Sir Edmund Barton - Commonwealth of Australia draft bill with annotations, together with Thomas Rainsford Bavin's legal opinion of the Federal Constitution, 1897-1898

DLADD 504

fonds

1897-1898

949767

1 volume of textual material - 33 cm. - manuscript

Slip case labelled on spine Barton/Federation, containing manuscript and printed material concerning the proposed amendments to the Constitution Act.

1. Draft of a Bill to Constitute the Commonwealth of Australia: copy, framed and approved by the Australasian Federal Convention, at Adelaide, 22 March to 23 April 1897. A, as amended, September 1897. B, as reported a second time with further amendments, March 1898. The two versions are printed on facing pages, with manuscript notes and alterations.

2. Proposed amendments of Section 51, subsection 35 of the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act; opinion, dated Chambers, 17 May. Signed T.R. Bavin. J.V. Tillett, Crown Solicitors.

Information transferred from Dixson Manuscript Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012.