of, Leave of Absence to, 621. Audit Act, Alleged Breach of the, 531. BRAMSTON, The Honorable JOHN: Appointment of Postmaster-General, 44. -Inquests of Death Bill, 86.-Resumption of Lands under Ballot, 61, 82, 99, 261. Lease from the Crown, 91.-Claims against Barracks, New Military, 825. Government Bill, 150.-Inquests of Death BELL, The HonorableJOSHUA PETER (West More­ Bill, 150; Animals Slaughtering Bill, 253.­ ton): (Vide "COLONIAL TREASURER").­ Railways of the Colony, 269.-Loan Bill, Adjournment, 573, 579. (Vide "SECRETARY 288. - Cumberland Disease Bill, 291. ­ FOR PUBLIC LANDS" for remainder.) Practice as to giving assent to Bills, 293.­ BIGGE, The Honorable FRANOIS EDWARD: Cum­ Temporory Steam· ServiGe through Torres' berland Disease Bill, 292.-Railway between Straits, 320.-Railway between Brisbane and Brisbane and Ipswich, 436.-Sugar and Ipswich, 435.-Registi·ars 6£ District Courts Coffee Regulations, 883.-Distillation Bill, Bill, 501.-Adniiralty Jnrisdiction ·Bill, 502: 895. -Immigration under Land Order System, Bill, Loan, Assent to, questioned, 293, 296. 506. - Representation of the Government Bill, Recall of, from 'Legislative Council, 792. in the Council, 555. -Suspension of the Standing Orders, 556, 559.-Treasury Bills Bills, Assent to, 293, 296, 572. Bill, 560. Bills of Sale and Judgment Bill, 892, 896. Bramston, the Honorable John, Leave of absence Bills: Opening of Roads, 2, 54, 116.-Presentation to, 621. .of Bills to assert Privileges of Parliament, 2, 7. -Animals Slaughtering, 61, 115, 250.-Bris­ Brandy, Colonial. Distillation and Sale of, 885. bane Waterworks, 63, 502, 572.- Claims Breach of Privilege, 660, 691, 736, 765, 885~ against Government, 74, 105, 149, 299.-Dis­ Bremer and Brisbane Rivers, Improvement of tillation, 74, 880, 885, 895, 900.-Inquests of Navigation of, 839. Death, 84, 150, 293.-Crown Lands Sale, 97, Bridge, Brisbane, 104. 134, 175, 328, 498.-Law of Partnership, 102. Brisbane and Bremer Rivers, Impr;vement .of -Pastoral Tenants Relief, 117.-Felons Ap· Navigation of, 839. prehension, 132, 300.-Small Debts Recovery, Brisbane and Ip'l.cwich Railway, 428, 861. 140, 899.-Standard Weight for Agricultural Brisbane Bridge, 104. Produce, 143, 884.-Port Albany Free Port, 147, 299.-Carriers, 253, 879.-Loan, 258, Bri~bane Waterworks Bill, 63, 502, 572. 269, 293, 29{!.-CumberlandDisease, 291, 495. BROOKES, WILLIAM, Esquire (North Brisbane) : -Health, 294.-Sewerage Commissioners, Address in repl:y to Opening Speech, 27.­ 462.-Jury, 492.-Admiralty Jurisdiction, Brisbane Waterworks Bill, 72.-Supply of 494, 502, 572.-Registrars of District Courts, Government Stores by the Messrs. J. and G. 495, 501, 572.-Legal Tender Notes, 507.­ Harris, 75, 77.-Imperial Protection of the Treasury Bills, 560,568, 572.-Privileges,621. Colony, 83.-Law of Partnership Bill, 104.­ - Additional Treasury Bills, 633, 695. ­ Brisbane Bridge, 104.-Claim of the Hon. Treasury Notes, 645, 697.-Stamp Duties, Colonel O'Connell, 138.-Immigration, 175. 651, 792, 842.-Additional Cu&toms Duties, -Ways and Means, 248.-Assent to Loan 661, 843, 848.-Leasing Areas, 678, 701, Bill, 299.-Resumption .of Runs, 481.­ 720, 721, 739.-Helidon and Ipswich Road Financial Condition of the Colony, 510.­ 'l'olls, 737.-Proposed Reduction of Gov­ Resignation of the Ministry,,.,.535, 547.­ ernor's Salary, 766.-Medical Act of 1861 Adjournment, 574.- Financial Statement, 607 · Amendment, 786, 890, 896.-Civil Service Act -A.d Valorem Duty, 620, 623.-Stamp Repeal, 787, 809.-0yster Fisheries, 844.­ Duties Bill, 655, 837.-Leasing Areas Bill, GoldExpOI•t Duty Act Repeal, 834.-Appro­ 686, 722.- Estimates for 1867, 729;­ priation, 860, 899.-Diseased Animals, 881.­ Expenditure on Public Works, 752.-Pro­ J udgments and Bills of Sale, 892, 896.-Intes­ posed Reduction of Governor's Salary, 770. tate Real Estate, 892.-·Friendly Societies -Export Duty on Wool, Tallow, and Hides, INDEX. 3

774.-Stamp Duties Bill, 792, 837.-Recall of and Warwick Railway, 875.-JJessees undet• Bill from Legislative Council, 792.-The Sugar Regulations, 879.-Carriers Bill, 880. Unemployed, 814.-Gold Export Duty Act '-Breach of Privilege, 887.-Medical Act Repeal, 834.-Appropriation Bill, 861.­ Amendment Bill, 890.-Judgments and Bills Brisbane and Ipswich Railway, 862.­ of Sale Bill, 892.-Intestates Real Estate Acclimatization Society, Grant to, 867.­ Bill, 894.-Distillation Bill, 903. Toowoomba and Warwick Railway, 873.­ CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES: (Vide "CoXEN.") Breach of Privilege, 888.-Immigration, 889. -Distillation Bill, 903. Change of Ministry, 568. Civil List Amendment Act of 18fi2, 847. BROWNE, The Honorable EYLES IRWIN CAUL· FEILD : Address in reply to Opening Speech, Civil Service Act Repeal Bill, 787, 80.9. 7.-Appointment of Postmaster-General, 42· Civil Service Inquiry, 55. -Inquests of Death Bill, 85. -Railway Claims against Government Bill, 74,105,149,299. Contracts, 94.-Animals Slaughtering Bill, Claim of Henry Daniel Sinclair, 266. 116, 252.-Railways of the Colony, 269.­ Claim of the Honorable Colonel O'Connell, 136. Loan Bill, 283.-Railway between Brisbane Clerk of the Assembly and Staff of the House, and Ipswich, 434.-Privileges Bill, 622.­ 259. Question of Privilege, 693.-New Houses of Parliament, 717.-Railways of the Colony, Clerk of PettY,: Sessions at Toowoomba, 491. SOL-Discontinuance of Public Works, 805. Close of the Session, 907. -Appointment of Additional Ministers, 859. Coal Mine; Burrum, 464. -Judgments and Bills of Sale, 896. Coffee and Sugar Regulations, 877, 882. Burrum Coal Mine, 464. Colonel O'Connell, Claim of, 136. Business of the Session, 45. Colonial Brandy, Distillation and Sale of, 885. Busin~ss, Public, 521. Colonial Defenee, 88, 109, 583. Colonial Finance, 496, 508. Carriers Bill, 253, 879. Colonial Railways, 267, 301, 795. CJlttle and Sheep, Diseases in, 416. Colonial Secretary, Appointment of, 572. CIIALLINOR, HENRY, Esquire (Ipswich) : Address CoLONIAL SECRETARY, The Honorable RoBERT @:1 reply to Opening Speech, 34.-Ministerial RAMSAY MACKENZIE (Burnett) : Address in Statement, 53.-Animals Slaughtering Bill, reply to Opening Speech, 33.-Civil Service 63. -Consolidation of Colonial Statutes, 109. Inquiry, 55, 61.-Supply of Government -Pastoral Tenants Relief Bill, 125.-Claim Stores by Messrs. J. and G. Harris, .75, 77.­ of the Hon. Colonel O'Connell, 138.-Small Hospitals of the Colony, 81.-" Statistical Debts Recovery Bill, 142.-Port Albany Register," 87.-Crown Lands Sale Bill, 98, Free Port Bill, 148.-Ways and Means, 230. 196.-Immigration under the Land Order -Railways of the Colony, 305.-Crown System, 99, 101, 454, 459, 461, 462.-Statis· Lands Sale Bill, 333.-Cotnpletion of Rail­ tical Returns, 136.-Claim of the Ho.norable way Lines to Dalby, Warwick, and W estwood, Colonel O'Connell, 137.-Immigration under 412.-Diseases in Cattle and Sheep, 426.­ Agent-General unsatisfactory, 166.-Claim of Burrum Coal Mine, 464, 467.-Resumption Henry. Daniel Sinclair, 267.-Health Bill, of Runs, 485.-Immigration under Agent­ 294.-Diseases in Cattle and Sheep, 420.­ General unsatisfactory, 489.-Jury Bill, 494. Sewerage Commissioners Bill, 462.-Quaran­ -Ministerial Explanation, 499.-Adjourn­ tine Laws, 476.-Resumption of Runs, 482. ment, 578, 581.-Ministerial Statement, 587. -Clerk of Petty Sessions at Toowoomba, .:_Financial Statement, 612.-Amendment of 492.-Resignation of the Ministry, 534, 538 . Tariff, 627.-Additional Treasury Bills Bill, (Vide "MACKENZIE" for remainder.) 639.- Treasury Notes Bill, 650.-Stamp CoLONIAL SECRETARY, The Honorable ARTIIUR Duties Bill, 657.-Hospitals Committee, 670. MACALISTER (Ipswiak) : Ministerial State· -Parliamentary Representation, 677.-Leas­ ment, 586.-Financial Statement, 617.­ ing Areas Bill, 682, 722.-Right of Petition, Amendment of Tariff, 624. - Additional 700.-Telegram of Election, 808.-Rights of Treasury Bills Bill, 638.-Hospitals Corn· Mineral Prospectors, 811.-The Unemployed, mittee, 668.-Parliamentary Representation, 818.-New Military Barracks, 829.-Gold 675.-Leasing Areas Bill, 678, 721.-Right Export Duty Act Repeal, 836.-Additional ofPetition, 699.-Stafford H. Webb, 723.­ Customs Duties Act Amendment Bill, 844.­ Immigration Act, 721.-Estimates for 1867, Supply, 852.-New Houses of Parliament, 723.-Proposed Reduction of Governor's 860.-Appropriation Bill, 860.-Acclimatiza· Salary, 766.-Civil Service Act Repeal Bill, tion Society, Grant to, 866.-Toowoomba ., 789.-Recall of Bill from Legislative Council, 4 INDEX.

