Letters Patent and The Order-in-Council
The procedure for the founding of the South Australian province was unclear to the Board of Commissioners, so a Letters Patent was presented to the government, and with its adoption along with an Order-in-Council the foundation of the South Australian province was achieved.
Read more about this topic: European Settlement Of South Australia
Famous quotes containing the words letters and/or patent:
“This is the Night Mail crossing the Border,
Bringing the cheque and the postal order,
Letters for the rich, letters for the poor,
The shop at the corner, the girl next door.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“There is a patent office at the seat of government of the universe, whose managers are as much interested in the dispersion of seeds as anybody at Washington can be, and their operations are infinitely more extensive and regular.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)