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23 June 75
Mnisters Sec'y
Re payment of interest
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Adelaide 23rd June 1875
My dear Sir
I have made inquiry about the correspondence on payment of interest and find it is with the Law Officers of the Crown, it is promised to be returned this week.
I am
dear Sir
yours truly
_ DeMole

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1/7/75
Read: 30/7/75
Minute book p83
Minister offering 4 blocks as per plan
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Office of the Minister
of Agriculture & Education
Adelaide 1st July 1875
No 84/75
Sir
In reply to your letter, dated 9th Instant No. 95/75 relating to the blocks of land, offered by the Hon. the Commissioner of Crown Lands, to the Council of the University of Adelaide, an intimation of the acceptance of which was notified in your letter dated 16th March No. 48/75, and referring to a subsequent interview between some of the Members of the Council of the University, and that Minister, regarding the quality of the land offered, and the probability of some other land being substituted, I have the honour, by direction of
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the Hon. the Minister of Agriculture and Education, to state that it is now proposed to grant to the University, four blocks of land, as per plan herewith, which the Surveyor General reports, contain land of fair, average and superior quality and that only a small portion is of inferior character.
As soon as the Council of the University communicates their acceptance of the above mentioned blocks, the necessary surveys of roads and ___, shall at once be made, prior to the preparation of the land grants.
I have the honor
to be
Sir
your obedient Servant
_ DeMole

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12/7/75
Re: Grant of Site
Read: 30/7/75
Minute book p84
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Adelaide, 12th July 1875
No. 92(?)/75
Sir
In reply to your letter dated 9th Instant, relative to the, Grant of the site, for the University being prepared, I have the honor to inform you that the matter is still under the consideration of the Law Officers of the Crown.
I have the honor
to be
Sir
your obedient Servant
_ DeMole

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16/7/75
Receipt of amount reported.
Minute book for Annual grant
Balance (793-3) of grant for 1874-5
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July 16th 1875
No. 97/75
Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 4th ulto(?), requesting payment of interest to the 30th June 1875, on £40,000, at five per cent. I have the honor to state an amount of £793.3 has been passed by Audit office & now awaits payment at Treasury.
I have the honor to be
Sir
Your obedt. Servt
_ DeMole
Secy Minister A&E

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29/7/75
Read: 30/7/75
Minute book p83
Particulars of lands offered
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29th July 1875
No.105/75
Sir
In reply to your letter dated the 8th Instant, enquiring if any, and what improvements, are on the lands offered to the University of Adelaide and the amount, if any to be paid for such. I have the honor, by direction of the Honorable the Minister of Agriculture and Education, to inform you that the improvements, and estimated value of such are as follows.
Block No 1. Head Station,Huts,Whim-well & yards £1400.0.0
Block No 2. 2 Huts, yards&well £118.0.0
" No 3. House Whim Well & troughs, Two slabhuts & 4 reservoirs £612.0.0
Forward £2130.0.0
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£2130.0.0
Block No 4. 2 Huts, deep well, 3 dams, stockyard waterhole, fencing & tank - say £800.0.0
£2930.0.0
As the improvements on the last block, have to be valued, this amount may be estimated at about three thousand Pounds ( £3000.0.0 ) which would have to be paid in Cash.
The detailed valuation would be supplied on the completion of the Survey, and should the Council of the University consider it advisable, a valuator (sic) might be appointed to check the same.
I have the honor
to be
Sir
your obedient Servant
_ DeMole
Sy. M of A&E

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11/11/75
See Treasurers Report of 26/11/75
minutes p.98
Minister £600 grant
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Adelaide. S.A.
Office of the Minister of Agriculture and Education Nov. 11th 1875
No 253.75
Sir
In reply to your letter of the 1st inst. I have the honor by direction of the Honorable the Minister of Agriculture and Education to inform you that the sum of £600 has been passed, as an advance on account of the University of Adelaide, and is now payable at the Treasury.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your Obedient Servant
_ DeMole
Secretary

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Recd 23/11/75
Personal reply same day
23.11.75
Dear Sir
The Commissioner is enquiring again re Land Grant for University can you tell me if anything further has been done about "magazine" agreement since I last saw you.
Yours truly
_DeMole

