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Title: A census at the Clunes diggings, 1851
Description: The Mounted Police were seen yesterday taking a census of all the people present at the goldfields. Diggers reacted with much speculation and some fear that this might mean the imposition of licences and tolls.
Date: 11 August 1851
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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