Cover image for Letterbook of Despatches sent to the Secretary of State on Matters relating to the Federal Council.
Series:
Letterbook of Despatches sent to the Secretary of State on Matters relating to the Federal Council.
Series Number:
Access:
Open
Start Date:
07 Jan 1890
End Date:
15 Jan 1899
Creating Agency:
01 Jan 1825
Series notes:
For information relating to the origins and functions of the Federal Council, see under GO10; the despatches copied into this letterbook are the colonial counterpart to that series. The Act establishing the Council provided that the Governor of the host Colony should summon and prorogue the Council; it met at Hobart in January of 1891, 1892, 1895 and 1896, and many of these communications relate to the arrangements for the meetings. They are numbered from 1 under the mark "Federal Council", and sometimes enclosures are copied. Copies of despatches to other Governors on these matters are included.

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