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10/12/75
Minister £2000 application(?) will be considered before next Estimates ____
Minute book pp 101-2
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10th December 1875
No 304/75
Sir
I have the honor by direction of the Hon. the Minister of Agriculture and Education to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated the 3rd Ult(?) applying for a grant of £2000 to enable the Council, to commence the erection of the University building, and I am to state that the matter will be duly considered, before the Estimates for the ensuring year
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are prepared.
I have the honor
to be
Sir
your obedient Servant
_ DeMole
Scy M of A&E

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Recd 17/12/75
Council of Edn
scheme of Scholarships __
May University professors examine
Minute book p.10_ p.10__
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December 17th 1875
Sir,
I have the honor by the direction from the Council of Education to state, that they will be glad to receive the opinion of the Council of the University upon the draft scheme of scholarships for public schools, copies of which have been sent to the members of your Council.
I am further directed to inquire, whether the Council of the University will allow the Professors to act as members of the Board of Examiners for the proposed University and South Australian scholarships.
I have the honor to be Sir,
Your obedient servant
James Bath
Secretary
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Draft Scheme of Scholarships

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Recd 17/12/75 after
Council had __
Minister as to use of rooms in Training School
Minute book p106
See No 25/76
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17th Decr 1875
No 313.75
Sir
I have the honor by direction of the Hon'ble the Minister of Agriculture and Education to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated 2nd Novr applying for the use of two rooms at the Training School for the Adelaide University and I am to state that as the Council of Education hope by the end of February to have the preliminary arrangements made for the Training School, the Council are at the present unable to recommend the Government to promise the use of the rooms -
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should it however be found that the University Classes can be accommodated, in the building, without interfering with its proper use for instructing teachers, the Council of Education will be glad to recommend the Government to grant the permission sought.
I have the honor
to be
Sir
your obedient Servant
_ DeMole

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18/12/74
J Boothby
to Lord Bishop
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18 Dec/74
My Lord
A clerical error having occurred in the designation of Sir Henry Ayers - in the original order of Council. I shall be glad if your Lordship will kindly substitute the enclosed - returning the old copy.
Yours faithfully
J. Boothby

This item contains references to: Council, University of Adelaide; government relations

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Recd 22/12/75
Minister re grant of 50,000 acres.
Minute book p.106
No. 180/75, 144/76
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21st December 1875
No 317:75
Sir
I have the honor by direction of the Hon. the Minister of Agriculture and Education to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated the 20th Instant, requesting that immediate steps may be taken to transfer the land, dedicated to the University of Adelaide - and I am instructed to State, that the Minister would not consider it necessary to discuss the statements, some of them inaccurate and others vague, contained in your letter under reply.
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I have also the honor to state - for the information of the Council of the University, that notice of resumption of the lands in question will appear in the Gazette of the 23rd Instant, the necessary Reserves and Lands will be surveyed as soon as possible and the Government proposes to hand over the revenues accruing from these lands, to the Council, from 1st January next.
I have the honor
to be
Sir
your obedient Servant
_ DeMole

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13/11/74
DeMole to G Young
acknowledges receipt of deed of covt. Elder to Hay
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13 Novn 1874
No. 46/74 Sir
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated 12th Instant enclosing a copy of the Deed of Covenant between the Honble Thos Elder. M.L.C. and the Honble. A Hay M.L.C. as treasurer of the University Association, by which the Honble T. Elder's gift of Twenty Thousand pounds is secured to the University of Adelaide.
I have the honor
to be
Sir
your most obedt Servant
_ DeMole

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Adelaide
4th January 1875
Sir,
I have the honor to call your attention to a letter addressed to you by Mr. George Young, the Honorary Secretary of the University Association, and your acknowledgement thereof of the 13th November last, and to inform you that the Council of the Adelaide University appointed Messrs: Alexander Hay M.L.C., West Erskine M.P., G.C. Hawker and myself a Committee to ascertain from you, whether the Government is satisfied that the Bond, or Deed of Covenant, entered into between the Hon. Thos. Elder M.L.C., and the Hon. Alexander Hay as Treasurer of the University Association, is a sufficient investment of the sum of £20.000. Twenty thousand pounds, within the terms of clause 15 of the Adelaide
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University Act No. 20 of 1874
I shall be glad with an early answer, conveying the views of the Government on the question raised, or the notification of an early day for the Committee to wait upon you, should you consider such a course necessary.
I have the honor to be
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
Henry Ayers

