. 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. untry and Commonwealth. We ask this in the nameof Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. Amen. These were followed by the Lords Prayer. Proclamation of the Constitution. Up to this stage the Governor-General had stood, butwhen Mr. E. G. Blackmore, Clerk of the South AustralianLegislative Assembly, stepped forward to read the Queensproclamation of the Constitution,
. 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. untry and Commonwealth. We ask this in the nameof Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. Amen. These were followed by the Lords Prayer. Proclamation of the Constitution. Up to this stage the Governor-General had stood, butwhen Mr. E. G. Blackmore, Clerk of the South AustralianLegislative Assembly, stepped forward to read the Queensproclamation of the Constitution, his Excellency sat Blackmore then read the proclamation as follows :— Whereas by an Act of Parliament passed in the sixty-third and sixty-fourth years of our reign, intituled, An Act toconstitute the Commonwealth of Australia, it is enacted thatit shall be lawful for the Queen, with the advice of the PrivyCouncil, to declare, by proclamation, that on and after a daytherein appointed, not being later than one year after thepassing of this Act, the people of New South Wales, Victoria,South Australia, Queensland, and Tasmania, and also, if her FEDERATION STORES 546, 540i, 54S iconic St., S\>bne^ (Opposite Town TTnll).. I the federation stores BHP* PP^ S^6
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