793, 902-Telegram of Election, 807.­ 99, 134.-Defence of the Colony, 88, 109.­ Supply, 810, 852.-New Military Barracks, 0laim of the Honorable Colonel O'Connell, 825.-Telegraphic lcxtensionfrom Rockhamp­ 136.-Railways of the Colony, 267, 301.­ ton to Keppel Bay, 838.-Navigation of Bris­ Financial Condition of the Colony, 508, 517, bane and Bremer Rivers, 840.-Immigration, 519.-Hospitals, 664. 843. -Appropriation Bill, 860.-Brisbaneand Communication between the Governor and the Ipswich Railway, 862. - Toowoomba Cor­ other Branches of the Legislatnre, 522. poration, 864. - AccliJ:p.atization Society, Communication, Mail, vid Torres' Straits, 315, ~· Grant in aid of, 866.-Hansard, 876.­ 439. Lessees under Sugar :Jtegnlations, 877.­ Carriers Bill, 8RO.-Breach of Privilege, 886. Company for construction of Railway from Bris­ -Warwick Railway, 900.-Distillation Bill. bane to Ipswich, proposed concessions to a, 902.-0lose of the Session, 905. 86i. Compensation for Railway Lands, 899. Colonial Statutes Consolidation, 106. Completion of Railway Lines to Dalby, Warwick, Colonial Treasurer, Appointment of, 572. and W estwood, 384. CoLONIAL T.REASURER, The Hono:rable Josm:rA Concessions to Company for Railway from Bris· PETER BELL (West Moreton): Address in bane to Ipswich, Proposed, 861. reply to Opening Speech, 25, 37.-Personal Consolidation of Colonial Statutes, 106. Explanation, 45. - Brisbane Waterworks Constitutional Difference between the Governor Bill, 72.-Water Supply to Towns, 95.-De­ and his Responsible Advisers, 519, 522. fence of the Colony, 111.-Pastoral Tenants Relief Bill, 123.-Stan:lard Weight for Agri­ Contracts, Railway, 92. cultural Produce Bill, 144.-Port Albany.Free Construction of Railway from Brisbane to Ipswich, Port Bill, 147.-Ways and Means, 150.­ 861. Way• and Means (Financial Statement), 151, Corporation of Toowoomba, 863. 245, 250.-Completion of Railway Lines to Correspondence between the Governor and his Dalby, Warwick, and Westwood, 400.­ Responsible Advisers, 522. Diseases in Cattle and Sheep, 425.-Torres' Correspondence relative to Seats in the Council, Straits Route, 444.- Cnmberland Disease 437. Bill, 495.-Financial Position of the Colony, Council, Officers of the, 737. 596.-Legal Tender Notes Bill, 507.-Finan­ cial Condition of the Colony, 508, 514.­ Conncil Printing, 660, 691, 736, 765. Ministerial Explanation, 529.-Alleged Illegal Council, Recall of Bill from, 792. Appropriation, 531. - Resignation of the Council, Representation of the Government in the, Ministry, 535, 536. (Vide "BELL" and 555. " SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC LANDS " for re-. Council, Sitting Days of the, 45, 531. mainder.f Courts, District, Proposed Abolition of, 741. CoLONIAL TREASURER, The Honorable JOHN Courts, Registrars of District, 495, 501, 572. DONALD MoLEAN (Eastern Downs) : Finan­ CoXEN, CHARLES, Esquire (Northern Downs) : cial Statement, 594.-Amendment of Tariff', Immigration under the Land Order System, 623. -Suspension of Standing Orders, 102.- Pastoral 'l'enants Relief Bill, 120.­ 627.-Additional Treasury Bills Bill, 633. Standard Weight for Agricultural Produce -Treasury Notes Bill, 645.-Stamp Duties Bill, 146.-Clerk of the Assemblyand Staff' Bill, 651, 792.-Expenditure on Public of the House, 260. - Health Bill, 296. ­ Works, 757.-Export Duty on Wool, Tallow, Crown Lands Sale Bill, 378.-l<'inancial Con· and Hides, 773.-Gold Export Duty Act dition of the Colony, 511.-Treasury Notes Repeal, 834.-Additional Customs Duties Act Amendment Bill, 843.-Appropriation Bill, 649.-Leasing Areas Bill, 711.-Esti· mates for 1867, 735.-Proposed Abolition of Bill, 860.-Toowoomba and Warwick Rail­ way, 873.-Lessees under Sugar Regnhttions, District Courts, 744.-Medical Act of 1861 Amendment Bill, 787.~'l'he Unemployed, 878. 823.- Lessees under Sugar Regulations, 877. Colonies, Secretary for the, Governor's Despat~hes -Intestates Real Estate Bill, 894. to, 74. CRIBE, BENJAMIN, Esqnire (West Moreton) : Commissioners of Sewerage Bill, 462. Burrum Coal Mine, 469.-Adjournment, 582. Committee discharged, 134. -Ministerial Statement, 594.-Additional Committees of the Whole House, 150, 214, 572. Treasury Bills Bill, 641.-Expenditure on Committees, Select : Address in reply to Opening Public Works, 755.-Proposed reduction of SpeeQh, 3, 8.-0ivil Service, 55.-Hospitals of Governor's Salary, 770.-Medical Act of the Colony, 79, 664.-Crown Lands Sale Bill, 1861 Amendment Bill, 787.-Navigation of INDEX. 5

Brisbane and Bremer Rivers, 839.-Supply, O'Connell, 139.-Claim of Henry Daniel 852.-Carriers Bill, 880.-Breach of Privi­ Sinclair,. 266.-Completion of Railway Lines lege,.886.-Intestates Real Estates Bill, 894. to Dalby, Warwick, and Westwood, 399.­ CRIBB, ROBERT, Esquire (East Moreton) : Torres' Straits Route, 445.-Crown Lands .Address in Reply to Opening Speech, 12.­ purchased within two miles of Railway, 478 . Brisbane Waterworks Bill, 68.-Crown -Resumption of Runs, 479, 487.-Minis­ Lands Sale Bill, 97, 214, 328.-Law of terial Explanation, 498.-Financial Condition Partnership Bill, 103.-Brisban~ Bridge, 104, of the Colony, 517.-Explanation, 571. 105.-Consolidation of the Colonial Statutes, DAVIS SYDNEY BEAVAN, Esquire (Clermont) : 108.-Defence of the Colony,.112.-Pastoral Crown Lands Sale Bill, 385.-Torres' Straits Tenants Relief Bill, 120.-Claim of the Route, 451.-Immigration under Land Order Honorable Colonel O'Connell, 138.-Small · System, 461. Debts Recovery Bill, 141.-Standard vVeight Days of Sitting of Council, 45, 531. for Agricultural Produce Bill, 144.-Ways Death, Inquests of, 84, 150, 293. and Means, 249.-Health Bill, 296.-Rail­ ways of the Colony, 304.-Previous Ques­ Debate, Irregular, 97, 474. tion, 312.-Burrum Coal Mine, 467.­ Debates, Adjournment of, 101, 116, 175, 214,365, Ministerial Explanation, 500. -Alleged 682, 792. . Illegal Appropriation, 533.-Resignation of Debates of one branch of the Legislature not to the Ministry, 535, 538.-Adjournment, 574, be referred to in the other, 272, 297. 579.-Ministerial Statement, 592.-Financial Debts, Recovery of Small, 140, 899. Statement, 616.-.Amendment of Tariff reso­ Decease of Member, 794. lutions, 624.-.Additional Treasury Bills Bill, Defence of the Colony, 88, 109, 583. 641.-Treasury Notes Bill, 647.-Stamp Despatches to the Secretary for the Colonies, Duties Bill, 652.-Leasing Areas Bill, 715, 721.-Estimates for 1867, 728.-Proposed 74. Abolition of District Courts, 745.-Expen­ Discharged from the Paper, Orders, 134, 622. diture of Public Works, 751.-Export Duty Discontinuance of Public Works, 804. on Wool, Tallow, a.nd Hides, 774.-Medical Discoverer of Port Denison, 266. Act Amendment, 787.-Civil Se~ce Act Discussion, Irregular, not recorded, 97. Repeal Bill, 791. - Explanation, 792. ­ Disease, Cumberland, Bill, 291, 495. Stamp Duties Bill, 792. - Telegram of Diseased Animals Bill, 881, 899. Election, 809.-Supply, 810.-Rights of Mineral Prospectors, 812.-The Unemployed, Diseases prevalent among Cattle and Sheep, 416. 821.-New Military Barracks, 825.-Gold Disorderly Statements, 517. Export Duty Act Repeal, 836.-Addjtional Distillation Bill, 7 4, 861, 880, 895, 900. Customs Duties Act Amendment Bill, 844. District Courts, proposed abolition of, 741. -Appropriation Bill, 861.-Brisbane and Distillation and Sale of Colonial Brandy, 885. Ipswich Railway, 861.-Breach of Privilege, District Courts Registrars, 495, 501, 572. 887.-Judgments and Bills of Sale Bill, 892. -Intestate Real Estate Bill, 892.-Distilla­ Divisions : Brisbane Waterworks Bill, 74.­ tion Bill, 904. Resumption of Lands under Lease from the Crown, 92.-Defence of the Colony, 115.­ Crisis, Financial, 517, 519. Animals Slaughtering Bill, 253.-Claim of Crown Lands, purchase of, within two miles of Henry D~j;niel Sinclair, 267.-Previous Ques­ lines of Railway, 478. tion (Railways of the Colony), 315.­ Crown Lands Sale Bill, 97, 134, 175, 328, 498. Whether Dr. Challinor sliould have a Crown Lands under Lease, Resumption of, 89, second reply in a Debate, 474.-Burrum 479. Coal Mine, 474.-Quarantine Laws, 478.­ Cumberland Disease Bill, 291, 495. Ad valorem Duty, 620.-Treasury Bills Bill, Customs Duties, 620, 623, 661, 843, 848. 697.-New Houses of Parliament, 720.­ Leasing Areas Bill, 722.-Proposed abolition of District Courts, 745.-Expenditure on Dalby Railway, 394. Public Works, 765.-Governor's Salary DALRYMPLE, GEORGE ELPTIINSTONE, Esquire Reduction Bill, 770.-Export Duty on Wool, (Kennedy) : .Civil Service Inquiry, 59.­ Tallow, and Hides, 785.-Mineral Pros­ Explanatioll-newspaper report of private pectors' Rights, 813.-New ·Military Bar­ meeting of Mewbers on land laws, 95.­ racks, 834.-Gold Export Duty, 837.­ Crown Lands Sale Bill, 98, 200.-Pastoral .Additional Customs ·Duties, 851.-Acclima­ Tenants Relief Bill, 119.-Statistical Returns, tization Society, 869.-Medical Act .Amend­ 136.-Claim of the Honorable Colonel ment Bill, 899. 5T 6 INDEX.

