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Hundred of Clinton

Townships within the Hundred of Clinton are Port Arthur, Port Clinton and Clinton Centre.

In 1869 the Wastelands Amendment Act, or as it was more popularly known - The Strangways Act, was passed, and this took the land form the squatters, who had leased it for a nominal amount, and made it available for farmers for agricultural purposes.

Source: Four Make One, page 9

 

The land was to be surveyed into Hundreds and each Hundred was to contain at least a hundred square miles and to have a town.

Sources: Governor Fergusson's Legacy, pages 3 and 118

 

The Hundred of Clinton was proclaimed in 1862.

Source: The Ill Shaped Leg, page 76
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