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The administration of Western Australia—the only colony to which convicts from Great Britain continue to be transported—is under a Governor appointed by the Crown, who is assisted by an Executive Council composed of certain office-holders, namely, the senior officer in command of the forces, the Colonial Secretary, the Comptroller-General of Convicts, the Surveyor-General, the Attorney-General, and the Treasurer and Collector of Internal Revenue. There is also a Legislative Council, composed, including the Governor, of six official and six unofficial members. The official members are the Governor, the Commander of the Forces, the Colonial Secretary, the Surveyor-General, the Attorney-General, and the Treasurer and Collector of Internal Revenue. The unofficial members were formerly appointed by the Crown, on the recommendation of the Governor, but are in future to be elected by the inhabitants of the colony.
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Statistical and other Books of Reference concerning Australasia
1. Official Publications
Reports showing the present state of Her Majesty’s Colonial Possessions. Presented to both Houses of Parliament. Despatches of the Governors of New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, South Australia, and Western Australia. Pol. London, 1869.
Statistical Tables relating to the Colonial and other Possessions of the United Kingdom. Part XII. Fol. London, 1868.
Statistical Abstract for the several Colonial and other Possessions of the United Kingdom in each year, from 1851 to 1867. No.,V. 8. London, 1869.
Annual Statement of the Trade and Navigation of the United Kingdom with Foreign Countries and British Possessions in the year 1868. 4. London, 1869.
Statistical Abstract for the United Kingdom, in each of the fifteen years from 1854 to 1868. No. XVI. 8. London, 1869.
Thirteenth Report of the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Customs, on the Customs. 8. London, 1869.
Twenty-ninth Report of the Emigration Commissioners. 8. London, 1869.
Papers relating to the Affairs of New Zealand. Presented to Parliament by command. London, 1866.
Correspondence respecting the Non-enactment of the Appropriation Act in Victoria. Presented to Parliament by command. London, 1866.
Further Correspondence relative to the non-enactment of the Appropriation Act in Victoria, and the recall of Governor Sir C. Darling. London, 1868.
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Statistical Register of New South Wales for the year 1867. Fol. Sydney, 1868.
Statistical Register of Queensland for the year 1868. Fol. Brisbane, 1869.
Third census of the Colony of Queensland, taken on the 2nd March 1868. Fol. Brisbane. 1869.
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Martin, F. (1870). Western Australia. In: The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230252998_49
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