Proclamation Proroguing the Council.

The Federal Council of Australasia Act, 1885.

By His Excellency Sir George Cumine Strahan, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Colony of Tasmania and its dependencies.

A Proclamation.

Whereas by the Act of the Imperial Parliament of the 48 & 49 Vict. Oh. 60, intituled "An Act to constitute a Federal Council of Australasia," it is enacted that the Federal Council of Australasia shall be summoned and prorogued by the Governor of the Colony in which the Session shall be held, and shall be so summoned and prorogued by Proclamation published in the Government Gazette of each of the Colonics in the said Act referred to in respect to which the said Act is in operation: And whereas in accordance with the provisions of the said Act the present Session of the said Federal Council (being the First Session thereof) has been held at Hobart, in the Colony of Tasmania: And whereas it is expedient that the said Federal Council shall be prorogued: Now therefore I, Sir George Cumine Strahan, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief as aforesaid, in pursuance of the said Act, and by virtue of the power thereby conferred upon me, do, by this Proclamation, prorogue the said Federal Council.

Given under my hand at Hobart, in Tasmania aforesaid, this sixth day of February, One thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.