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5/1/75
DeMole to Sir H A
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5th January 1875
No. 1/74
Sir
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated 4th Inst. And to state, that I have this day forwarded a reply to your previous communication addressed to the Under Secretary, conveying the division of the Government, on the subject referred to therein.
I have the honor
to be
Sir
your most obedient Servt
_ DeMole
Scy. M of J&E

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5/1/75
DeMole to Sir H.A
Elder's deed accepted as an investment
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5th January 1875
No. 70/74
Sir
In reply to your letter to the Under Secretary dated 16th Inst enquiring on behalf of the Council of the Adelaide University, whether the Government is satisfied that the sum of £20,000 given by Mr Elder is by such Deed of Covenant, invested within meaning of the 15th Clause of Act No. 20 of 1874. I have the honor to state, that if Mr. Elder's Bond, is legally assigned to the University of Adelaide, and the Council of the University report that they have adopted Mr. Elder's Bond, as an investment of the £20,000, it is considered that such will be an investment, under the
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provisions of the above cited Act.
I have the honor
to be
Sir
your most obedt Servant
_ DeMole

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Memo by
Sur General
as to Reserves
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Road(?) water & storm Reserves not to exceed 1/16th of the whole block & that extra area to be added to total areas in proportion to size of blocks.
Received from Mr. Goyder
16/1/75

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26/1/75
Recd 29/1/75
Minutes p 75
as to alteration of site
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26th January 1875
No. 11/75
Sir
In reply to your letter dated 16th January 1875 addressed to the Hon. the Commissioner of Crown Lands, relative to the site for the University and requesting that the Western boundary may be moved further to the West and with a view of bringing the centre of the block opposite the Centre of Pulteney Street, I have the honor by direction of the Honorable the Minister of Justice and Education to inform you that the Government have no objection to the whole
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block being shifted further to the Westward. __ the Government ____ open(?) to the frontage to North Terrace being increased.
I have the honor
to be
Sir
your obedient Servant
_ DeMole
Scy M of J&E

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26/1/75
Read 29/1/75
Minutes p 25
DeMole as to grant of land exclusive of reserves
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26th January 1875
No. 12/75
Sir
In reply to your letter dated 16th January 1875, addressed to the Hon. the Commissioner of Crown Lands & Immigration relative to the conveyance of certain blocks of land, of area less than 6000 or more than 20,000 acres each, to the University of Adelaide, and referring to an arrangement being made,for the resumption of any land, that may be required in such areas for roads __ I have the honor by direction of the Honorable the Minister of Justice and Education to inform you that the Government are prepared to transfer to the Council of the University, such blocks of land as will ensure a clear area of 50,000 acres in the aggregate,
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exclusive of any portions of such blocks, that may be required to be issued for roads or public reserves, during the period of fifteen years, for which time the Government will hold the right of resumption.
I have the honor
to be
Sir
your obedient Servant
_ DeMole
Scy M of J&E

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25/1/75
DeMole
all correspondence to go thro' Depart of J & Ed.
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25th January 1875
No. 5/75
Sir
His Excellency the Governor, in Council, having been pleased to direct that all correspondence, between the University of Adelaide and the Government, be conducted through the Office of the Honorable the Minister of Justice and Education. I have the honor to request that in future all communications may be so addressed.
I have the honor
to be
Sir
your obedient Servant
_ DeMole
Scy M of J&E

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27/1/75
DeMole as to Printing
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27th January 1875
No. 14/75
Sir
In reply to your letter dated 21st Insts requesting on behalf of the Council of the University that the Government Printer may be authorized to print the report of the Committee on the subject of professorships, I have the honor to inform you that the printing of the report has been approved, but the application as regards the general printing, cannot be granted.
If you will furnish me with a copy of the report, and a memorandum of the number of copies required,
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I will forward it to the Government Printing Office.
I have the honor
to be
Sir
your obedient Servant
_ DeMole
Scy, M of J&E

