• Title
  Collection 20: Petition from citizens of Melbourne to the Lord Mayor of Melbourne, John Thomas Smith, concerning law and order
• Call number
  SAFE/D 356/vol. 20
  
• Level of description
  sub-fonds
• Date
  
  4 December 1854
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  1026985
• Issue Copy
  Microfilm : CY 1118, frames 608-616
  
• Physical Description
  0.05 metres of textual material (1 vol.) - silk
  
• Scope and Content
  Manuscript petition signed by Victorian parliamentarians and others, pasted on board, with accompanying list of signatories adhered to silk
  
  Transcription of petition:
  
  To the Right Worshipful [?] Mayor of Melbourne
  
  Sir
  We the undersigned inhabitants of Melbourne [?] the unsettled [?] of a portion of the diggings and the necessity of taking measures for the better protection of this City and upholding the cause of law and order hereby request your Worship to [?] a public meeting of the Citizens without delay for the above purpose
  
  [Signed]
  Henry Miller M.L.C.
  William Nicholson M.L.C.
  John Pascoe Fawkner M.L.C.
  Thomas Fulton. Engineer
  John Hodgson M.L.C.
  Augustus F. Greeves M.L.C.
  Frank Murphy M.L.C.
  John Stevenson
  George Annand M.L.C.
  
  Dec. 4th 1854.
  
  I hereby call a Public Meeting of the Citizens for the purpose above stated at the mechanics institution at one o'clock precisely on tomorrow Tuesday the 5th. December
  
  J.T. Smith
  Mayor
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
• General note
  
  This is volume 20 of a collection of 20 volumes of proclamations held at D 356/1-20.
  Preservation microfilm copy D 356/1-20 (CY 1118), made Oct. 1987
• Conservation note
  
  List of names on silk in disrepair
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Smith, John Thomas, 1816-1879
  
• Subject
  Petitions--Victoria.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE19995614

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