LETTERS PATENT, APPOINTMENT OF SEPTIMUS BURT TO KING'S COUNSEL

Letters Patent dated 27 February 1901, appointing Septimus Burt as King's Council in Western Australia. Authorised by George Throssell, Premier and Colonial Treasurer, Western Australia, on behalf of King Edward VII.
Printed document on cream paper with official red seal (wafer seal with embossed design) affixed at lower left. The document is presented in landscape format and is signed at the bottom by George Throssell as Colonial Treasurer and at top left by Alexander Onslow as Administrator. There are creases, one vertical and one lateral (including across the top part of the seal) which indicates the document was folded for storage in the past. There is some puckering of the paper along the edges. On the back in red pencil positioned sideways is a small handwritten notation, "Q. P. Letters".