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11/2/75
Secy of Minister
Re Plan of site
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11 February 1875
No. 25/75
Sir
In reply to your letter relative to the alteration of the site of the University, I have the honor to state that the land has been surveyed, and a plan prepared, which I shall be happy to hand to you, in order that the Grant may be prepared.
I have the honor
to be
Sir
your obedient Servant
_ DeMole
Scy, M of J&E

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15/3/75
Recd: 15/3/75
Minutes p56
Cr Lands Secy first offer of lands
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15 March 1875
No. 280/75
Sir,
Referring to your letters dated the 29th January and 19th February addressed to the Minister of Justice and Education, I have the honor by direction of the Commissioner to intimate that His Excellency the Governor is prepared, in accordance with
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the Provisions of clause No 16 of Act No 20 of last sessions of Parliament - After due notice of resumption has been given - to convey to the University of Adelaide for the purposes of the Said University and the further Endowment thereof the following Portions of the Waste Land of the Province; Viz,
Block No1 Wirreanda Containing 10000 acres
Block No 2 ____ containing 10,0000 acres
Block No 3 Parnaroo containing 15.000 acres
Block No 4 Craigies Plain containing 10,000 acres
Block No 5 Straford containing 5,000 acres
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as indicated in the accompanying plan.
I have the honor to be
Sir
your most obedient servant
W.T.(?) Shepperd
Secretary

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13/4/75
Letter & enclosure read: 23/4/75 Minutes p65
Enclosing dispatch for Secy of State as to University Degrees
Committee Minutes p77 See E.44
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13th April 1875
No. 57/75
Sir
I have the honor to forward for the information of the Council of the University of Adelaide a copy of a dispatch received from the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, relative to Act No 20 of 1874 as regards the recognition of the degrees of Bachelor and Doctor in Science, referred to in the 12th section of the Said Act.
I have the honor
to be
Sir
your obedient Servant
_ DeMole
Scy M of J&E
[Enclosure Page 1]
10th February 1875
No. 6
Sir
In my dispatch No. 5 of the 9th Instant, I have notified to you that Her Majesty will not be advised to exercise Her power of disallowance in respect (among other Acts) of the Act No. 20 of last Session to incorporate and endow "the University of Adelaide". Her Majesty's Government fully recognize the claims of South Australia to possess a University endowed with similar privileges to those which have been accorded to the Universities of Sydney and Melbourne, and it will be a matter of congratulation to them when the time shall arrive for the University to grant the ordinary Degree which, in accordance with the English practice, have been sanctioned in the case of the Universties of Sydney & Melbourne, namely the degrees of Bachelor and Master in Arts, and Bachelor and Doctor in Law, Medicine, & Music. But I am of opinion that it may be desirable to take the present opportunity of intimating to you, as I have lately been obliged to do to the Governor of New Zealand, with regard to the New Zealand University, that Her Majesty's Government would feel difficulty in extending the customary recognition to the degrees of Bachelor and Doctor in Science, which are referred to in the 12th Section, and which has not been recognised in the case of the Universities of Sydney and Melbourne and the great English Universities on which these
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new institutions are modelled.
I have not of course considered this objection to the 12th Section, at so early a period in the existence of the University of Adelaide, to be of sufficient weight to justify me in advising Her Majesty to interfere with the operation of the Act.
I have the honor to be
Sir
Your most obedt.__ Servt.
Carnarvon

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30/4/75
Read: 14/5/75 Minutes p.70
Re Powder Magazine
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30th April 1875
No.65/75
Sir
In consequence of the Powder Magazine on the North Parklands being partially situated on the land granted by the Government, as a site for the University, I have the honor by direction of the Honorable the Minister of Justice and Education to request you will be good enough to suggest to the Council of the University of Adelaide, that an undertaking should be given in writing, securing to the Government the use of the building, until such time as the Council may require it removed
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and that at such time, the Government may enter on the land, for the purpose of removing the said Magazine.
I have the honor
to be
Sir
your obedient servant
_ DeMole
Scy M of J&E

This item contains references to: government relations; property management