This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 edition. Excerpt: .Goulburn, Mount Macedon, and Geelong; as the communication, however, of these officers with the furthest native tribes extends itself, their stations will in all probability be removed according as circumstances may point out, changes which must of course occasion a corresponding alteration in the designation of territory under their charge; the third comprehends the counties, three in number, which have been apportioned by Government, and severally named as tlie county of Bourke, of Grant, and of Normanby; the fourth includes the police districts, two only of which have been hitherto established, those of Melbourne and Geelong, their capital towns, bearing the same name, are the seats of a police magistrate's jurisdiction; even these divisions, however, are so vaguely defined as to render accuracy in detail virtually impossible. The river Weirabee forms a boundary line between the two, on either side of which the country, wherever in possession of stockholders, comes naturally under the protection and authority of the nearest bench; for as the settlers spread themselves eastward of Melbourne, filling up the space intervening between New South Wales and the recently located territory, they will, until another police bench be fixed either at the Goulburn, the Violet Ponds, Western Port, Mount Macedon, or some intermediate point, consider themselves as under the jurisdiction of Melbourne.

In like manner, until a magistrate be appointed at Portland Bay, Port Fairy, Mount Rouse, or on the Lodon, the settlers inhabiting the country, no matter how far westward of Geelong, will seek that township for the settlement of matters coming under the judicial power of a police magistrate. In the Melbourne District are situated the towns of.