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        <titleproper encodinganalog="title">Political Appointments etc. &amp; Federation</titleproper>
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        <publisher encodinganalog="publisher">Private Deposit Collection : University of Tasmania Library Special and Rare Collections</publisher>
        <address>
          <addressline>Level 5, Morris Miller Library, Sandy Bay Campus, University of Tasmania</addressline>
          <addressline>Sandy Bay</addressline>
          <addressline>Tasmania</addressline>
          <addressline>7005</addressline>
          <addressline>Telephone: +613 6226 2243</addressline>
          <addressline>Email: Special.Collections@utas.edu.au</addressline>
          <addressline>http://www.utas.edu.au/library/research/special-and-rare-collections</addressline>
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        <date normal="2017-01-16" encodinganalog="date">2017-01-16</date>
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      <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Political Appointments etc. &amp; Federation</unittitle>
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        26 items    </physdesc>
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        <corpname>Private Deposit Collection : University of Tasmania Library Special and Rare Collections</corpname>
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          <addressline>Level 5, Morris Miller Library, Sandy Bay Campus, University of Tasmania</addressline>
          <addressline>Sandy Bay</addressline>
          <addressline>Tasmania</addressline>
          <addressline>7005</addressline>
          <addressline>Telephone: +613 6226 2243</addressline>
          <addressline>Email: Special.Collections@utas.edu.au</addressline>
          <addressline>http://www.utas.edu.au/library/research/special-and-rare-collections</addressline>
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      <note type="generalNote">
        <p>Official documents, addresses  and despatches</p>
      </note>
      <note type="generalNote">
        <p>See also C- Correspondence  &amp;  F- Essays and Speeches </p>
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      <p>Published</p>
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      <p>Index available at:<lb/>http://eprints.utas.edu.au/17004/1/a_i_clarkindex.pdf</p>
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          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Appointment as Member of Executive Council</unittitle>
          <unitid encodinganalog="3.1.1" countrycode="AU" repositorycode="TAS UTAS SPARC">C4-E-1</unitid>
          <unitdate normal="0/0" encodinganalog="3.1.3">29 Mar. 1887</unitdate>
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        parchment, wafer seal of Colony    </physdesc>
        </did>
        <odd type="publicationStatus">
          <p>Published</p>
        </odd>
      </c>
      <c level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Attorney General of Tasmania 14 Apr. 1894 Letters patent of appointment, parchment, wafer seal of Colony with covering letter</unittitle>
          <unitid encodinganalog="3.1.1" countrycode="AU" repositorycode="TAS UTAS SPARC">C4-E-2</unitid>
          <unitdate normal="0/0" encodinganalog="3.1.3">1894</unitdate>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">
        1 parchment doc, 1 paper    </physdesc>
        </did>
        <odd type="publicationStatus">
          <p>Published</p>
        </odd>
      </c>
      <c level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Purchase of Main Line of Railway</unittitle>
          <unitid encodinganalog="3.1.1" countrycode="AU" repositorycode="TAS UTAS SPARC">C4-E-3</unitid>
          <unitdate normal="0/0" encodinganalog="3.1.3">1890</unitdate>
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        parchment doc. ,wafer seal of Colony    </physdesc>
          <note type="generalNote">
            <p>Warrant from R. G. C. Hamilton empowering A.I. Clark to act on behalf of the Colony of Tasmania in London</p>
          </note>
        </did>
        <odd type="publicationStatus">
          <p>Published</p>
        </odd>
      </c>
      <c level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Title of "Honourable" conferred for life </unittitle>
          <unitid encodinganalog="3.1.1" countrycode="AU" repositorycode="TAS UTAS SPARC">C4-E-4</unitid>
          <unitdate normal="0/0" encodinganalog="3.1.3">14 Sept. 1894 </unitdate>
        </did>
        <odd type="publicationStatus">
          <p>Published</p>
        </odd>
      </c>
      <c level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Oath of Allegiance </unittitle>
          <unitid encodinganalog="3.1.1" countrycode="AU" repositorycode="TAS UTAS SPARC">C4-E-5</unitid>
          <unitdate normal="0/0" encodinganalog="3.1.3">25 Jan 1895 </unitdate>
        </did>
        <odd type="publicationStatus">
          <p>Published</p>
        </odd>
      </c>
      <c level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Address from Municipal Council of Glamorgan</unittitle>
