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The Proclamation of Queensland document, 10 December 1859

Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

The original Proclamation publicly read by Sir George Ferguson Bowen’s acting private secretary Abram Moriarty at Government House in Adelaide Street, officially proclaiming Queensland as a separate colony from New South Wales. It was co-signed by Sir Robert Herbert, Bowen’s colonial secretary who became the the first Premier of Queensland in 1860.

It reads:

Proclamation

By His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight,
Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael
and St. George, Captain-General and Governor-in-chief of
the Colony of Queensland and its Dependencies, and
Vice-Admiral of the Same.

etc etc etc

Whereas Her Majesty has been graciously pleased, by
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster,
the Sixth day of June, in the twenty-second year of
Her Majesty’s Reign, to separate from the Colony of
New South Wales, the Territory described in the said
Letters Patent, and to erect the same into a separate Colony
to

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