Tuesday, November 9, 2021

1862

GULGONG GOLDFIELDS PROCLAIMED

... the following shall be deemed a Gold Field within the meaning and for the purposes of the said Act, that is to say County of Phillip, at Gulgong, Cooyal Creek. The Gold Field on Crown Lands within the following boundaries:
Commencing on Cooyal Creek, at the south-east corner of P. M'Nally's 40 acres; and bounded thence on the south by the south boundary of that land, bearing west to its south-west corner; and thence by a line bearing about west 2 miles and 14 chains to the north-east corner of J. Donoghue's 40 acres on the Mudgee and Talbragar Roads; thence by the north boundary of that land and its westerly prolongation, bearing west in all 2 miles and 10 chains; on the west by a line bearing north 2 miles and 48 chains to the south-west corner of a measured portion of 48 acres, adjoining the west boundary of G. Stoll's 200 acres; on the north by the south boundary of that 48 acres, easterly, and the west and south boundaries of G. Stoll's 200 acres aforesaid, southerly and easterly, to the north-west corner of G. Stoll's 100 acres; thence by the west, the south, and the east boundaries of G. Stoll's 100 acres southerly, easterly, and northerly to the south west corner of R. Rouse's 1,118 acres; thence by the south boundary of that land, easterly, to the north-west corner of A. J. Liddington's 640 acres; thence by the west and south boundaries of that land, southerly and easterly, to Cooyal Creek; and thence on the north-east by that creek, upwards, to the point of commencement. To be called "The Gulgong Gold Fields."