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- ↑ "Legislative Assembly: elections committee". The Sydney Morning Herald . 21 September 1870. p. 4. Retrieved 18 August 2020– via Trove.
- ↑ "Petition against the return of Michael Kelly". New South Wales Government Gazette (34). 15 February 1870. p. 379. Retrieved 18 August 2020– via Trove.
- ↑ "Writ of election: Braidwood". New South Wales Government Gazette (225). 21 September 1870. p. 2017. Retrieved 18 August 2020– via Trove.
- ↑ Green, Antony. "1870 Braidwood by-election". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 18 August 2020.
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