DovGLAS, The Honorable JOJIN: (JYide "PosT­ to Dalby, Warwick, and Westwood, 404.­ MASTER-GENERAL"). Suspension of Standing • Diseases prevaient among Cattle and Sheep, Orders, 556.-Appointment of Executive 422.-'l'orres' Straits'Route, 450.-Burrum Councillors, 560.-Defence of the Colony, Coal Mine, 467.-Resumption of Runs, 483.­ 583. Financial Condition of the Colony, 516.­ Dray ton and Toowoomba Electoral Roll, 261. Adjomnmeut, 580.-Financial Statement, Duties, Customs, 620, 623, 661, 843, 848. 615.-Amendment of Tariff Resolutions, 625. -Additional Treasmy Bills Bill, 636.­ Duties, Stamp, 651, 792, 837, 842. Treasury Notes Bill, 646.-Stamp Duties Duty, ad valorem, 620, 623. Bill, 654.-Hospitals of the Colony, 670.­ Duty on Wool, Tallow, and Hides, 770. Parliamentary Representation, 674.-Leasing Duty on Gold Repeal Act, 834. Areas Bill, 707.-Estimates for 1867, 726.­ Expenditure on Public Works, 753.-Pro­ EDMONDSTONE, GEORGE, Esquire (East More­ posed Reduction of Governor's Salary, 768. ton): Animals Slaughtering Bill, 63.­ -Export Duty on Wool, Tallow, and Hides, Brisbane Bridge Bill, 104.-Health Bill, 782.-Telegram of Election, 809.-The 296.-Se'Yerage Commissioners Bill, 463.­ Unemployed, 816.-New Military Barracks, Toowoomba and Warwick Railway, 874. 831.-Gold Export Duty Repeal Act, 834.­ Telegraphic Extension from Rockhampton to Election, 'l.'elegram of, 807. Keppel Bay, 838.-Supply, 852.-'foo­ Electoral Rolls, Revision, 261. woomba and Warwick Railway, 872.­ Emigration, Agent-General for, 158. Breach of Privilege, 887. Estates, Real, Intestate Bill, 892. FITZ, The Honorable HENRY BATES : Address in Estimates for 1867, 723. Reply to Opening Speech, 4.-Appointment Executive Coum)illors, appointed by notification of ,Postmaster-General, 43.-0pening of in Government Gazette, 557; 568. Roads Bill, 55.-Resumption of Lands under Exhibition of Queensland products in Melbourne Lease fi·om the Crown, 89, 92.-Railway and Paris, 79. Contracts, 92, 94.-Animals Slaughtering Expenditure on Public Works, 745. Bil~ 251.-Carriers Bill, 253, 257.-Expla­ uatwn, 258.-Railways of the Colony, 268.­ Explanation, Customary, when permission asked Loan Bill, 271.-l<'elons 'Apprehension Bill, for by Minister, 73. 300.-Temporary Steam Service through Explanation, Personal, 45, 95, 257, 792. Torres' Straits, 321.-The late and the present Explanations, Ministerial, 7, 73, 497, 517, 519, Police Magistrates of Warwick, 327.-Railway 522, 569. between Brisbane and Ipswich, 428, 437.­ Export Duty on Wool, Tallow, and Hides, 770. Correspondence Relating to Seats in the Export Duty on Gold Repeal Act, 834. Council, 439.-Adjournment, 585.-Leasing Extension, Tel<:lgraphic, to Keppel Bay, 838. Areas ,Bill, 741.-Railways of the Colony, 802.-Discontinuance of Public Works, 805. Felons Apprehension Bill, 132, 300. FORBES, l<'REDERICK AUGUSTUS, Esquire (War­ Financial Arrangements, 518. i'ego): Address in reply to Opening Speech, Financial Condition of the Colony, 508, 517, 519. 10.-Civil Service Inquiry, 56.-Animals Slaughtering Bill, 62.-Hospitals of the Financial Crisis, 517, 519. Colony, 81, 669.-"Statistical Register," 87.­ Financial Position of the Colony, 496. Immigration under the Land Order System, Financial Statllment, 151, 594. 100,-Law of Pa~tnership Bill, 102.­ Fisheries, Oyster, 844. Defence of the Colony, 111.-Pastoral FITZSIMMONS, CHARLES, Esquire (Jlooklzampton) : 'Tenants Relief Bill, 118. - Statistical Address in Reply to Opening Speech, 24.­ Returns, 135.-Claim of the Honorable Civil Service Inquiry, 59.-Water Supply to Colonel O'Connell, 137.-Standard vVeight Towns, 95.-Crown Lands Sale Bill, 97, for Agricultural Produce Bill, 14fi.-Ways 332.-Immigration under the Land Order and Means, 229.-0lerk of the Assembly System, 99.-Defence of the Colony, 112.­ and Staff of the House, 260.-Crown Lands Pastoral Tenants Relief Bill, 117.-Felons Sale Bill, 375.-Torres Straits' Route, 449. Apprehension Bill, 133.-Claim of the Hon­ -'-Quarantine Laws, 477.-Resumption of orable Colonel O'Connell, 138.-Immigration, Runs, 483.-Immigration under Agent­ 169.-Ways and Means, 235.-Clerk of the General unsatisfactoryti'88.-Jm·y Bill, 493. Assembly and Staff of the House, 260.­ -Financial Crisis, 520.-Privilege-Com­ Assent to Loan Bill, 297.-Railways of the munieation between the Governor and the Colony, 312.-Completion of Railway Lines other Branches of the Legislature, 533.­ INDEX. 7 't' Resignation of the Ministry, 534, 541.­ Revision of Electoral Rolls for Drayton and Adjonrnment, 582.-Ministerial Statement, Toowoomba and Western Downs, 263.­ 588.-Financial Statement, 606.-Amend· Completion of Railway Lines to Dalby, War­ ment of Tariff, 627.-Additional Treasury wick, and Westwood, 408.-Diseases Preva­ Bills Bill, 634,-Treasnry Notes Bill, 646.­ lent among Cattle and Sheep, 423.-Financial Stamp Duties Bill, 654 -Right of Petition, Statement, 620.-Additional Treasury Bills 700.-Leasing Areas Bill, 706.-Estimates Bill, 636.-Parliamentary Representation, for 1867, 723.-Expenditure on Public 674.-Leasing Areas Bill, 707.-Estimates Works, 761.-Proposed Reduction of Gov· for 1867, 735.-Proposed Abolition of Dis­ ernor's Salary, 769.-Export Duty on Wool, trict Conrts, 741.-Expenditure on Public Tallow, and Hides, 784. Works, 761.-Proposed Reduction of Gov­ Free Port at Port Albany, 147, 299. ernor's Salary, 768.-Export Duty on Wool, Tallow, and Hides, 770.-Appropriation Friendly Societies Enabling Bill, 894. Bill, 860.-Toowoomba Corporation, 863.­ Breach of Privilege, 887. GIBBON, The Honorable J AMES : Addr011s in reply HALY, CHARLES Ro:BERT, Esquire (Burnett): to Opening Speech, 4.-Railway between Pastoral Tenants Relief Bill, 129.-Crown Brisbane and Ipswich, 436.-Sugar and Lands Sale Bill, 353.-Completion of Rail way Coffee Regulations, 884.-Standard \Veight Lines to Dalby, Warwick, and Westwood, of Agricultural Produce, 884.-Railway 411.-Diseases Prevalent among Cattle and Lands Compensation Bill, 899. Sheep, 416, 426.-Immigration under Land Gold Duty, Repeal of, Act, 834. Order System, 461.-Resumption of Runs, GORE, The Honorable St. GEORGE RIOHARD : 486.-Adjonrnment, 576, 581.-Stamp Duties Felons Apprehension Bill, 300.-The late Bill, 654.-Leasing Areas Bill, 709.-Export and the present Police Magistrates of War­ Duty on Wool, Tallow, and Hides, 780.­ wick, 323.-Railway between Brisbane and The Unemployed, 817. Ipswich, 433.-Correspondence relative to "Hansard," 876. Seats in the Council, 438.-Resignation of HARDEN, THEODORE, Esquire (Mitckell) : Crown the Ministry, 531.-Suspension of Standing Lmuls Sal" Bill, 385.-Torres' Straits Route, Orders, 557. (Vide "PosTMASTER-GENE· 451. RAL" for remainder.) Harris, Messrs. J. and G., Supply Government Government, Claims against the, 74, 105, 149. Stores, 75. Government Gazette, Appointment of Executive HARRIS, The Honorable GEORGE : Railway Con­ Councillors by notification in the, 557, 568. tracts, 94.-Loan Bill, 386.-Felons Appre­ Government, Representation of, in the Council, hension Bill, 301.-Temporary Steam Service 555. through Torres' Straits, 318.-New Houses Government Resident at Port Curtis, Claims of of Parliament, 720.-0yster Fisheries Act, the late, 136. 846.-Arbitration Case, Peto, Brassey, and Government Stores, Supply of, by M~ssrs. J. and Betts, 846. G. IIarris, 75. Health Bill, 294. Governor and his Ministry, Correspondence be· Helidon and Ipswich Road Tolls, 737. tween, 522, HERBERT, The Honorable Ro:sERT GEORGE Governor, Messages from the, 293, 299, 57~. WYNDHAM (West Moreton): Ministerial Governor Opens the Session, 1. Statement, 47.-0ivil Service Inquiry, 58.­ Governor Prorogues Parliament, 906. Brisbane Waterworks Bill, 65.-Supply of Governor's Despatches to the Secretary for the Government Stores by Messrs. J. and G. Cclonies, 7 4. Harris, 78.-Exhibition of Queensland Products in Melbourne and Paris, 78.­ Govemor's Name not to be used in Debate, 538, Imperial Protection of the Colony, 83.­ 540. " Statistical Register," 87.-Brisbane Bridge, Governor's Salary, Proposed Reduction of, 766. 105.-Crown Land Sale Bill, 134, 370.­ Grant to Acclimatization Society, 865. Claim of the Honorable Colonel O'Connell, GROOM, WILLIAM HENRY, Esquire '(Drayton and 136, 140.-Ways and Means, 243, 249.­ Toowoomba) : Hospitals of the Colony, 79, Railways of the Colony, 312.-Completion 664.-Crown Lands Sale Bill, 98, 378, 382.­ of Railway Lines to Dalby, Warwick, and Defence of the Colony, 110.-Pastoral Tenants Westwood, 40"2.-Torres' Straits Route, 442., Relief Bill, 119.-Small Debts Recovery Bill, -Immigration under Land Order System, HO.-Standard ·weight for Agricultural 457.-Sewerage Commissioners Bill, 463.~ Produce Bill, 143.-vVays and Means, 217.­ Bmrum CDall\Iinc, 4,74.-l\finisterial E~l'la- 8 INDEX. J; nation, 499, 530.-Legal Tender Notes Bill, Lauds and Works: (Vide " SECRETARY FOR 507.-Financial Condition of the Colony, LANDS AND WORKS.") 508.-Financial Crisis, 517, 520.-Resigna­ LANDSllOROUGH, The Houorable WrLLUM: Re­ tion of the Ministry, 534.-Adjournment of signation of his Seat as a Member of .the the House, 535, 536.-Ministerial Arrange­ Council, 2. ments, 562.-Change of Ministry, 568.- ' Laud, Railway, Compensation Bill, 899. Treasury Bills Bill, 568.-New Ministry, 572. Lauds of the Crown Sale Bill, 97, 134, 175, 328, -Adjournment, 572 574,576, 577,581, 583. 498. •nEuSSLER, The Honorable JoHN CHRISTIAN: Lauds under Lease, Resumption of, 89, 479. Additional Customs Duties Act Amendment Bill, 850. Late Government Resident at Port Curtis, 136. Hides, Duty on, 770. Late Police Magistrate at Warwick, 323. Ho:alls, The Honorable WILLUM: Oyster Law of Partnership Bill, 102. Fisheries Act, 846.-0ivil List Amendment Laws, Quarantine, 474. Act of 1862, 817.-Additional Customs Leased Crown Lands, Resumption of, 89, 479. Duties Act. Amendment Bill, 849.-Appoint­ Leasing Act of 1866 and Sugar Resolutions, 877. ment of Additional Ministero, 853.-Sugar Leasing Areas Bill, 678, 701, 720, 721, 739, and Coffee Regulations, 883.-Standard Leave of Absence, 95, 621. Weight for Agricultural Produce, 884.­ Distillation and Sale of Colonial Br;ndy, Legal Tende1· Notes Bill, 507. 885.-Medical Act Amendment Bill, 897. Legislative Assembly, Officers of, 259, 869. Hospitals of the Colony, 79, 664. Legislative Council, Officers of, 737. Houses of Parliament, New, 717, 860. Legislative Council Printing, 660, 691, 736, 765. Legislative Council, Recall of Bitl from, 792. Illegal Appropriation, Alleged, 531. Lessees under Sugar Regulations, 877. Immigration, 889. Lines of Railway, Completion of Present, 394. Immigration Act, 721, 842. Loan Bill, 258, 269, 293, 296. Immigration under Agent-General unsatisfactory, Lunatic Asylum, W oogaroo, 852; 882. 158,487. MACALISTER, The Honorable ARTHUR (Ipswich): Immigration under Land Order System, 99, 454, (Vide " SECRETaRY FOR LANDS AND 502. WoRKS").-Ministerial Arrangements, 562, Imperial Protection of the Colony, 82. 564.-Adjournment, 572, 576, 579, 582. Improvement of Navigation of Brisbane and (Vide "CoLONIAL SECRETARY" for re­ Bremer Rivers, 8\\9. mainder.) Injuries to Property Act Amendment Bill, 895, Magistrates at Warwick, 323. 899. MACKENZIE, ROBERT RAMSAY, Esqui1•e (Burnett): Inquests of Death Bill, 84, 150, 293. (Vide" OoLONIA.L SECRETA.RY").-Ministerial Intestate Real Estates Bill, 892. Anangements, 563.-Adjournment, 573.­ Introduction of .New Matter in Reply on a Amendment of Tariff, 626.-Right of Peti­ Delmte, 469. tion, 699.-Stafford H; W ebb, 723.-Esti­ matesfor 1867, 724.-Proposed Reduction of Ipswich and Brisbane Railway, 428, 861. Governor's Salary, 769.-'l'he Unemployed, Ipswich and Helidon Road Tolls, 737. 8l4.-Immigration, 842.-Toowoomba and Irregular Debate, 474. Warwick Railway, 874. Irregular Discussion, not recorded, 97. McDouGAL'£,, The Honorable JoHN FREDERICK: Issue of Treasury Bills, 560, 568, 572. Ca1Tiers Bill, 255.-Loan Bill, 290._:Cum­ berland Disease Bill, 292.-Railway between Judgments and Bills of Sale Bill, 892, 896. Brisbane and Ipswich, 435.- Additional Jurisdiction, Admiralty, 494, 502, 572. Treasury Bills, 697.-New Houses of Par­ liament, 720 -Leasing Areas Bill, 741.­ Jury Bill, 492. Civil List Amendment Act of 1862, 848.­ Additional Customs Duties Act Amendment Keppel Bay and Rockhampton Telegraphic Exten­ Bill, 849. sion, 838. McLEAN, JoHN DoNALD, Esquire (Eastern Downs): Supply of Government Stores by Land Laws, Private Meeting of Membe1·s on, 95. Messrs. J. and G. Han·is, 78.-Pastoral Land Order System of Immigration, 99, 454, 502. Tenants Relief Bill, 124.-Crown Lands Sale Lauds Adjoining Railways, 478. Bill, 365.-Completion: of Railway Line to INDEX.

