Records of Legislative Proceedings from 1824 to 1855 (The First Legislative Council)

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Documents for the period 1824 - 1880 have been made available online with support from the 'Sesquicentenary of Responsible Government in NSW' Committee, and funding from the NSW Government.

• Reports of Parliamentary debates, the precursor to Hansard, were published in the Sydney Morning Herald and are available below:
  1843 | 1844 | 1845 | 1846 | 1847 | 1848 | 1849 | 1850 | 1851 | 1852 | 1853 | 1854 | 1855

• Votes and Proceedings are available as PDF files below. There is no consolidated index of Votes and Proceedings for this period. Individual sessional indexes appear in the first few pages of each document.
  

  1824-25 1825-26 1827 1828

  1829 1830 1831 1832

  1833 1834 1835 1836

  1837 1838 1839 1840

  1841 1842 1843 1843 (Extraord.Sess)

  1844 1845 1846 (Sess. 1) 1846 (Sess. 2)

  1847 1848 1849 1850

  1851 (Sess. 1) 1851 (Sess. 2) 1852 1853

  1854 1855

• For other House Papers and records of this period, contact Parliamentary Archives.