Anglesey Victoria—Legislative Assembly | |
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![]() Location in Victoria, 1856 | |
State | Victoria |
Dates current | 1856–1859, 1889–1904 |
Demographic | Rural |
The electoral district of Anglesey was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.
The district of Anglesey was one of the initial districts of the first Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1856. [1] Its area was defined in the Victoria Constitution Act of 1855 as containing the County of Anglesey and part of the County of Dalhousie, excepting the area included in the electoral districts of Kyneton Boroughs and Kilmore and the Borough of Seymour. [2]
In between Anglesey's abolition in 1864 and re-creation in 1889, the Electoral district of Kilmore and Anglesey existed from 1877 to 1889, Thomas Hunt was member for its entire existence. [3]
First incarnation (1856–1864) | |||
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Member | Term | ||
Peter Snodgrass | 1856–1859 |
Second incarnation (1889–1904) | |||
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Thomas Hunt | 1889–1892 | ||
Malcolm McKenzie | 1892–1903 | ||
Thomas Hunt | 1903–1904 |
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THE ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF DALHOUSIE.
ANGLESEY. Bounded on the west by part of the eastern boundary of the County of Dalhousie, namely, by the River Goulburn from the confluence of Hughes's Creek to the confluence of Dabyminga Creek; thence by Dabyminga Creek to its source in the Great Dividing Range; on the south by the Great Dividing Range to the main source of the River Goulburn; on the east by the range dividing the waters of the main source of the Goulburn and Big Rivers from those of the Rubicon and Snod-por-dock Creek northward to Mount Torbrick; thence by Jerusalem Creek to its confluence with the River Goulburn; thence by the River Goulburn to the confluence of the River Delatite; thence by the River Delatite and its north-west arm to the Dividing Range between the last named arm and Septimus Creek; and on the north by that range to the source of Hughes's Creek; and thence by Hughes's Creek to its confluence with the River Goulburn, excepting the country included in the Boroughs of Seymour and Avenel ... DALHOUSIE. Commencing at the junction of the Rivers Campaspe and Coliban; thence by a line south-easterly to the source of the Mclvor or Patterson's Creek; thence by a line north-east to the confluence of Hughes's Creek with the River Goulburn; on the east by the River Goulburn until it joins the Dabyminga Creek, by that creek to its source in the Dividing Range; on
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