Australian Agricultural Company : [memorandum of the events, statutes and documents consisting the history of the Company 1824 - May 15, 1873]

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AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURAL COMPANY  

meeting of the following gentlemen, viz. :-  

1824. John Smith, Esq., M.P in the Chair, J. H. Palmer, Esq.,  

Sir Robert Farquhar, Bart., G. G. de Hochepied Larpent, Esq.,  

James Brogden, Esq., M.P., Thomas Tooke, Esq.,  

Stewart Majoribanks, Esq., M.P., George Brown, Esq.,  

William Ward, Esq., John Macarthur, Esq.,  

Rd. Mee Raikes, Esq., Donald Maclean, Esq.,  

was held on the 10th of April, 1824, at the chambers of John Macarthur,  

Esq., in Lincoln’s Inn, to consider scheme for establishing Company  

now known as the Australian Agricultural Company, the object being to  

conduct pastoral and agricultural operations in the colony of New South  

Wales. An interview with Earl Bathurst, the Secretary of State for the  

Colonies, was sought and obtained on the 14th of April, 1824. At this  

interview general outline of the scheme was submitted to his lordship  

who stated that he viewed it with great favor, and encouraged them to  

work out the details of it and to communicate them to him.  

This was done, and the scheme having been approved by Lord  

Bathurst, the Company was established in the same year by G. IV., c.  

86, which received the royal assent on the 21st June, and by royal  

charter bearing date November 5th, 1824, which inter alia provides—  

5th. That the Company should employ upon the land such  

number of convicts as the Governor of the Colony should be willing  

to supply.  

8th. That the lands granted should be held in mortmain and  

be absolutely unalienable except upon the following conditions  

For every Â£10,000 expended by the said Company in the  

formation of roads, the erection of buildings, the cultivation, clearing,  

fencing, draining, or other improvements, the Company might  

alienate 50,000, acres until one moiety or equal half part of the  

lands granted to them had become alienable—provided amongst other  

things that it shall be lawful for the said Company to alienate any of  

the lands to be granted to them, upon obtaining special license  

for that purpose from his Majesty through one of the principal  

Secretaries of State.  

9th.  

10th.  

11th.  

12th. That if within 20 years from the date of the grant the  

said Company had by the employment of convicts exonerated the  

Treasury from charge equal in the whole to the sum of Â£100,000,  

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Australian Agricultural Company. (1873). Australian Agricultural Company : [memorandum of the events, statutes and documents consisting the history of the Company 1824 - May 15, 1873] Retrieved April 21, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-379363482

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Australian Agricultural Company. 1873, Australian Agricultural Company : [memorandum of the events, statutes and documents consisting the history of the Company 1824 - May 15, 1873] The Company, [London? viewed 21 April 2025 http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-379363482

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