And your petitioners humbly pray ...
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Divorce Cases in Newspapers (1884)
Transcription
To the Honorable the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly of the colony of Victoria in Parliament assembled
The Petition of the Assembly of the Bishop the Clergy and the Laity of the Church of England within the Diocese of Melbourne in the Colony of Victoria
Sheweth
That the practice of publishing in the daily journals full details of the more revolting cases brought before the Divorce Court, whereby the young are familiarised with impurity and seriously injured, and the whole atmosphere of social life is polluted, having been brought under the notice of your petitioners.
Your Petitioners humbly pray that your Honorable House will take such steps as to your Honorable House may seem to be necessary to abate the nuisance.
And your petitioners will ever pray &c
Signed on behalf of the Assembly of the Bishop the Clergy and the Laity of the Church of England in the Diocese of Melbourne by.
J Melbourne
HJ Wrixon
Ordered to lie on the table
5 November 1884
G H Jenkins
Clerk of the Legislative Assembly
