Given under my hand and the public seal of the said Province, at Adelaide, this ninth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and in the seventeenth year of Her Majesty’s reign.

By command, B. T. FINNISS, Colonial Secretary. God save the Queen!


Colonial Secretary’s Office, Adelaide, Nov. 9, 1853.

The margins of Lake Alexandrina and Lake Albert, and each bank of the River Murray, for two miles inland, having been constituted and proclaimed the “Hundred of the Murray in South Australia:”

Notice is hereby given that applications will be received by the Surveyor-General for the survey of sections on the said lands, in blocks of 10, 80, and 640 acres, according to the wishes of intending purchasers.

Access from the back lands to the water, and necessary roads for the convenience of the public, will be reserved in the usual manner.

Purchasers of land will have the customary privilege of commonage within the Hundred, according to the regulations.

By His Excellency’s command, B. T. FINNISS, Colonial Secretary.

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