Dalbv, Warwick, and Westwood, 411.­ Ministry and the Governor, Correspondence Torres' Straits Route, 447.-Immigration between, 522. under Land Order System, 458.-Burrum Ministry, Change of, 568. Coal Mine, 469.-Resumptio;n. of Runs, 485. Ministry, the New, 572. -Clerk of Petty Sessions at. Toowoomba, Ministry, Resignations of the, 518, 522, 530. 491.-Financial Condition of the Colony, 514.-Resignation of the Ministry, 537.­ Motion Lapsed for want of a Seconder, 97. Explanation, 571. (Vide" CoLONIAL TREA· Motions for Adjournment: (Vide"Adjournment.") SURER" for remainder.) Motion on Privilege not put by Speaker, 533. Means, Ways and, 150, 214. Motion for Suspension of Session'al Order, 531. Medical Act of 1861 Amendment Bill, 786, 890, Motions for Suspension of Standing Orders, 150, 896. 267, 534, 556, 568. Meeting of Members of Assembly on Land Laws, Motions withdrawn~ 40, 94, 105, 266, 299, 428; 95. 437, 439, 487, 491, 501, 533, 556, 661, 678, Meeting of Parliament, 1. 695, 701, 721, 736, 737, 810, 838, 847, 853, Melbourne, Exhibition of Queensland Products 860, 863, 865, 877, 889, 894, 896. at, 78. Motion without notice, 531, 723. Member must intimate Motion in his Spee"ch, 531, Motion without notice must be u~posed, 556. 698. Member, Decease of, 794. Navigation of Brisbane and BJ.•emer Rivers, Im­ Members, Appointment of, 717. provement o£; 839. Members leave the Assembly, 565. New Houses of Parliament, 717, 860. Members of Assembly go up to Council Chamber, New Military Barracks, 825. 1. New Ministry, 572. Members of Assembly, Private Meeting of, 95. Notes, Legal Tender,. 507. Message from Assembly, 560, 804. Notes, Treasury, 645, 697. Message from Council, 296. Me~sages from the Governor, 293, 299, 572. O'Connell, Claim of The Honorable'Colonel, 13B. Messages,, Question of Practice, 807 O'OoNNELL, The Honorable MA.URICE CHA.RLES: MILES, WrLLIAM, Esquire (111aranoa): Civil (fide" PRESIDENT.") Service Inquiry, 61.-Pastoral Tenants Relief Officers of the Assembly, 259, 869. Bill, 119.-Felons Apprehe~sion Bill, 133.­ Officers of the Legislative Council, 737. Claim of the Honorable Colonel O'Connell, Opening of Roads Bill, 2, 54,·116. 138.-Railways of the Colony, 314.-Crown Opening Speech, Governor's 1, 7. Lands Sale Bill, 384.-Completion of Rail­ way Lines to Dalby, Warwick, and W estwood, Opening Speech, Reply of Assembly to, 8. 410.-Diseases prevalent among Cattle and Opening Speech, Reply of Council to, 2, 40. Sheep, 425.--Torres' Straits Route, 452.­ Order, Land, System of Immigration, 99. Immigration under Land Order System, 459. Order of Proceeding against a Newspaper in a -Burrum Coal Mine, 466.-Treasury Notes matter of Privilege, 95. Bill, 651.- Hospitals Committee, 673 ­ Order and Practice, Rulings on: (Vide "PRESI· Loosing Areas Bill, 714.-Estimates for 1867, DEKT" and "SPEAKER.") 735.-Proposed Abolition of District Courts, Order, discharged, 134, 622. .. . 744.-Expenditure on Public Works, 754.­ V'fl ,' >' , Proposed" Reduction of Governor's Salary, Order, Land, System of ImmigJjion, 99, 454, . 770.-Export Duty on Wool, Tallow, and 502. Hides, 781. Orders, Suspension.of Sessional, 531. Military Barracks, New, 825. Orders, Suspension of Standing, 150, 267, 534, Mine, Burrum, Coal, 464. 556, 568, 627. Mineral Prospectors' Rights, 811. Oyster Fisheries Act, 844. Minister, CustoJ)lary to allow Explanation by, 73. PALMER,ARTHUR HUNTER, Esquire (Port Ou1·tis) : Crown Lands Sale Bill, 382.-0ompletion Ministerial Arrangements, 561, 571, 622. of Railway Lines to Dalby, Warwick, and Ministerial Explanations, 7, 73, 497, 517, 519, W estwood, 415.-Torres' Straits Route, 450. 522, 569. -Immigration under Land Order System, Ministerial State~ents, 45, 586, 621, 628. 460.-Amendment of Tariff, 626.-A.ddi­ Ministe,·s, Appointment of Additional, 853. tional Treasury Bills. Bill; 640.-Treasury 10 INDEX.

Notes Bill, 645.-Stamp Duties Bill, 656.­ 438. - immigration under Land Order Parliamentary Representation, 677.-Leasing System, 502.-Brisbane Waterworks Bill, Areas Bill, 716. -Proposed Abolition of 502.-Explanation, 517.-FinancialArrange· District Courts, 744.-Expenditure on Pubiic ments : Tender of Resignation of the Works, 757.-Proposed Rffi.uction of Gov­ Ministry, 518.-Explanation: Re-assumption • ernor's Salary, 766.-The Unemployed, 821. of responsible Office by the Ministry, 519. -Gold Export Duty Act Repeal, 835.­ -Public Business, 521. -Resignation of Telegraphic Extension from Rockhampton the Ministry, 530. (Vide "DouGLAS" for to Keppel Bay, 838.-·A.cclimatization Society, remainder.) Grant irr* Aid of, 868.-Toowoomba and PosTMASTER-GENERAL, The Honorable THOMAS Warwick Railway, 873.-Breach of Privilege, LODGE MURRAY PRIOR : Ministerial Arrange­ 887. . ments, 571.-Adjournment, 584. (Vide P ANTON, The Honorable JOHN : Address in reply "PRIOR" for remainder.) to Opening Spee~, 3.-Appointmentof Post­ PosTMASTER-GENERAL, TheHonorableST. GEoRGE master-General, 43.-Resumption of Lauds RICHARD GoRE: Appointment ofPostmaster­ under Lease from the Crown, !H.-Railway General, 621.-Privileges Bill, 622.-Minis­ Contracts, 94.-Claims against Government terial Arrangements, 622, 628.-Breach of Bill,150.-Loan Bill, 285.-Temporary Steam Privilege, 660, 691, 736.-Additional Cus­ Service,through Tones' Stmits, 320. toms Duties Bill, 661, 848.-Additional Paris, Exhibition of Queensland Products at, 78. Treasury Bills Bill, 695.-Treasnry Notes Parliament, Meeting of, 1. Bill, 697.-Appointment of Members, 717. -New Houses of .Parliament, 718.-0flicers Parliament, New Houses of, 717, 860. of the Council, 739.-Leasing Areas Bill, 720, Parliament, Prorogation of, 906. 739.-Decease of Membe1:s, 794 -Railways Parliamentary Practice, 792. of the Colony, 796.-Discontinnance of Parliamentary Representation, 674. Public Works, 805.-Stamp Duties Act, 842. Partnership La"' Amendment Bill, 102. -Oyster Fisheries Act, 845.-Arbitration Pastoral Tenm1ts Relief Bill, 117. Case; Peto, Brassey, and Betts, 847.-Civil List AmendmenL _A_..;L of 1862, 847 .~- ,_\Voo­ Personal Atta:"ck, Right to reply to, 469. garoo Lunatic Asylum, 853, 882.-Appoint­ Personal Explanations, 45, 95, 257. ment of Additional Ministers, 85~.-Sugar Petition, Right of, 697, 723. and Coffee Regulations, 883.-Standard Petition from the Unemploy~d, 813. Weight of Agricultural Produce, 884.-Dis­ Peto, Brassey, and Betts, Arbitration Case, 846. tillation and Sale of Colonial Brandy, 885. Petty Sessions, Clerk of, at Toowoomba, 491. -Distillation Bill, 895.-Railway Lands Compensation Bill, 899.-Diseased Animals Police ~fagistrates at Warwick, 323. Bill, 899.--Injuries to Property Act Aniend­ Port Albany Free Port Bill, 147, 299. ment Bill, 899.-Appropriation Bill, 899. Port Curtis, late Government Resident at, 136. Power of Gove1·nor to convene Parliament, 567. Port Denison, the Discoverer of, 266. Postmaster-General, Appointment of, 40, 571, 621. Presentation of Address in Reply to Opening Speech, 40, 45. PoSTMASTER· GENERAL, The , Honorable JOHN Presentation of Bills to Assert Privileges of Par­ DoUGLAS: Presents Opening of Roads Bill, liament, 2, 7. 2.-Address in Reply to Opening Speech, 6. -Appointment of Postmaster-General, 40, Present Police Magistrate at Warwick, 323. 43.-Busift;;s''of the Session, 45.-0pening PRESIDENT, The Honorable MAURICE CHARLES of Roads Bill, 54, 116.-Inquests of Death O'CoNNELL: Reads Vice-Regal Speech on Bill, 84, 150.-Defence of the Colony, 88.­ Opening of Parliament, 2.-Acquaints the Resumption of Lands under Lease from the Council with Governor's Answer to Address Crown, 91.-Railway Contracts, 94.-Ani­ in Reply to Opening Speech, 40.-Inquests mals Slaughtering Bill, 115, 251.-'Carriers of Death Bill, 86.-Resumption of Lands Bill, 255.-Explanation, 257.-Loan Bill, under Lease from the Crown, 92.-Motion 258, 26H, 290.-Suspension of Standing not to be Postponed after Q.nestion put, 94. Orders, 267.-Railways of the Colony, 268. -Order as to Explanation, 258.-Loan Bill: -Port Albany Dues Bill, 299.-lfelons Ruling as to Practice upon Introduction of Apprehension Bill, 300.-Temporal'Y Steam Finance Measure, 258. ,_Debates of one Service through Torres' Straits, 315, 322.­ Branch of the Legislature not to be referred Police Magistrates at Warwick, 326.-Rail­ to in the other, 272.-Loan Bill, 289.­ way between Brisbane and Ipswich, 431.­ Right of the Governor to signify his Assent Correspondence relative to Seats in the House, to Loan Bill by M:essage, 293.---Temporary INDEX. 11

