Author: BROWN'S DIGGINGS [PARLIAMENT OF VICTORIA].
Title: Report from The Select Committee upon Brown's Diggings; together with the Proceedings of Committee, Minutes of Evidence and Appendices.
Description: First Edition; F'cap Folio; pp. xxii, 96; 9 page report, 11 pages of proceedings, 96 pages of minutes of evidence, bound in original blue sewn parliamentary paper, front wrapper a little browned otherwise a fine copy. Melbourne; John Ferres, Government Printer; 1860. Enquire into Leases to Buchan, Ducan and others of auriferous lands at Brown's (including Smythe's Creek, North Briton and Contest Leads) with a view of ascertaining whether the granting of such leases interfered with the existing rights of certain miners. The Committee included Peter Lalor, a leader at the Eureka stockade.

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