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Book - Reference/Legal Statutes, John Ferres, Government Printer, The Victorian Imperial Statutes Vol 5 Customs Warrnambool, 1868
... deep-sea port handling the booming shipping trade of the Western District by exporting wool, wheat, and potatoes. Because it was an official port of entry, it had its own Customs House and local Sub-Collector of Customs. A copy of Volume 5 kept in Warrnambool would have been the literal rulebook used by local customs officers to enforce imperial maritime laws, collect duties on incoming British and international merchant ships, and regulate the harbour.
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This volume is part of the first comprehensive consolidation of laws for the Colony of Victoria after it separated from New South Wales and established its own parliament. Specifically, Volume 5 (published in 1868) is dedicated to "A selection of the imperial statutes apparently in force in Victoria". Because Victoria was still a British colony, laws passed by the British (Imperial) Parliament in Westminster still applied locally if they hadn't been superseded by local Victorian colonial acts. Volume 5 was the legal handbook used by lawyers, judges, and government officials to determine exactly which British laws still governed colonial matters, ranging from shipping and trade to criminal law and merchant customs.
The Victorian Statutes Vol 5 Customs Warrnambool
Publisher: John Ferres Government Printer Melbourne
Date: 1868
Further Information: Three quarter leather. Junction between front board and spine slightly exposed. Top section of leather on spine damaged. non-fictionThis volume is part of the first comprehensive consolidation of laws for the Colony of Victoria after it separated from New South Wales and established its own parliament. Specifically, Volume 5 (published in 1868) is dedicated to "A selection of the imperial statutes apparently in force in Victoria". Because Victoria was still a British colony, laws passed by the British (Imperial) Parliament in Westminster still applied locally if they hadn't been superseded by local Victorian colonial acts. Volume 5 was the legal handbook used by lawyers, judges, and government officials to determine exactly which British laws still governed colonial matters, ranging from shipping and trade to criminal law and merchant customs.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, book, pattison collection, warrnambool library, warrnambool mechanics’ institute, ralph eric pattison, corangamite regional library service, warrnambool city librarian, mechanics’ institute library, victorian library board, warrnambool books and records, warrnambool children’s library
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