. From colony to commonwealth, being a brief history of federation. Together with a record of the festivities and ceremonies which took place in the city of Sydney on the occasion of the proclamation of the Commonwealth in January, 1901. CDQ ?LU z < I-_l<_J ooo CO zo CO z < -3 UJ E CQ < CO C3 ^ LUCO FROM COLONY TO COMMONWEALTH. SI. 82 FROM COLOXV TO COMMONWEALTH. Majesty is satisfied that the people of Western x\ustraHahave agreed thereto, of Western AustraHa, shall be united ina Federal Commonwealth under the name of the Common-wealth of Australia. And whereas we are satisfied tha
. From colony to commonwealth, being a brief history of federation. Together with a record of the festivities and ceremonies which took place in the city of Sydney on the occasion of the proclamation of the Commonwealth in January, 1901. CDQ ?LU z < I-_l<_J ooo CO zo CO z < -3 UJ E CQ < CO C3 ^ LUCO FROM COLONY TO COMMONWEALTH. SI. 82 FROM COLOXV TO COMMONWEALTH. Majesty is satisfied that the people of Western x\ustraHahave agreed thereto, of Western AustraHa, shall be united ina Federal Commonwealth under the name of the Common-wealth of Australia. And whereas we are satisfied that the people ofWestern Australia have agreed thereto accordingly. We therefore, by and with the advice of our PrivyCouncil, have thought fit to issue this our Roval proclamation,and we do hereby declare that on and after the first day otJanuary, one thousand nine hundred and one, the people ofNew South Wales, Mctoria, South Australia, Queensland,Tasmania, and Western Australia shall be united in a FederalCommonwealth under the name of the Commonwealth ofAustralia. Given at our Court at Balmoral, this seventeenth dayof September, in the year of oar Lord one thousand ninehundred, and in the sixty-fourth year of our reign. God save the Queen. Letters Patent. The next document read was the Letters Patent, asfollows : — Letters Patent pas
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