          <unitid encodinganalog="3.1.1" countrycode="AU" repositorycode="TAS UTAS SPARC">C4-E-6</unitid>
          <unitdate normal="0/0" encodinganalog="3.1.3">10 Aug. 1895</unitdate>
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        paper, seal: red wax, applied    </physdesc>
          <note type="generalNote">
            <p>Address to mark A.I. Clark's fIrst visit as Attorney-General along the East Coast</p>
          </note>
        </did>
        <odd type="publicationStatus">
          <p>Published</p>
        </odd>
      </c>
      <c level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Resignation as Attorney-General</unittitle>
          <unitid encodinganalog="3.1.1" countrycode="AU" repositorycode="TAS UTAS SPARC">C4-E-7-8</unitid>
          <unitdate normal="0/0" encodinganalog="3.1.3">28 Oct. 1897</unitdate>
          <note type="generalNote">
            <p>Acknowledgments from Premier and governor. </p>
          </note>
        </did>
        <odd type="publicationStatus">
          <p>Published</p>
        </odd>
      </c>
      <c level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Letters patent appointing A.I. Clark Acting Governor in the absence of Chief Justice Stokell Dodds</unittitle>
          <unitid encodinganalog="3.1.1" countrycode="AU" repositorycode="TAS UTAS SPARC">C4-E-9</unitid>
          <unitdate normal="0/0" encodinganalog="3.1.3">1 May 1901</unitdate>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">
        parchment, large    </physdesc>
        </did>
        <odd type="publicationStatus">
          <p>Published</p>
        </odd>
      </c>
      <c level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Powers of Governor and Acting Governor 1871 - 1900 Copy of despatch by Sir Francis Smith (1871), instructions for Sir J. H. Lefroy (1880) and Commission (1900)</unittitle>
          <unitid encodinganalog="3.1.1" countrycode="AU" repositorycode="TAS UTAS SPARC">C4-E-10-12</unitid>
          <unitdate normal="0/0" encodinganalog="3.1.3">1871-1900</unitdate>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">
        3 papers    </physdesc>
        </did>
        <odd type="publicationStatus">
          <p>Published</p>
        </odd>
      </c>
      <c level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Federal Council of Australia</unittitle>
          <unitid encodinganalog="3.1.1" countrycode="AU" repositorycode="TAS UTAS SPARC">C4-E-13-14</unitid>
          <unitdate normal="0/0" encodinganalog="3.1.3">1888 &amp; 1894</unitdate>
          <note type="generalNote">
            <p>A.I. Clark appointed as representative 3 Jan. 1888, 12 June 1894</p>
          </note>
        </did>
        <odd type="publicationStatus">
          <p>Published</p>
        </odd>
      </c>
      <c level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Representation of Tasmania at the Federal Council</unittitle>
          <unitid encodinganalog="3.1.1" countrycode="AU" repositorycode="TAS UTAS SPARC">C4-E-15</unitid>
          <unitdate normal="0/0" encodinganalog="3.1.3">1887-1888</unitdate>
          <note type="generalNote">
            <p>Correspondence, memorandum, minutes. Printed Parliamentary Paper</p>
          </note>
        </did>
        <odd type="publicationStatus">
          <p>Published</p>
        </odd>
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      <c level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Australian Federation Conference</unittitle>
          <unitid encodinganalog="3.1.1" countrycode="AU" repositorycode="TAS UTAS SPARC">C4-E-16</unitid>
          <unitdate normal="0/0" encodinganalog="3.1.3">1890</unitdate>
          <note type="generalNote">
            <p>Proceedings and debates, official record. Inscribed "A.I. Clark representative of Tasmania at Conference at Parliament House, Melbourne"</p>
          </note>
        </did>
        <odd type="publicationStatus">
          <p>Published</p>
        </odd>
      </c>
      <c level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">National Australasian Convention</unittitle>
          <unitid encodinganalog="3.1.1" countrycode="AU" repositorycode="TAS UTAS SPARC">C4-E-17</unitid>
          <unitdate normal="0/0" encodinganalog="3.1.3">2 Mar. 1891</unitdate>
          <note type="generalNote">
            <p>To consider a report upon an adequate scheme for a Federal Constitution: roll of delegates, one copy bound and containing complete signatures, another copy missing some signatures, unbound. (Printed papers, Govt. Printer, Melbourne) </p>
          </note>
        </did>
        <odd type="publicationStatus">
          <p>Published</p>
        </odd>
      </c>
      <c level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Amendment to draft bill to constitute the Commonwealth of Australia</unittitle>
          <unitid encodinganalog="3.1.1" countrycode="AU" repositorycode="TAS UTAS SPARC">C4-E-18</unitid>
          <unitdate normal="0/0" encodinganalog="3.1.3">1891</unitdate>
          <note type="generalNote">
            <p>Rough note </p>
          </note>
        </did>
        <odd type="publicationStatus">
