"With reference to the notice published in the New South Wales Government Gazette, dated 22nd November, 1842, wherein the style and title of the Mayor and Council of the Town of Melbourne is notified as 'The Worshipful the Mayor,' or 'The Worshipful the Mayor and Council of the Town of Melbourne,' His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor is now pleased to intimate that until the pleasure of Her Majesty be known, the Mayor and Council of the City of Melbourne will in all official acts emanating from this Government, be addressed or designated as 'The Right Worshipful the Mayor' or 'The Right Worshipful the Mayor and Council of the City of Melbourne.'"
The First Public Departments.
The young colony had started business on its own account. The permanent heads of Departments were appointed, and the Departments themselves, as so many administrative workshops, had to be organized. As a curious contrast between past and present, a notice of the principal infantile establishments will not be uninteresting, and though in some slight degree an anachronism, it will be convenient at this stage to refer to them and their endowments as proposed on the Estimates for 1852.
| THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR. | |||||||
| His Excellency (special appropriation) | £2,000 0 0 | Contingencies, including £60 house rent allowance to Private Secretary, and £84 for purchase of four horses | 652 4 0 | ||||
| Private Secretary | £300 0 0 | ||||||
| Aide-de-Camp, 9s. 6d. per diem | 173 17 0 | ||||||
| Mounted Orderlies, viz., one Sergeant at 4s. 6d., and three Troopers at 3s. 6d. each per diem | 274 10 0 | Total | ... | £1,400 11 0 | |||
| COLONIAL (CHIEF) SECRETARY. | |||||||
| Colonial Secretary | £900 0 0 | Occasional Clerical Assistance | 100 0 0 | ||||
| Chief Clerk (first-class) | 265 0 0 | Messenger | 50 0 0 | ||||
| Three Clerks of third-class, at £140, £120, and £110 per annum | 370 0 0 | Housekeeper | 20 0 0 | ||||
| Incidentals | 295 0 0 | ||||||
| Total | ... | £2,000 0 0 | |||||
| COLONIAL TREASURY. | |||||||
| Treasurer | £500 0 0 | Messenger at (2s. 6. per diem) | 45 15 0 | ||||
| Chief Clerk (second-class) | 200 0 0 | Occasional Clerical Assistance | 50 0 0 | ||||
| Clerk of second-class | 173 17 0 | Incidentals | 114 5 0 | ||||
| Total | ... | £1,500 0 0 | |||||
| AUDIT OFFICE. | |||||||
| Auditor-General | £600 0 0 | Incidentals | 80 0 0 | ||||
| Chief Clerk (first-class) | 250 0 0 | Housekeeper | 20 0 0 | ||||
| Clerk (second-class) | 150 0 0 | ||||||
| Total | ... | £1,100 0 0 | |||||
| ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE. | |||||||
| The Resident Judge (special appropriation) | £1,500 0 0 | Clerk to Attorney-General | 100 00 0 | ||||
| Attorney-General | 750 0 0 | Two Clerks to the Crown-Solicitor, i.e., one at £150, and one at £100 | 250 0 0 | ||||
| Solicitor-General | 500 0 0 | Crier and Court-keeper | 80 0 0 | ||||
| Crown-Solicitor | 400 0 0 | Two Messengers 2s. 6d. per day each | 91 10 0 | ||||
| Crown-Prosecutor | 400 0 0 | Sheriff | 450 0 0 | ||||
| Master in Equity and Commissioner of Insolvent Estates | 500 0 0 | Clerk | 180 0 0 | ||||
| Registrar of Supreme Court and Curator Intestate Estates | 450 0 0 | Commissioner of Court of Requests | 300 0 0 | ||||
| Chief Clerk and Prothonotary | 300 0 0 | Registrar | 200 0 0 | ||||
| Four Clerks—one at £175, two at £110, and one at £100 | 495 0 0 | Contingencies | 2,170 00 0 | ||||
| Clerk to the Judge | 200 0 0 | Total | ... | £9,316 10 0 |
