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Time Line
Law & Regulations
The First Twenty Years

1851 1852 1853 1854
1855 1856 1857 1858 1859
1860 1861 1862 1863 1864
1865 1866 1867 1868 1869
1870 1871

22 May 1851 Goldfield Proclamation
23rd May 1851 Licences to Dig for Gold and Search for Gold
5 Aug 1851 Additional Gold Regulations
7 Oct 1851 Additional Gold Regulations
21 Oct 1851 Gold Regulations
21 Oct 1851 Gold Values
18 Nov 1851 Gold Regulations
25 Nov 1851 Additional Gold Regulations

16 Jan 1852 Additional Gold Regulations
24 Feb 1852 Location of the Commissioners Camp
24 Feb 1852 Location of the Commissioners Camp
27 Feb 1852 Courts of Petty Sessions Established
27 Feb 1852 Gold Receipts
5 Mar 1852 Reservoirs for Washing Gold
5 Mar 1852 Further Gold Regulations
12 Mar 1852 Gold Receipts
26 Mar 1852 Granting of Publicans General Licences
2 Apr 1852 Gold Regulations, Amended Code of Regulations
5 May 1852 Appointment of Patrick BOGUE, Esquire, as a Magistrate
8 May 1852 Court Activities and Adminstration in Tambaroora
14 May 1852 Sale of Beer in Dirt Holes Creek
27 May 1852 Appointment of James BUCHANAN as Clerk of Petty Sessions
29 May 1852 Incident between Mr. McEACHERN and the Police
27 Jul 1852 Appointment as Inspector of Slaughter Houses
27 Jul 1852 Additional Gold Regulations
6 Aug 1852 Appointment as Inspector of Distilleries
11 Dec 1852 Proposed Fight at Dirt Hole Creek
21 Dec 1852 An Act for the Regulation of the Police Force

25 Jan 1853 Appointment of Clerk of Petty Sessions
2 Feb 1853 Proclamation for Gold Fields
25 Feb 1853 Appointment of Registrar of the Court of Requests
4 Mar 1853 Tenders for Supplies
19 Apr 1853 Annual Licencing Meeting
25 Mar 1853 Public Pound Established
29 Apr 1853 Table of Rates - Trespass of Stock
1 Jul 1853 Tenders for Provisions
22 Jul 1853 Resignation and Appointment of a Poundkeeper
9 Aug 1853 Transfer of Publicans Licenses
16 Aug 1853 Appointment of Inspector of Weights and Measures
19 Aug 1853 Table of Rates for Trepass of Stock

14 Mar 1854 Annual Licensing Meeting
7 Jul 1854 Auctioneers District Licenses Granted
29 Dec 1854 Appointment of Police Magistrate

1855 No Data

1856 No Data

21 Jan 1857 Appointment of Gold Receiver and Sub-Commissioner of Crown Lands

19 Feb 1858 Appointment of Inspector of Weights and Measures and Slaughter Houses
and Bailiff of the Small Debts Court
20 Mar 1858 Disturbance between Chinese and Europeans
29 Mar 1858 Petition to Establish a Local Court

16 Aug 1859 Birth, Deaths and Marriage Registration District
16 Dec 1859 Site Fixed Upon for a Town to be called Tambaroora

11 Jun 1860 Tenders for Telegraph Line from Bathurst to Mudgee via Tambaroora
17 Aug 1860 Site Fixed Upon for a Village called Forbes (Hill End)
20 Oct 1860 Land Sale at the Police Office, Tambaroora

10 Apr 1861 Land Sale at the Police Office, Tambaroora
7 Aug 1861 Tenders for Watch-House
9 Aug 1861 Tender for the Erection of a Watchhouse
18 Oct 1861 Crown Land Alienation Act, 1861, Clause 8

9 May 1862Name Changed from Forbes to Hill End

1863 No Data

1864 No Data

29 Sep 1865 Appointment as Inspector of Slaughter-Houses

1866 No Data

1867 No Data

1868 No Data

31 Aug 1869 Appointment of Mining Registrar

1870 No Data

1871 No Data