          <p>Published</p>
        </odd>
      </c>
      <c level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Draft Federation Bill</unittitle>
          <unitid encodinganalog="3.1.1" countrycode="AU" repositorycode="TAS UTAS SPARC">C4-E-19</unitid>
          <unitdate normal="0/0" encodinganalog="3.1.3">1891</unitdate>
          <note type="generalNote">
            <p>A.I. Clark's draft of a "Bill for the Federation of the Australian Colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia and the Province of South Australia, and the government thereof, for the purposes connected therewith". Confidential draft, printed (Government Printer, Hobart) Also photocopy of bill including amendments made by the Convention Drafting Committee (Griffiths, King, Clark) from Dixson Library (presented by Prof.Alex. Castles (1991) </p>
          </note>
        </did>
        <odd type="publicationStatus">
          <p>Published</p>
        </odd>
      </c>
      <c level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Further observations on the assumption of the debts of the states of the Commonwealth</unittitle>
          <unitid encodinganalog="3.1.1" countrycode="AU" repositorycode="TAS UTAS SPARC">C4-E-20</unitid>
          <unitdate encodinganalog="3.1.3">n.d</unitdate>
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        typescript    </physdesc>
        </did>
        <odd type="publicationStatus">
          <p>Published</p>
        </odd>
      </c>
      <c level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Australasian Federation, the fmancial data of the problem</unittitle>
          <unitid encodinganalog="3.1.1" countrycode="AU" repositorycode="TAS UTAS SPARC">C4-E-21</unitid>
          <unitdate normal="0/0" encodinganalog="3.1.3">1891</unitdate>
          <note type="generalNote">
            <p>Prepared by R.M. Johnston with an introduction by A.I. Clark. (Printed pamphlet: Govt. Printer, Hobart) </p>
          </note>
        </did>
        <odd type="publicationStatus">
          <p>Published</p>
        </odd>
      </c>
      <c level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Debates on the draft Commonwealth Bill</unittitle>
          <unitid encodinganalog="3.1.1" countrycode="AU" repositorycode="TAS UTAS SPARC">C4-E-22</unitid>
          <unitdate normal="0/0" encodinganalog="3.1.3">21 July - 17 Aug. 1897</unitdate>
          <note type="generalNote">
            <p>Transcripts of the Tasmanian House of Assembly debates on the draft Constitution Bill adopted by the Adelaide Convention Aprii 1897, reprinted from the Mercury 1 (21-22 July), 4 (29 July), 5 (3 Aug.), 10 (12 Aug.), 12 (17 Aug.).</p>
          </note>
        </did>
        <odd type="publicationStatus">
          <p>Published</p>
        </odd>
      </c>
      <c level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">The Federal finance problem, further observations</unittitle>
          <unitid encodinganalog="3.1.1" countrycode="AU" repositorycode="TAS UTAS SPARC">C4-E-23</unitid>
          <unitdate normal="0/0" encodinganalog="3.1.3">1900</unitdate>
          <note type="generalNote">
            <p>R. M. Johnston, with an introductory note by A.I. Clark (Govt. Printer, Hobart) </p>
          </note>
        </did>
        <odd type="publicationStatus">
          <p>Published</p>
        </odd>
      </c>
      <c level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">The Federal financial problem and its solution</unittitle>
          <unitid encodinganalog="3.1.1" countrycode="AU" repositorycode="TAS UTAS SPARC">C4-E-24</unitid>
          <unitdate normal="0/0" encodinganalog="3.1.3">1900</unitdate>
          <note type="generalNote">
            <p>A.I. Clark 1900 (Govt. Printer, Hobart) </p>
          </note>
        </did>
        <odd type="publicationStatus">
          <p>Published</p>
        </odd>
      </c>
      <c level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act </unittitle>
          <unitid encodinganalog="3.1.1" countrycode="AU" repositorycode="TAS UTAS SPARC">C4-E-25</unitid>
          <unitdate normal="0/0" encodinganalog="3.1.3">1901</unitdate>
        </did>
        <odd type="publicationStatus">
          <p>Published</p>
        </odd>
      </c>
      <c level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Commonwealth Celebrations and miscellaneous</unittitle>
          <unitid encodinganalog="3.1.1" countrycode="AU" repositorycode="TAS UTAS SPARC">C4-E-26</unitid>
          <unitdate normal="0/0" encodinganalog="3.1.3">1891-1901</unitdate>
          <note type="generalNote">
            <p>Miscellaneous printed invitations, souvenirs, instructions to Governor General, etc. Also copies of The Commonwealth (organ of the Australasian Federation League) 1895 (8 Apr., 7 June, 7 Aug.). Also National Convention Banquet menu 2 Mar. 1891; "dinner to Sir Henry Parkes on entering his 80th year" 28 May 1894 (illuminated invitation); Clark &amp; Crisp Xmas card ND </p>
          </note>
        </did>
        <odd type="publicationStatus">
          <p>Published</p>
        </odd>
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