Steam Service through Torres' Straits, 321. Produce, Standard Weight for Agricultural, 1,43, -Amendment on Substantive Motion not to 884. be entertained until Previous Question with­ Products, Exhibition of Quewsland, 78. drawn, 437.-Financial Arrangements, 518. -Resignation of Ministry, 519, 531.-Abso­ Property, Injuries to, Amended Act, 895, 899. lute Majority of Council must be present on Proposed Abolition of District Courts, 741. Motion without Notice to suspend Standing Products, Queensland, Exhibition of, 78. Orders, 556.-Financial Crisis, 558.-Mes­ sage from the Assembly : Treasury Bills Proposed concessions · to Company for construc­ Bill, 560.-Leave of Absence to Member, tion of Railway from Brisbane to Ipswich, 621.-Proceedings of Select Committees not 861. to be made known before Report is laid Proposed Reduction of Governor's Salary, 766. on the Table, 630.-Question of Privilege, Prorogation of Parliament, 906. 692, 694, 736.-New Houses of Parliament, 719.-Helidon and Ipswich Road 1'olls, 737. Prospectors, Mineral, Rights of, 811. -Officers of the Council, 737.-Deeease of Protection of Q.ueensland, Imperial, 82. Member, 794.-Messages, Question of Prac­ Protection, Imperial, 82. tice, 807.-Appointment ofAdditional Minis· ters, 858.-Sugar and Coffee Regulations, Public Affairs, 507. 883.-Distillation and Sale of Colonial Public Business, 521. Brandy, 885.-License of Speech, 896.­ Public Works, Discontinuance of, 804. Medieal Act Amendment Bill, 899. Public Works, Expenditure on, 745. PRING, The Honorable RATCLIFFE (Ipswivk) : Address in reply to Opening Speech, 12, 35. PUGJJ:, TJJ:EOP.IJ:ILUS pARSONS, Esquire (North -Brisbane Waterworks Bill, 70, 73.-Immi­ Brisbane) : Address in Reply to Opening gration under Land Order System, 99.­ Speech. 32.-Civil Service Inquiry, 60.­ Consolidation of Colonial Statutes, 107.­ Brisbane Waterworks Bill, 67.-Supply of Defence of the Colony, 112, 115.-Pastoral Government Stores by 1\Iessrs. J. and G. Tenants Relill'f Bill, 122.-Felons Appre­ Harrie, 77.-Hospitals of the Colony, 82, 668. hension Bill, 133. -Crown Lands Sale Bill, --"Statistical Register," 87.-Crown Lands 135, 179.-Claim of the Honorable Colonel Sale Bill, 97, 135, 346.-Immigration under O'Connell, 137.-Small Debts Recovery Bill, Land Order System, 101. - Brisbane 141.-Ways and Means, 236.-Railways of Bridge, 105.-Defence of the Colony, 112.­ the Colony, 310.-Completion of Railway Pastoral 'l'enants Relief Bill, 122.-Felons Lines to Dalby, Warwick, and vVestwood, Apprehension Bill, 134.-Claim of the Honor­ 401.-Ministerial Explanation, 497, 501.­ able Colonel O'Connell, 138.-Small Debts Public Affairs, 507.-Financial Condition of Recovery Bill, 142.-Ways and M(lans, 158.­ the Colony, 511, 516.-Resignation of the Immigration, 173.-0lerk of the Assembly Ministry, 543.-Explanation 569. and Staff of the House, 259, 261.-Health Bill, 296.-Assent to Loan Bill, 297.­ Printing, Legislative Council, 660, 691, 736, 765. Railways.,of the Colony, 312.-Torres' Strarts PRIOR, The Honorable T.IIOMAS LODGE MURRAY: Route, 444.-Burrum Coal Mine, 467.­ Appointment of Postmaster-General, 42.­ Ministerial Explanation, 498. -Financial Inquests of Death Bill, 85.-Animals Slaugh­ Condition of th~, Colony, 516.--,-Resignation tering Bill, 116, 250.-0pening of Roads of the Ministry, 547.-A.djournment, 575, Bill, 117.-Carriers Bill, 257.-Loan Bill, 577.-Ministerial Statement, 587.-Financial 2S8.-Temporary Sk'!Lm Service through Statemeint, 618.-Arl Valorem Duty, 620, Torres' Straits, 319.-Railway between Bris­ 623.-Additional Treasury Bills Bill, 634.­ bane and Ipswich, 435.-Ministerial State­ Treasury Notes Bill, fl46.-Stamp Duties ment, 629.-Additional Treasury Bills, 697. Bill, 656.- Parliamentary Repr:esentation, (Viae "PoSTMASTER-GENERAL.") 676.-Right of Petition, 700.-Leasing Areas Previous Question, 314, 432. Bill, 712.-Estimates for 1867, 730.-Expen­ Private Meeting of Members on Land Laws, diture on Public Works, 760.-Proposed 95. Reductionof Governor's Salary, 766.-Export Privilege, 95, 533, 660, 807. · Duty on Wool, Tallow, and Hides, 785.­ Medical Act of 1861 Amendment Bill, 786. Privileges Act Amendment Bill, 572. -Civil Service Act Repeal Bill, 791.-Tele­ Privileges Bill, 621. gram of Election, 808.-The Unemployed, Privilege, Question of, 660, 691, 736, 765, 885. 813.-New Military Barracks, 827.-A.ddi­ Proceedings of House when Speaker's Ruling tional Customs Duties Act Amendment Bill, Objected to, 47.4. 843.-Brisbane and Ipswich Railway; 862.­ 12 INDEX.

Officers of the Assembly, 869.-" Hansard," Refusal of the Cl overnor to assent to Legal Tender 877.-Breach of Privilege, 886.-Distillation Notes Bill, 522. Bill, 903, 904. Register, Statistical, 87. Registrars of District Courts, 495, 501, 572. Quarantine Laws, 474. Relief of Pastoral Tenal'\ts, 117. Queensland Products, Exhibition of, 78. Repeal of Civil Service Act, 787, 809. Question of Practice (Messages), 807. Repeal of Gold Duty .A et, 834. Question to "Private Member put through Speaker, Reply, Right of, 469, 473. 533. Reply to Opening Speech, Addresses in, 2, 8, 40,. 45. RAFF, GEoRGE, Esquire (North Brisbane): Address in Reply to Opening Speech, B.­ Representation of the Government in the Council, Civil Service Inquiry, 57.__:_Brisbane Water· 555. works Bill, 64.-Immig:ration under the Representation, Parliamentary, 674. Land Order System, 99.-Law of Partner­ Resident, Government, at Port Curtis, 136. ship Bill,103.-Defence of the Colony, 112.­ Resignation of the Honorable W. Landsborough, Pastoral Tenants Relief Bill, 125.-Clain:: of 2. the Honorable Colonel O'Connell, 138.­ Resignation of the Ministry, 518, ·530, 533. Crown Lands Sale Bill, 210.-Ways and Resumption of Runs, 89, 479. Means, 214, 219.-Health Bill, 296.-Rail­ ways of the Colony, 312.-Completion ofRail­ Returns, Statistical, 135. wad; ~ines to Dalby, Warwick, and W estwood, Revision of Electoral Rolls for Dray ton ami Too­ 399, 403.-Diseaseo prevalent among Cattle woomba and Western Downs, 261. and Sheep, 423.-Torres' Straits Route, 443. Right of Petition, 697, 723. -Resumption of Runs, 483.-Immigration Rights of Mineral Prospectors, 811. under. Agent-General unsatisfactory, 487.­ Right of Reply on Pereonal Matter, 469, 473. Ministm;ial Explanation, 498.-Legal Tender Rivers Brisbane and Bremer, Iin.provement of, Notes Bill, 507.-Financial Condition of the 839. Colony, 508.-Resignation of the Ministry, 536,-MinistE\rial An·angemeU:ts, 561.-Ex­ Roads, Opening of, 2, 54, 116. planation, 569.-Adjournment,580.-Amend· Ro.ad from Ipswich to Helidon, Tolls upon, 737. ment of Tariff, 624.-Additional Treasury RoBERTS, The Honorable DANIEL FoLEY : In­ Bills Bill, 637.-Leasing Areas Bill, 684.­ quests of Death Bill, 85.-Animals Slaugh· Estimates for 1867, 727.-Expenditure on tering :Bill, 250.-Carriers Bill, 256.-Felons Public Works, 748.-Supply, 810".-The Un· Apprehension Bill, 301.-Judgments and employed, 817.-Brisbane al)d Ipswich Rail­ Bills of Sale Bill, 896.--Railway Lands Com­ way, 862.-Acclimatization Society, Grant pensation Bill, 899. to, 865:-Toowoomba and Warwick Railway, Rockhampton to Keppel Bay, Telegraphic Exten­ 871.-Breach of Privilege, 886.-Distillation sion, 838. Bill, 900. Rolls, Revision of Electoral, 261. Railway Arbitration Case, 846 Route, 'Torres' Straits, 315, 439. Railway between Brisbane and Ipswich, 428, 861. Royal Assent to Bills, 293, 296, 572. Railway Contracts, 92. Railway :from Toowoomba to Warwick, 394, 871 Royal Instructions in regard to Assent to Bills, 900. ' 524. Railway Lands Compensation Bill, 8!J9. RoYns, EnwARD MoLYNEUX, Esquire (Leick· Railway Lines, Completion of, 394. kardt) : Crown Lands Sale Bill, 385.-Com­ pletion of Railway Lines to Dalby, Warwick, Railways, Orown Lands adjoining, 478. and W estwood, 404.-Torres' Straits Route, Railways of the Colony, 267, 301, 795. 452.-Immigration under Land Order Sys­ Real Estate Intestates Bill, 892. tem, 462.-Quarantine Laws, 476.-Addi­ Recall of Bill :from Legislative Council, proposed, tional Treasury Bills Bill, 642. -Leasing 792. Areas Bill, 713.-Expenditure on Public Recovery of Small Debts Bill, 140, 899. Works, 759.-Export Duty on Wool, Tallow, Reduction of Governo:l"'"s Salary, Proposed, 766. and Hides, 784.-The Unemployed, 822.­ Toowoomba Corporation, 865. REED, GEORGE McCULLOUGE, Esquire (Ipswi(Jh) : Treasury Notes Bill, 648.-Leasing Areas Rulings from the Chair: (Vide "PRESIDENT" a'"nd Bill, 689.-Breach of Privilege, 887. "SPEAKER.") Refusal of Speake: to put Motion, 533. Runs, Resumption of, 89, 479. INDEX. 13

Sala~y of the Governor, Proposed Reduction of, Legal Tender Notes Bill, 507.-Financial 766. Condition of the Colony, 5i5.-Financial Sale of Crown Lands, 97, 134, 175, 328," 498. Crisis, 519.-Ministerial Explanation: Con­ stitutional Difference between the Governor Sale and Distillation of Colonial Brandy, 885. and his Responsible Advisers, and Resigna­ SANDEMAN, GoRDON, Esquire (Leickkardt) : Ad­ tion of the Ministry, 522, 531, 533, 534·, 553. dress in reply to Opening Speech, 39.-Minis­ (Vide " MACALISTER" and " CoLONI.f\.L terial Statement, 50.-Civil Service Inquiry, SECRETARY"· for remainder.) 60.-Crown L11nds Sale Bill, 97, 387.­ SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC LANDS, The Honorable Defence of the Colony, llO. -Pastoral ·JosHUA PETER BELL (West Moreton): _;,i;:nants Relief Bill, 121.-Felons Apprehen­ Amendment of Tariff, 626. - Additional sion Bill, 133.-C111im of the Honorable Treasury Bills Bill, 637.-Estimates for Colonel O'Connell, 138.-Assent to Loan 1867, 732.-Expenditure on Public Works, Bill, 299.-Completion of Railway Lines to 758:-Proposecl Reduction of Governor's Dalby, Warwick, and Westwood, 404.­ Salary, 769.-Rights of Mineral Prospec­ Diseases prevalent among Cattle and Sheep, tors, 812.-New Military Barracks, 830. 424.-Torres' Straits Route, 451.-Immigra­ -Gold Export Duty Act Repeal, 835.-Dis­ tion under Land Order System, 460.-Finan­ tillation for Wine Bill, 861.-Acclima­ cial Statement, 619.-Amenclment of Tariff, tizn,tion Society, Grant in Aiel of, 867.___:.Too· 626.-Aclclitional Treasury Bills Bill, 638.­ woomba and Warwick R~ilway, 874.-Les­ Treasurj Notes Bill,. 646.- Stamp Duties sees under Sugar Regulations, 878.-Distil­ Bill, 658.-Leasing Areas Bill, 715.-Esti­ lat.iou Bill, 880, 901.-Diseased Animals Bill, mates for 1867, 734.-Export Duty ou ·wool, 881.-Breach of Privilege, 885. Tallow, and Hides, 783.--:T~legr~m of Elec­ SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC WORKS, The Ifonorable tion, 809. -Appropriation :B!li, 860.-" Han­ JoHN WATTS (Westem Downs): Amend­ sarcl," 876:--:Breach of Privilege, 887.-Dis­ ment of Tariff, 626.-Stamp Duties Bill, 657. tillation Bill, 902. -Leasing Areas Bill, 688.-Estimatcs for Seats in the Assembly Vacant, 572. 1867, 733.-Expencliture ou Public Works, Seats in the Council, Correspondence relative to, 74'1, 758,-Supply; 811.'---The Unemployed, 437. 816.-New Military Barracks, 829.-New Secretat1;; Colonial: (Vide "COLO~IAL SECRE­ Hoi.Jses of Parliament, 860.'-Acclimatization TAll.Y.") Society, Grant in Aiel of, 867.-Toowoomba. Secretary of State for the Colonies, Governor's and Warwick Railway; 872, 900:-Carriers Despatches to, 74. · Bill, 879.-Breach of Privilege, 889.-'-Dis­ tillation Bill, 902. · Secretary for Lands and Works, Appointment of, 572. Select Committees : (Vide " Committees.") SECRETARY FOR LANDS AND WORKS, The Honor­ Service, Civil, 55, 787, 809. ·lJ.ble ARTRUR MACALISTER (Ipswich): Minis_ Service, Steam, throughTorres' Str~;~its, 315. terial Explanation, 7.-Aclclress in Reply to Session, Business of the, 45. Opening Speech, lB.-Ministerial Statements; Session, Close of, 907. · 45, 47.-Brisbane Waterworks Bill, 63, 73.­ Sessional Order, Suspension of, 531. Governor' s Despatches to Secretary of State Session, Opening of the, 1. for the Colonies, 74.-Exhibition of Queens­ land Products in Melbourne and Paris, 79.­ Sew~,::age Commissione1•s Bill, 462. Imperial Protection of Queensland, 83.­ Sheep, Diseases in Cattle and, 416. Crown Lands Sale Bill, 97, 135, 175, 394.­ Sinclair, Henry Daniel, Claim of, 26'1. BrisbaneBriclge,104.-Defence of theColony, Sitting Days of Council, 45, 531. 109, ll4.-'-Pastoral Tenants Relief Bill, 117. Sl~ghtering of Animals Bill, 61, ll5, 250. -Statistical Returns, 136.-Claim of the Smai! Debts Recovery Bill, 140, 899. Honorable Golonel O'Counell, 137. -Port • .Albany Free Port Bill; 149.-Ways and Society, Acclimatization, Grant in .Aiel of, 865. Means, 241.-Clerk of the Assembly and Speaker and Mem'bers of .Assembly go up to Staff of the House, 260.-Assent to Loan Council Chamber, 1. Bill, 298.-Railways of the Colony, 306.­ SPEAKER, The Honorable GILllERT ELIOTT Completion of Railway Lines to Dalby, War­ (Wide Bay) : Reads Opening Speech, 7.­ wick, and Westwoocl, 397.-Torres' Straits Customary to allow Ministers to explain, 73. Route, 439, 443, 452.-Burrum Coal Mine, -Question put t8 a Minister not to be 465, 469.-Crown Lands purchased within debated, 95.-0rcler of proceeding against Two Miles of Railways, 478.- Ministerial a Newspaper in matter of Privilege, Explanation, 497.-Public Affairs, 507.~ 95, 96.-Irregular Discussion not to be 14 INDEX.

