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COMMISSIONS OF THE SEVEEAL REPRESENTATIVES. By His Excellency The Right Honorable Lord Augustus William Frederick Spencer " LISKtcJS- of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath a Member'of Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council, Governor and Commander-m-Cluef of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependencies. To The Honorable Alexander Stuart, Esquire, Colonial Secretary of the Colony of New South WalesGreeting : „ , . .., „,, Whereas it has been determined to hold a Conference of Representatives of the Colonies of New South Wiles, Victoria, New Zealand, South Australia, Queensland, Tasmania, Western A^ and F| which Conference is appointed to assemble in Sydney, in the said Colony of.New South Wale^ on t t twentv-ei-hth day of the present month of November, to consider the questions of federation ot the SSSobI, the Annexation or Protectorate of Islands in the Padhc SJ ( intercolonial interest with a view to mutual agreement on such questions to the common advantage ot the said WnLiAM Bede Slley to confer and deliberate with the other Representatives thereat assembling, and in leTxe^isf of yo^Toint judgment and discretion to execute in behalf of this Colony any agreement in h ma"ter s c Lye cited whil the Colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Western Australia, and Fiji may by their representative be prepared to <g»nte; and you are further authorized, in conjunction with the said George Richard Die, s^Esquire, «£*£££ William Bede Dalley, to enter upon the discussion of and to join in agreement upon any og^ matter relating to the aforesaid Colonies which may be submitted for the consideration of the afoiesaid Coherence. ' Given under my Hand and the Seal of the Colony, at Government House Sydney this twentyseventh day of November, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eightythree, and in the forty-seventh year of Her Majesty's Reign. LO FTUS. By His Excellency's Command, ALEX. STUART. Entered on record by me, in Register of Patents, No. 12, pages 33-4, this twenty-eighth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three. For the Colonial Secretary and Registrar of Records, Cbitchett Walkek, Principal Under Secretary.

WM. P. DRUMMOND JEPvVOIS, Governor. To the Honorable Harry Albert Atkinson, a Member of the Executive Council crf-fteJW^J^jf Zealand, and holding the office of Premier of the said Colony, and the Honorable Frederick Whitaker, a Member of the Legislative Council of the said Colony,— Greeting ; — „ Whereas a Conference is shdrtly to be held at Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales, of repreI atives from The ColoniL of Australasia, L the purpose of conf erring on~ atter^ importance affecting the said Colonies in common : And whereas it is expedient that the Colonj' <* Zealand should be represented thereat; Now therefore, I, William Francis Drummosd Jervois, the Governor

INTERCOLONIAL CONVENTION.