Victoria University of Wellington Library
The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 12
Contents
Contents
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Calling of the Convention
1
Meeting of the Convention and List of Delegates
3
Resolutions Finally Adopted as the Basis of a Land Bill Likely to Satisfy the Country
6
Discussions and Divisions on the Foregoing Resolutions
8 to 18
Extract from Gibbon Wakefield
9
Extract from Mr. Westgarth
10
Mr. Wingfield's Evidence on the Land System of the United States—Embracing—
11 to 17
Free Selection for the actual cultivator
11
The pasturage of all unsold Land free to the public
12
Bringing the Land "into market"
13
Settlers beyond surveys
14
Facilities for rapid surveys in Victoria, and probable cost
15
Sites of towns and cities
16
Extract from Sydney Smith, on the System of Free Pasturage in America
17
Interview with Mr. Haines (Chief Secretary
)
18
Interview with the Parliamentary Minority
19
Memorial to the House of Assembly
22
Protest Against the Bill
23
Immigration at the Public Expense
24
Parliamentary Reform
24
Mining on Private Property Bill
25
The Chinese
26
Report of Finance Committee
20
Council of the Convention to Sit in Melbourne
27
Local Leagues in Connection with the Convention
27
Adjournment of the Convention
27
Final Fate of the Bill.—Postscript
28
Appendix.—Mr. Haines' Speech at Geelong, In 1852
30