recorded, 97.-Second Amendment cannot be Statistical Returns, 135. entertained until the first is disposed of, 97. Statutes, Consolidation of Colonial, 106. -Member not to interrupt another while Steam SePvice through Torres' Straits, 315, 439. speaking, 132.-Clerk of the Assembly and STEPHENS, THOMAS BLACll:ET, Esquire (South Staff of the House: unusual for Speaker to Brisbane) : Addre&s in Reply to Opening serve on Committee, 261.-Assent to Loan Speech, 40.-Brisbane vVaterworks Bill, Bill, 296.-Debates of one branch of the 66.-Ways and Means, 151, 157, 223.­ Le"islature not to be referred to in the Health Bill, 295.-Crown Lands Sale Bill, otl;er, 297.-Rule in regard to Assent to 373. -Completion of Railway Lines • Bills :, Speaker's dut,y to present money Bills Dalby, Warwick, and Westwood, 39~, for Assent, 298, 299.-Member speaking in -Torres' Straits Route, 446.-Bcrrum Coal reply must confine his remarks to matters Mine, 466, 473.-Registrars of District raised in debate, 299.-Railways of the Courts Bill, 495.-Adjournment, 573.­ Colony, 305.-Amendment, irregular, 394.­ Financial Statement, 620.-.Lld valorem Member not to speak more than once indebate, Duty, 624.-Amendment of Tariff, 624.­ 454, 459.-Irregular debate, 474, 642. 643. Additional Treasury Bills Bill, 637. -No Speech allowed on withdrawal of Motion -Treasury Notes Bill, 645.- Leasing from Notice Paper, 474.-Form of Motion Areas Bill, 682.-Estimates for 1867, 735.­ for Adjournment of the House, 498.-Crown Expenditure on Public Works, 756.-New Lands Sale Bill not reported from Com­ Military Barracks, 826.-Navigation of Bris­ mittee of the Whole, 499.-Debate, though bane and Bremer Rivers, 841.-Toowoomba in order, may be inconvenient, 510.-State­ and Warwick Railway, 873.-Lessees under ments affecting the Financial Credit of the Su"ar Regulations, 878.-Distillation Bill, Colony disorderly, 517.-Member must inti­ 9o2. J mate in his speech motion which he intends to Straits, Torres', 315, 439. move without notice, 531.-Privilege, 533.­ Gov~rnor's name not to be used in Debate, Sugar Regulations, Lessees under, 877, 882. 538, 540.-Practice of the House on Change of Supply, 810, 852. Minist1-y as to Bills, 575.-Power of Gov­ Supply of Government Stores by MesSI'S. J. and m·nor to convene Parliament, 57ft-Practice G. Harris, 75. ·of Parliament in regard to Elections upon a Supply of vVater for Towns, 95. ·lll• Change of :iiq:inistry, 579, 583.-No reply to Supply of Water to Brisbane, 63, 502, 512. Ministerial Statement, 588.-Bill passed by Suspension of Sessional Order, 531. Both Houses, and assented to by Governor, not to be pronounced illegal, 643.---'-No speech Suspension· of Standing Orders, 150, 267, 534, on presentation of Petition, 698.-Reference to 556, 568, 594, 627, 843, 884, 885. evidence before Select Committees, 734.­ System of Immigration, Land Order, 99, 454, 502. Separate Motion for the printing of a Bill, 792.-Amendment that this Bill do not pass Tallow, Duty on, 770. cannot be put, 792, 837.-Recall of Bill from Tariff amended, 620, 623. Legislative Council, 793, 794, 901, 903.­ TAYLOR, JAMES, Esquire (Westm·n Downs) : Telegram of Election, 807.-Stamp Duties Ways and Means, 219, 248.-Financial Posi­ Act, 837.-Votepai!Sed through Upper House tion of the Colony, 496.-Financial Condition cannot be rescinded, 840.-Toowoomba and of the Colony, 510.-Ministerial .. Statement, Warwick Railway, 876.-Breach of Privilege, 593.-Financial Statement, 608.-Amend­ 885, 887.-No question before the House, ment of Tariff, 623. -Treasury Notes 903,,1\, Bill, 649~ - Hospitals Committee, 671. ­ Speech, Address in Reply to Opening, 2. Right of Petition, 700.-Leasing Areas Bill, Speech, Vice-Regal, 1, 906. 715.-Immigration Act, 721.-Estimates for 1867, 725.-Expenditnre on Public Works, Staff of the Assembly, 259. • 750.-Proposed Reduction• of. Governor's Stafford H. Webb (Petition), f?~7, 723. Salary, 768.-Export Duty on Wool, Tallow, Stamp Duties, 651, 792, 837, 842. and Hides, 782.-Civil Service Act Repeal Standard Weight for Agricultural Produce, 143, Bill, 787, 810.-The Unemployed, 823.-New 884. Military Barracks, 828. Standing Orders, Suspension of the, 150, 267, Telegram of Election, 807. 534 556, 568, 594, 627, 843, 884, 885. Telegraphic Extension to Keppel Bay, 838: Stateme~ts, Ministerial, 45', 586, 621, 628. Temporary Steam Service through Torres' Straits, Statements, Financial, 151, 594. 315, 439. "Statistical Register, " 87. Tenants Relief, Pastoral, 117. INDEX. 15

Tend~r Notes; Legal, 507. Explanation, 500.-Financial Condition of Tender of Resignation of Ministry, 518. the Colony, 512.-Alleged Illegal Appropria­ TIWRNTON, The Honorable WILLIAM: Oyster tion, 531.-Resignation of the Ministry, 538. Fisheries Act, 845.-Additional Customs -Ministerial .Aj,rangements, 563, ,:565.­ Duties Act Amendment Bill, 848.-Standard Adjonrnment, 576.-Financial Statement, Weight of Agricultural Produce Bill, 884;­ 608.-Amendment of Tariff, 626.-Addi­ Distillation and Sale of Colonial Brandy, tional Treasury Bills Bill, 639.-Point of 885.-Distillation Bill, 895.-Medical Act Order, 643.-Treasury Notes Bill, 647.­ Amendment Bill, 898. Stamp Duties, 653.-Hospitals Committee, Tolls on Ipswich and Helidon Road, 737. 667.-Leasing Areas Bill, 682, 701.-Right of Petition, 697.-lmmigration Act, 721.­ Toowoomba and Drayton Electoral Roll, 261. Estimates for 1867, 730.-Proposed Abolition Toowoomba, Clerk of Petty Sessions at, 491. of District Courts, 744.-Expenditure on Toowoomba Corporation, 863. Public Works, 745.-Export Duty on Wool, Toowoomba and Warwick Railway, 394,871,900. Tallow, and Hides, 778.-Civil Service Act Torres' Straits Route, Steam Service vid, 315, 439. Repeal Bill, 809.-Supply, 810. Towns, Water Supply for, 95. Warwick, Police Magistrates at, 323. Treasurer: (Vide" CoLONIAL TREASURER.") Warwick Railway, completion of, 394, 871, 900. Treasury Bills Bill, 560, 568, 572, 633, 695. Water Supply for Towns, 95. 1'reasury Notes Bill, 645, 697. Waterworks, Brisbane, 63, 502, 572. WATTS, JOHN, Esquire (Western Downs) : Unemployed, the, 813. Address in reply to Opening Speech, 29.­ Unsatisfactory Immigration under Agent-General, Ministerial Statement, 52.-Civil Service 158, 487. Inquiry, 60.-Animals Slaughtering Bill, Usher of Black Rod, Leave of Absence to, 621. 63.-Pastoral Tenants Relief Bill, 120.­ Claim of the Honorable Colonel O'Connell, Vacant Seats in the Assembly, 572. 139.-Small Debts Recovery Bill, 141.­ Vacant Seat in the Council, 621. Standard Weight fo1• Agricultural Produce Bill, 146.-Immigration,170 -Revisionofthe Vice-Regal Speech, 1, 906. Electoral Rolls for Drayton and Toowoom':Ja and Western Downs, 261, 266.-Railways of WALSH, WrLLIAM HENRY, Esquire (Mary­ the Colony, 309.-Crown Lands Sale Bill, borougk) : Address in Reply to Opening 341, 382.-Completion of Railway Lines to Speech, 20, 40.-Civil Service Inquiry, 56. Dalby, Warwick, and Westwood, 413.­ -Animals Slaughtering Bill, 62.-Brisbane Diseases prevalent among Cattle and Sheep, Waterworks Bill, 73.-Governor's Despatches 421.-Torres' Straits Route, 450. (V•de to Secretary for the Colonies, 74. .,---Imperial "SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC WORKS" for Protection of Queensland, 82, 83.-Water remainder.) Supply for Towns, 95.-Private Meeting of Members on Land Laws, 96.-Crown Lands Ways and Means, 150, 214. Sale Bill, 98.-Immigration under the Land Webb, Stafford H. (Petition), 697, 723. Order System, 100, 454.-Chtims against Weight of Agricultural Produce, 143,884. Goverpment Bill, 105. - Defence of the Western Downs Electoral Roll, 261. ColonY: 110.-Pastoral Tenants Relief Bill. W estwood railway, 394. 129.-Stanclard Weight for Agricultural WrENHOLT, ARNOLD, Esquire (Warwick): Claim Produce Bill, 145.-Port Albany Free Port of the Honorable Colonel O'Connell, 139.­ Bill, 147.-Ways and Means, 157, 231, 249, W ays and Means, 235,_:_ Financial condition -Immigration under Agent-General unsatis­ of the Colony, 517.-Acljournment, 580.­ factory, 158;,f;.487, 491.-Clerk of the Hospitals Committee, 670.-Leasing Areas Assembly and St.aff of the House, 260.­ Bill, 709.-Proposed Abolition of District Assent to Loan Bill, 296, 298.-Railways· of Courts, 7 45.-Expencliture on Public Works, the Colony, 301, 313.-Crown Lands Sale 754.-Proposed Reduction of Governor's Bill, 356.-Completion of Railway Lines to Salary, 770.-The Unemployed, 820.­ Dalby, Warwick, and Westwood, 405.­ W arwick Railway, 900. Diseases prevalent among Cattle and Sheep, 424.-Torres' Straits Route, 444, 452.­ Wine, Distillation for, 861. Burrum Coal Mine, 464, 469.-Quarantine WooD, The Honorable WESTERN: Resumption Laws, 474.-Resumption of Runs, 484.­ of Lands under lease from the Crown, 92.­ Admiralty Jurisdiction Bill, 495.-Registrars . Animals Slaughtering Bill, 115, 251.­ of District Courts Bill, 495.-Ministerial " Opening of Roads Bill, 116.-0laims 16. INDEX.

