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PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the Governor and Legislative Council of New South Wales, passed in the fourteenth year of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled, " An Act to incorporate "and endow the University of Sydney," it is amongst other things enacted, that for the purpose of ascertaining by means of examination, the persons who shall acquire proficiency in literature, science, and art, and of rewarding them by Academical Degrees, as evidence of their respective attainments, and by marks of honor proportioned thereto, a Senate, consisting of the number of persons in the said Act mentioned shall, within three months after the passing thereof, be nominated and appointed by the said Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council of the said Colony,by Proclamation to be duly published in the New South Wales Government Gazette, which Senate shall be, and by the said Act is constituted from the date of such nomination and appointment, a Body Politic and Corporate, by the name of "The University of Sydney;" and it is thereby further enacted, that the said Body Politic and Corporate shall consist of sixteen Fellows, twelve of whom, at the least, shall be laymen: Now, therefore, I, SIR CHARLES AUGUSTUS FITZ Roy, as such Governor aforesaid, by this my Proclamation, published in the New South Wales Government Gazette, do notify and proclaim that, with the advice of the said Executive Council, I have nominated and appointed the following persons to be such Senate as aforesaid; that is to say :THE REVEREND WILLIAM BINNINGTON BOYCE, EDWARD BROADHURST, ESQUIRE,

JOHN BAYLEY DARVALL, ESQUIRE,

STUART ALEXANDER DONALDSON, ESQUIRE,
THE RIGHT REVEREND CHARLES HENRY DAVIS,
ALFRED DENISON, ESQUIRE,

EDWARD HAMILTON, ESQUIRE,

JAMES MACARTHUR, ESQUIRE,

FRANCIS LEWIS SHAW MEREWETHER, ESQUire,

CHARLES NICHOLSON, ESQUIRE,

BARTHOLOMEW O'BRIEN, ESQUIRE,

THE HONORABLE JOHN HUBERT PLUNKETT, Esquire,
THE REVEREND WILLIAM PURVES,

HIS HONOR ROGER THERRY, ESQUIRE,

THE HONORABLE EDWARD DEAS THOMSON, ESQUIRE,

and

WILLIAM CHARLES Wentworth, Esquire.

Given under my Hand and Seal at Government
House, Sydney, this twenty-fourth day of
December, in the Year of Our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and fifty, and in the
fourteenth year of Her Majesty's Reign.
CHS. A. FITZ ROY.

(L.S.)

By His Excellency's Command,

E. DEAS THOMSON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

UNIVERSITY OFFICERS.

Visitor.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR GENERAL.

THE SENATE.

Pruvost.

E. T. HAMILTON, M. A.
Late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Vice-Pravost.

THE HONORABLE SIR CHARLES NICHOLSON, Knt.

Speaker, L. C.
Fellows.

BOYCE, The Rev. William Binnington
BROADHURST, Edward, B. A. M. L, C.
DARVALL, John Bayley, M. A. M. L. C.
DONALDSON, Stuart Alexander, M. L. C.

DAVIS, The Right Rev. Charles Henry

DENISON, Alfred, M.A.

MACARTHUR, James, M. L. C.

MEREWETHER, The Hon. Francis Lewis Shaw, M. A. M. L. C.

O'BRIEN, Bartholomew, M. D.

PLUNKETT, The Hon. John Hubert, M. A. M. L. C.

PURVES, The Rev. William

THERRY, His Hon. Mr. Justice

THOMSON, The Hon. Edward Deas, M. L. C.

WENTWORTH, William Charles, M. L. C.

Prafessars.

CLASSICS.

John Woolley, D. C. L. Principal.

Late Fellow of University College, Oxford.

MATHEMATICS.

Morris Birkbeck Pell, B. A.
Late Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge.

CHEMISTRY AND EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS.

John Smith, M.D.

Fellow of Chemical Society of London.

Secretary & Registrar.
William Louis Hutton, B. A.

Librarian.

Frederick Hale Forshall,

Late Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Aniversity Scholars.

December, 1852.

WENTWORTH, Fitzwilliam

WINDEYER, William Charles

OLIVER, Alexander

MITCHELL, David Scott

SEALY, Robert

CURTIS, William Cyprian.

INAUGURATION OF THE UNIVERSITY.

The ceremony of Inauguration took place on Monday, the 11th October, 1852, in the great hall of the buildings at present occupied by the University, in the presence of a crowded assembly.

At half-past Twelve o'clock the candidates for Matriculation were introduced, and after their names had been entered in the Album by the Registrar, took their appointed places.

At One o'clock the procession entered the Hall, marshalled by the Chamberlain, Dr. Greenup, in the following order :-the Beadle, Vergers, the Professors, the Fellows of the Senate, two and two, the ViceProvost, the Governor-General, attended by his staff; the Chief-Justice Sir Alfred Stephen, and Mr. Justice Dickinson, attended by their associates; LieutenantGeneral Wynyard, Commander-in-Chief, and the Honourable Campbell Riddell, Colonial-Treasurer; the Staff-Officers of the Commander-in-Chief; Colonel Bloomfield, and the Officers of the 11th Regiment; Captain Gennys and the Officers of H. M. S. Fantome. The procession was also accompanied by the principal Ministers of Religion, of all denominations; by the Members of the Bar, and by the Consuls of Foreign Powers. All were habited in academical or full dress official acostume.

The Fellows present, were the Honourable Sir Charles Nicholson, Vice-Provost, Speaker, L. C. The Honourable E. Deas Thomson, Colonial-Secretary; the Honourable J. H. Plunkett, Attorney-General;

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