Below is a Transcript of the Letters Patent establishing a Royal Commission into the Practices at Woogaroo Asylum in 1869, as found at the Queensland State Archives, Item ID 2926490.
This is part of a series publishing primary source documents relating to Woogaroo from 1865 to 1901.
There is a mark in front of Governor Blackall’s signature which I can’t interpret and would be glad to hear from a reader if you can decipher it for me.
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| Detail from Queensland State Archives Item ID 2926490 showing the mark in front of Governor Blackall's signature. |
Register of Patents pages 388 - 389
[In left side margin] Entered on the Record by me in Register of Patents No 2 Pages 388 & 389. This Eleventh day of February AD 1869. Robt Gray. For Colonial Secretary and Registrar.
Victoria by the Grace of God of the
Kingdom of Great Britain
And Ireland Queen Defender
Of the faith and so forth.
To Patrick Macarthur Police Magistrate at Ipswich in our colony of Queensland
And Albert Maxwell Hutchinson Sub Collector of Customs at Ipswich in our said Colony Esquires.
Greeting:-
Know you that we in full confidence of your ability prudence and fidelity have appointed you and each of you and by these Presents give you full power and authority in accordance with letters of Instruction furnished you herewith in that behalf to make a diligent full and minute enquiry into the truth or otherwise of certain allegations and charges made in various letters which have recently been published by Henry Kilner, John Brosnan, William H. Collard and others reflecting seriously upon the management of our Lunatic Asylum at Woogaroo in our said Colony and the treatment and care bestowed upon the patients in that Institution, and for that purpose WE Command you and each of you that on such days you shall appoint for that purpose (and of which appointment you shall from time to time give reasonable notice to the several parties concerned therein) you proceed to such Lunatic Asylum and then and there examine the several witnesses who shall appear before you separately and apart from each other, and WE further command and enjoin you (if necessary) to adjourn such enquiry and investigation to such time or times as to you and each of you shall seem expedient, giving notice to the several parties aforesaid, and WE do further Command and enjoin you that you take down the examination of the several Witnesses and reduce the same into writing, and when you shall have so taken down and concluded the said enquiry and investigation, that you make a full and faithful report upon the several matters above referred to, as to you and each of you shall seen just from the testimony of the several witnesses examined before you, and such report together with all the evidence adduced you shall transmit to the Office of our Colonial Secretary of our said Colony with all convenient speed.
In witness whereof Our Trusty and Well beloved Samuel Wesley Blackall Esquire Governor and Commander in Chief of our Colony of Queensland and its Dependencies hath caused this Instrument to be sealed with the seal of Our said Colony at Government House, Brisbane this Eleventh day of February in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand eight-Hundred and Sixty nine and the Thirty second year of Our Reign.
[?] Sam. W. Blackall
Gov’r
By His Excellency's Command
Arthur Hodgson
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