[GOLD RUSH; EUREKA REBELLION] Ballaarat outbreak. Petition. Ordered by the Council to be printed, 18th December, 1855.

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Melbourne : John Ferres, Government printer, 1855. Foolscap folio, 1 page; fine. Petition with 752 signatures, claiming compensation from the government on the grounds that during and after certain disturbances, which happened on the Eureka, on and about the third December, 1854, there was a wanton and uncalled for destruction of the property of those individuals who chanced to live within and near to what was then called the Stockade .

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