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Title: Cases from the Circuit Court at Fryers Creek, 1854
Description: The Acting Chief Justice Barry took his seat on the bench, in the Court House at Castlemaine. One of the stranger offences before him was the forgery of the name of the district’s Roman Catholic priest.
Date: 9 August 1854
Published Source: Australian National Dictionary Centre, The Gold Rushes and Australian English: a resource for researchers, teachers and students, Australian National University, 2005, http://www.anu.edu.au/andc/res/aus_words/gold/index.php. [ Details... ]
Rights: This material is provided by the Australian National Dictionary Centre, a joint project of the Australian National University and Oxford University Press Australia.

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