GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTIMUS BURT, APPOINTMENT AS REPRESENTATIVE COLONIAL CONFERENCE, LONDON

Government Gazette, dated 27 January 1887, with notification of the appointment of Septimus Burt as a representative of the State at the Colonial Conference to be held in London, March 1887.
18-page booklet made up of sheets of paper folded in half and printed on both sides. The pages nest inside each other to form the booklet. There are three more lateral folds indicating it was folded into quarters at one point. At top right of the cover there is a handwritten inscription in ink, “S. Burt Esq” and above that a pencil notation, "26 Feb £ 5 (?)". The booklet is in worn condition with the top edge of the pages fraying and some foxing and staining on the front cover, particularly along the top two folds.
The notice about Burt is located on page 48, which in this publication is the first page after the cover page. It is in the right-hand column at the top and reads,
'Colonial Secretary's Office, Perth, 24th January 1887.
HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified, for general information, that he has been pleased to appoint the Honorable JOHN FORREST, C.M.G., Surveyor General and Commissioner of Crown Lands, Member of the Executive and Legislative Councils of the Colony, and SEPTIMUS BURT, Esquire, Barrister-at-Law, to represent the Government of this Colony at the Conference appointed to meet in accordance with the terms of the above dispatch.
By Command, MALCOLM FRASER, Colonial Secretary.'