Against Government Bill, 149.-Carriers Bill, continuance of Public Works, 804.-Qutl

fAMES C. BF.AL, Acting Government Printer, W11liam sQ-eet, Brisbane. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY and LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

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Queensland Parliamentary Debates, 1st series, V.4, 1867

7 May 1867 – 23 May 1867

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30° VICTORIA, 1867.

VOL. IV.

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I. St:BJECTS OF DEBATE IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. II. SuBJECTS OF DEBATE IN THE LEGISLATIVE AsSE:.Il:BLY. Ill. Lrs·r OF DIVISIONS. IV. LIST OF THE MEMBERS AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF TIIE SESSION. V. ALPHABETICAL INDEX.

I.-SUBJECTS OF DEBATE IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. 1867. PAGE. May 7. Meeting of Parliament.-Vice-regal Speech.-Sewerage and Dminago of Towns BilL-Address in reply to Opening Speech 1 8. Address in reply to Opening Speech 31 9. Address in reply to Opening Speech 53 15. Presentation of Address in reply to Opening Speech.-Ministerial Statement.­ Woogaroo LunatioAsylum.-Prevention ofContagious Diseases BilL-Adjourn­ ment... 125 22. Ministerial Announcement ... 190 23. Ministerial Explanation, Message from the Governor, ancl Prorogation of Par­ liament 197

H.-SUBJECTS OF DEBATE IN THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY. May 7. Meeting of Parliament.-;-Marriago Laws Amendment ancl Consolidation Bill.­ ' Vice-regal Speech.-Aclclress in reply to Opening Speech 18 8. Address in reply to Opening Speech 32 9. Address in reply to Opening Speech 74 10. Address in reply to Opening Speech 109 15. Presentation of Aclclress in reply to Opening Speech.-Question of Privilege (the Cumkillenbar Run) ... .. • 127 16. Monetary Condition of the Colony.-Geological ancl Mineralogical Survey.­ Despatch relating to Petition for Governor's RemovaL-Payments out of Public Moneys to Members of Parliament.-Changes in the Public Service... 150 21. Ministerial Changes (Privilege).-Adjournment ... 176 22. Ministerial Announcement . . . 190 23. Ministerial Explanation, Message from the Governor, ancl Prorogation of Par· liament 200 ii. TABLE OF CONTENTS.

III.-LIST OF DIVISIONS. Legislative Council. PAGE. Address in reply to Opening Speech-on amendment by the Honorable Louis ~ M Ministerial Explanation, Message from the Governor, and Prorogation of Parlia­ ment-on motion by Honorable '>Vestern Wood, that message from Governor be brought in in usual form, according to Standing Orders .. . 199 Legislative Assembly. Address in reply to Opening Speech-on motion by Mr. Palmer, for adjournment of debate . .. 103 Question of Privilege (the Cumkillenbar Run)-on motion by the Honorable J. P. Bell, that A. C. Gregory, Esquire, Surveyor-General, and Waiter Hill, Esquire, Selector of Agricultural Reserves, be called to the Bar of the House 137 Question of Privilege (the Cumkillenbur Run)-on motion by the Honorable J. P. Bell, that the Surveyor-General and the Selector of Agricultlll"al Reserves be " now" called to the Bar 139 Despatch relating to Petition for Governor's removal-on the motion of Mr. Pugh for .. . 168 Ministerial Changes (Privilege)-on motion by Mr. Pugh, that the seat for Eastern Downs be declared vacant 189

I"V.-LIST OF MEMBERS AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE SESSION. THE MINISTRY. Premier and Colonial Secretary-The Honorable ARTHUR MACALISTER. (Ipswick.) Secretary for Public Lands-The Honorable JOSHUA PETER BELL. (West Moreton.) Colonial Treasurer-The Honor:1ble JOHN DouGLAS. (Easte•·n Downs.) Attorney-General-The Honomble CHARLES LILLEY. (F01·titude Valley.) Postmaster-General-(Council)-The Honorable ST. GEORGE RICHARD GoRE.

LEGISL.A.TIVE CouNCIL. The President-The Honomble M.A.URICE CHARLES O'CoNNELL. List cif Members. The Honorable JOHN ALEX.A.NDER BELL. The Honorable FRANCIS EDWARD BIGGE. The Honorable JoHN BRAMSTON. The Honorable EYLES IRWIN C.A.ULFEILD BROWNE. The Honorable HENRY BATES FITZ. The Honorable JAMES GIBBON. The Honorable ST. GEORGE RICHARD GoRE. The Honorable GEORGE HARRIS. The Honorable JOHN CHRISTIAN HEUSSLER. The Honorable WILLIAM HoBBS. The Honorable LoUIS HoPE. The Honorable JoHN McCoNNEL. The Honorable JoHN FREDERICK McDouGALL. The Honorable THOM.A.S LODGE MURR.AY PRIOR. The Honorable DANIEL FoLEY RonERTS. The Honorable WILLI.A.M THORNTO;\f. The Honorable WILLI.A.M DucKETT WHITE. The Honorable '>VESTERN WooD.

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY. The Speaker-The Honorable GILBERT ELIOTT (Wide Bay). List C?f Members. The Honorable JoSHUA PETER BELL, Esquire, Secretary for Public Lands (West Moreton). "\VILLIAM BROOKES, Esquire (Brisbane). TABLE OF COXTENTS. lll.

HENRY CrrALLINOR, Esquire (Ips1viclt). CHARLES CoxEN, Esquire, Chairman of Committees (No1·tltern Downs). BENJ"AMIN CRIBB, Esquire (West Moreton). GEORGE ELPHINSTONE DALRYMPLE, Esquire (Kennecly). The Honorable JorrN DouGLAS, Esquire, Colonial 'rreasurer (Eastern Downs). GEORGE EDMONDSTONE, Esquire (East Mo1·eton). CHARLES FITZSIMMONS, Esquire (Rockltampton). JosEPH FLEMING, Esquire (West 11doreton). FREDERICK AuGUSTUS FoRBJJS, Esquire ( Warrego). GEORGE EDWARD FoRBES, Esquire (Clermont). WrLLIAM HENRY GROOM, Esquire (Drayton and Toozvoomba). EnwARD WrLLIAM LAMB, Esquire (Mitchell). 1'he Honorable CHARLES LILLEY, Esquire, Attorney-Gencml (Fortitude Valley). The Honorable ARTHER MACALISTER, Esquire, Colonial Secretary (Ipswich). The Honorable RoBERT RAMSAY MACKENZIE, Esquire (Burnett). WILLUM MILES, Esquire (J1:faranoa). ARTHUR HUNTER PALMER, Esquire (Port Gurtis). 1'he Honorable RATCLIFFE PRING, Esquire (Burnett). TrrEOPHILUS PARSONS PUGH, Esquire (Brisbane). GEORGE RAFF, Esquire (Brisbane). GEORGE McCuLLOUGII RElln, Esquire (Ipswich). EmiUND MoLYNEUX RoYDS, Esquire (Leichltardt). GoRDON SANDEMAN, Esquire (Leicldtarclt). THOMAS BLACKET Sl'EPHENS, Esquire (South B1isbane). J AMES TAYLOR, Esquire (Western Downs). WILLIAM HmmY WALSH, Esquire (Maryborough). JonN WATTS, Esquire (Western Dozens). ARXOLD WrENIIOLT, Esquire (Wal'tPick). ALPHABETICAL INDEX

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Address of Assembly in reply to Opening Speech, CHALLINOR, HENRY, Esquire (Ipswich): Address 18. in reply to Opening Speech, 94.-Question Address, Adjourned Debate on, 32, 74, 109. of Privilege (the Cumkillenbar Run), 135.­ Address of Council in reply to Opening Speech, 3. Monetary Condition of the Colony, 155.­ Despatch relating to Petition for Governor's Address, Debate on, 31, 53. Removal, 166.-Payments out of Public Addresses in reply to Opening Speech, Presenta­ Moneys to Members of Parliament, 169.­ tion of, 125, 127. Changes in the Public Service, 173.-Minis­ Adjournment, 17. terial Changes (Privilege), 185.-Ministerial Adjournment, Ministerial Changes, 190. Announcement, 193. Amendment and Consolidation, Marriage Laws Changes, Ministerial (Privilege), 176. Bill, 18. Changes in the Public Service, 170. Announcement, Ministerial (Assembly), 190. CoLONIAL SECRETARY, The Honorable ARTHUR Announcement, Ministerial (Council), 190. MACALISTER (Ipswich): Marriage Laws Asylum, "\Voogaroo Lunatic, 126. Amendment and Consolidation Bill, 18.­ ATTOR"EY·GENERAL, The Honorable CHARLES Address in reply to Opening Speech, 31, 32, LILLEY (Fortitude Valley) : Address in reply 74, 93, 103.-Presentation of Address in to Opening Speech, 121.-Question of Pri­ reply to Opening Speech, 127.-Question of vilege (the Cm11killenbar Rtm), 129, 133.­ Privilege (the Cumkillenbar Run), 128, 132, Paymc11ts out of Public Moneys to Members 133,138,149, 150.-DespatchrelatingtoGov­ of Parliament, 169.-ChaDges i11 the Public ernor's Removal, 164.-Changes in the Public Service, 172, 175.-Ministerial Changes Service, 171, 174.-Ministerial Changes (Privilege), 176, 183.-Ministerial AnnouDce­ (Privilege), 176, 177, 178, 180, 188.- Ad· ment, 193, 194, 195.-MiDisterial Explana­ journment (Ministerial Changes), 190.­ tion, l\ressage from the Governor, and Pro­ Ministerial Announcement, 190, 191, 196.­ rogation of Parliament, 202. Ministerial Explanation, Message from the Governor, and Prorogation of Parliament, Bills : Marriage Laws Amendme11t and Consolida­ 200, 202, 203. tion, 18.-Prevention of Co11tagious Diseases, 127.-Sewerage and Drainage of Towns, 3. CoLONIAL TuEASURER, The Honorable J orrN BROOKES, VVILLIAJYI, Esquire (North Brisbane): DoUGLAS (Eastern Downs): Address in reply Address in reply to Opening Speech, 85.-'­ to Opening Speech, 48.- Question of Question of Privilege (the Cumkillenbar Privilege (the Cumkillenbar Run), 136.­ Run), 128.-Monetary Condition of the Monetary Condition of the Colony, 150.­ Colony,156.-Payments out of Public Moneys Despatch relating to Petition for Governor's to Members of Parliament, 169.-Ministerial Removal, 167 .-Changes in the PublicService, Changes (Privilege), 181. 172.- (Vide "SECRETARY FOU PUBLIC vVORKS.") BROWNE, The Honorable EYLES IRWIN CAUL­ Colony, Monetary Condition of, 150. FEILD : Address in reply to Opening Speech, 60.-Ministerial Announcement, 190.-Min­ Consolidation and Amendment of Marriage Laws isterial Explanation, Message from the Gov­ Bill, 18. ernor,and Prorogation ofParliament,198, 199. Contagious Diseases, Prevention of, Bill, 127. 2 INDEX.

