The Seat of Government Act 1908 was enacted by the Australian Government on 14 December 1908. The act selected the Yass-

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region as the site for

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, the new capital city of

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. The act repealed the earlier '' Seat of Government Act 1904'' which had previously selected a site at Dalgety for the new capital. The actual creation of the Federal Capital Territory (now

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) did not occur until after Charles Robert Scrivener had surveyed the area and defined a potential border. The ''

Seat of Government Acceptance Act 1909 The ''Seat of Government Acceptance Act 1909'' is an Australian Commonwealth Government act, that in conjunction with the '' Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909'' transferred land from the state of New South Wales to the Commonwealth for the cr ...

'' and '' Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909'' transferred the land from the state of

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to the Commonwealth to create the territory. The new territory's laws were created through the '' Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910''.

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*National Archives of Australi
Documenting Democracy - Seat of Government Act 1908

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