COXEN CHARLES, Esquire (Northern Downs) : of Public Moneys to Members of Parliament, Address in reply to Opening Speech, 18, 19.­ 168, 169.-Changes in the Public Service, Question of Privilege (the Cumkillenbar 170, 175. Run), 150. Laws, Marriage, Amendment and Consolidation CmBB, RoBERT, Esquire (East Moreton) : Min­ Bill, 18. isterial Changes (Privilege), 177, 182.­ Lunatic Asylum, W oogaroo, 126. Ministerial Announcement, 191. Cumkillenbar Run, the, Question of Privilege, 127. MACKEKZIE, 'l'he Honorable RoBERT R \.J\[SAY (Bu1·nett) : Address in Reply to Opening Despatch relating to Petition for Governor's Re­ Speech, 21, 103. - Question of Privilege moval, 164. (the Cumkillcnbar Run), 135.-Ministerial Diseases Bill, Prevention of Contagious, 127. Changes (Privilege), 176, 179.-Ministerial Drainage and Sewerage of Towns Bill, 3. Announcement, 191. Marriage Laws Amendment and Consolidation Explanation, Ministerial, Message from the Bill, 18. Governor, and Prorogation of Parliament, Meeting of Parliament, 1, 18. 200. Members of Parliament, Payments out of Public Moneys to, 168. FITZ, The Honorable HENRY BATES : Address Message from the Goyernor, Ministerial Explana· in reply to Opening Speech, 12, 16, 65.­ tion, and Prorogation of Parliament, 197, :lOO. Ministerial Announcement, 190.-Ministerial Explanation, Me,sage from the Governor, MILES, WILLIAilf, Esquire p1am,oa) : Changes and Prorogation of Parliament, 199. in the Public Service, 171, 172. FITZSIM}fONS, CHARLES, Esquire (Roclckcvmpton): Mineralogical and Geological Survey, 162. Address in reply to Opening Speech, 28, 118. Ministerial Announcements, 190. -Question of Privilege (Cumkillenbar Run), Ministerial Changes (Privilege), 176. 134, 150.-Payments out of Public Moneys Ministerial Explanation, Message from the Gov­ to Members of Parliament, 169.-Changes ernor, and Prorogation of Parlimnent, 197, in the Public Service, 171.-Ministerial 200. Announcement, 196. Ministerial Statement, 125. FoRBES, FREDERICK AuGUSTUS, Esquire (War­ _;l.fonetary Condition of the Colony, 150. rego) : Address in reply to Opening Speech, Moneys, Payments to Members of Parliament out 103, 120.-Quc,tion of Privilege (the Cum­ killenbar Run), 137.-Monetary Condition of Public, 168. of the Colony, 154.-Despatch relating to Opening Speech, Address in Reply of Council to, Petition for Governor's Removal, 167. 3, 31, 53. Opening Speech, Address in Reply of Assembly Geological and Mineralogical Survey, 162. to, 18, 32, 74, 109. Gmno:N, The Honorable JA:>IES: .Address in Opening Speech, Addresses in Reply to, Presen­ reply to Opening Speech, 18, 54. tation of, 125, 127. GoVERNOR, His Excellency the, Opens the Session, l. P ALMER, ARTRUR HuNTER, Esquire (Port Curtis): Goyernor, Message from the, Ministerial Explana­ Address in Reply to Opening Speech, 102, tion, and Prorogation of Parliament, 197, 200. 109.-Question of Priyilege (the Cumkil­ Governor's Removal, Despatch relating to Petition lenbar Run) 133. - Ministerial Changes for, 164. (Privilege), 176. Parliament, Meeting of, 1, 18. HARRIS, The Honorable GEORGE: Address in Parliament, Payments out of Public Moneys to reply to Opening Speech, 61.-Ministerial Announcement, 190. Members of, 168. Parliament, Prorogation of, Ministerial Explana· HEUSSLER, The Honorable J OITN CHRISTIAN: tion, and Message from the GoYernor, 197, Address in reply to Opening Speech, 6, 7. 200. HoBBS, The Honorable WILLIAM: Address in Payments out of Public Moneys to Members of reply to Opening Speech, 3, 72. Parliament, 168. HOPE, The Honorable Lours : Address in reply Petition for Governor's Removal, Despatch relat­ to Opening Speech, 58. ing to, 164. LAiiiB, EDWARD, Esquire (Mitchell): Address in PoSTiiiASTEn-GENERAL, The Honorable ST. GEORGE Reply to Opening Speech, 107.-Moneta:ry RICHARD GonE : Sewerage and Drainage of Condition of the Colony, 155.-Paymcnts out Towns Bill, 3.--Acldrcss in Reply to Opening INDEX. 3

Speech, 11, 16, 31, 53, 63, 71.-Ministerial Public Sernce, Changes in the, 170. Statement, 125, 126.-Prevention of Conta­ PUGH, THEOPHILUS PA.RSO:NS, Esqui1•e (Nortk gious Disea;es Bill, 127.-Ministerial An· Brisbane) : Address in Reply to Opening nounccment, 190.-Ministerial Explanation, Speech, 117.-Qucstion of Privilege (the Message from the Governor, and Prorogation Cumkillenbar Run), 129, 134·.-Despc,tch of Parliament, 197, 199, 200. Relatino- to Petition for Governor's Rcmov,tl, Presentation of Adchesses in -Reply to Opening 164, 1B7.-Chrmges in the Public Service, Speech, 125, 127. 174.-Ministerial Changes (Pririlcgc), 178, PRESIDEKT, The Honorablo MA.URICE CHARLES 188.-Ministcrial Announcement, 191. O'CONNELL : Roads Yice-Regal Speech on Question of Privilege (the Cnmkillenbar Run), Opening of Parliament, 3.-Until Address 127. disposed of not competent for Member to move Amendment, 11.-No Amendment may RA.FF, GEORGE, Esquire (Nortk Brisbane) : Ad· be moved after Question put that Address dress in reply to Opening Speech, 26, 80.­ be agreed to, 53.- Amendment allowed and Question of Privilege (the Cmnkillenbm· Question put, notwithstanding difficulty of Run), 135.- Monetary Condition of the Standing Orders, 59.-Acquaints House with Colony, 157, 160.-Dc'spatch relating to Presentation of Address in reply to Opening Petition for Governor's Removal, 165.­ Speech, and reads Governor's Reply, 125.­ Ministorial Changes (Privilege), 179. Debate on Ministerial Explanation irregular, REED, GEORGE MCuLLOUGH, Esquire (Ipswich) : 126.-Not competent for Member to move Aclc1rcds in reply to Opening Speech, 19, 21. Acljournmcnt of House twice in succemsion, Geological and Mincralogic>1l Survey, 162. 127.-Standing Orders with respect to Mes· Removal, Despatch relating to Petition for Gov· sages from Governor, 198.-Minister charged ernor's, 164. with J\'l:essage from Governor must appear at Reply to Opening Speech, Address in, 3, 18, 31, the Bar of the House, 199.-Excellency's 32, 53, 7-i, 109. J\fessage, in 1rhatever manner presented, Reply to Opening Speech, Addresses in Presenta· must be immediately read, and all other tion of, 125, 127. business suspended, 199.-0rclers that Mes· sage from Governor must, in accordance Rulings from the Chair: (Vide " PRESIDENT" with resolution of Council, be presented by and " SPEAKER.") Minister, as required by Standing Orders, Run, the Cumkillenbar, Question of Privilege, 127. 199.-Unusual for Member of Opposition to SECRETARY FOR LANDS AND 'WoRKS: (Vide move when J\fessage from Governor shall be " SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC LA.KDS.") considered, 200.-Guided by rule that pro­ duction of Message from Governor stops all SECRETARY FOR PuBLIC LANDS, The Honorable other proceedings, and reads Message Pro­ JoSHUA. PECEER BELL (1Vest }l!foreton) : Ad· roguing Parliament, 200.-Declares House dress in reply to Opening Speech, 100.­ Prorogued, 200. Question of Privilege (the Cumkillcnbar Run), 127, 129, 130, 135, 130.-Geological Prevention of Contagious Diseases Bill, 127. ancl Mineralogical Survey, 163.-Dcspatch PRI:NG, The Honorable RA.TCLIFFE (Burnett) : relating to Petition for Governor's removal, Adchess in reply to Opening Speech, 31, 32. 166.-lYiinisterial Changes (Privilege), 176, -Question of Privilege (the Cumkillenbar 179, 185.-Ministerial·Announcemcnt, 192. Run), 128, 132.-Monetary conclition of the SECRETARY FOR PunLIC WoRKS, The Honorable Colony, 157.--Ministcrial Changes (Privilege), JoHN DouGLAS (Eastern IJou•ns): Minis­ 176, 177, 178, 183, 186.-Ministerial An· terial Changes (Privilege), 176, 182, 185­ nouncement, 194.-Ministerial Explanation, CVide "CoLONIAL TREASURER"). Message from the Governor, and Prorogation of Parliament, 202, 203. Service, Changes in the Public, 170. PRIOR, 'I.'he Honorable 'l'HOliiA.S LoDGE MURRA.Y : Sewerage and Drainage of Towns Bill, 3. Address in Reply to Opening Speech, 16, 69. SPEAKER, The Honorable GILBERT ELIOTT (Wide Privilege, Ministerial Changes, 176. Bay): Reads Opening Speech, 18.-Not competent for Member, having spoken in Privilege, Question of, (the Cumkillenbar Run), Debate, to move Acljournment, 102.--Irregular 127. in comse of Speech to put question to Prorogation of Parliament, Ministerial Explana· Minister, 107.-Acquaints House with Pre· tion, Message from the Governor, and, 197, sentation of Address in reply to Opening 200. Speech, and reads Governor's reply, 127.­ Public Moneys, Payments out of, to Members of M:ember cannot refer to Speech in other Parliament, 168. branch of Legislature, 128, 129 > but may 4 INDEX.

refer to paragruph in newspapm•, 130, 134.­ question of Order, 202.-Quotes Constitu­ Motion without notice objectionable, 132.­ tion Act as to dissolution of Pitrliament by Precedent, when complaint made against Proclamation, 202.- Governor cannot, in newspaper, deviated from, 137.-Question as terms of Constitution Act, Prorogue Parliit­ to word " now" being used in motion for ment by Proclitmation;-leaves it to House calling witnesses to bar of House, 137, 139. to determine present question, 203.-Reitds -To name member of other House or bring Proclanmtion of Prorogation, 203. charge against him, irregular, 138; but mem­ Speech, Address in reply of Council to Opening, ber ofotherHouse maybe named in co~nection 3, 31, 53. with remarks in newspaper, 13S.-Ne.ver Speech, Address in reply of Assembly to Opening, again take motion not put in writing, 139.­ 18, 32, 74, 109. Motion to set aside affirmative resolution Speech, Adclrc'lses in reply to Opening, Presenta­ cannot be put, 139, 140.-Motion submitted tion of, 125, 127. in writing not legible, 139.-Practice in Stittement, Ministerial, 125. cxaminittion of witnesses itt bm• of House STEPHENS, TnmHS BLACKET, Esquire (South 139, 140.-Not bound to give advice to Mem~ Brisbane): Question of Privilege (the Cum· bn·s, 14.0.-For House to decide as to what is killenbar Run), 137. a Que;tion, 140.-" Equivocating" itn impro­ Survey, Geological and Mineralogical, 162. per expression, 142.-Irregular for Member to cheer it witness at bm· of House, 142.-Ques­ TTIORNTON, The Honorable vVILLIAM: Address be tions, in exa1nination of ·witnesses, n1ust in reply to Opening Speech, 55, 67. confined as determined by House, 142.­ Towns, Sewerage and Drainage of, Bill, 3. Re·h·icts Thfcmbcr in examination of witness to question before the House, 147.-Instructs Vice-Regal Speech, 1, 18, witness to retire, 149.-Member out of order in addre-;sing the House when no question vVALSH, WILLIAM HENRY, Esquire (Mary­ before it, 150.-Cmmot allow member to borouylt) : Address in reply to Opening proceed in addressing House without sub­ Speech, 29, 53, 74, 88.-Question of Privilege mitting motion, 150.-Only pn,pm·s laid (the Cumkillenbar R.un), 128, 129, 136.­ on Table should be reitd to the House Dcspatch relating to Petition for Governor's 152. - Pitpers sought for should onl; Removal, 165.-Changes in the Public Service, be those of a public nature, 165.-Con­ 171, 172.-Ministeriitl Changes (Privilege) versfltions not to be crtrried on AO rts to 180.-Ministerial Announcement, 192, 193.­ interrupt members addressing House, 169.­ Ministerial Explanation, Mracant during Announcement, 196. sitting of House, when Parliament is in WIENHOLT, ARNOJ,D, Esquire (Warwick): Pay­ Session, 178.-Motion to call Minister to ba1· ments out of Public Moneys to Members of of Ilouse for examination as witness, not to Parliament, 169.- Changes in the Public be put without notice, 193.-Resolution to call witnesses to bar without previous notice Service, 17 4. of motion not nccording to Parliament~ry WooD, The Honorable vVESTERN: Address in Practice, 193.-vVhcn Members can speitk reply to Opening Speech, 7, 31, 32, 53, 70, rtfter Member has replied, 196.-Message 71.-Ministerial Statement, 126.-vVoogaroo from Governor, mistake in mode of deli­ Lunatic Asylum, 126.-Prevention of Con­ vcring it, and Message not delivered in tagious Diseases Bill, 127.-Ministerial An· mode prescribed by Standing Orders, 202. nouncement, 190.-1\finisterial Explitnation, -Messrtgc must be r<'ncl before point of :Message from the Governor, and Prorogation order can be 1·aised, 202. - Reads :Mcs­ of Parliament, 198, 199, 200. sage, 202.--Leaves it to House to decide Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum, 126.

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