Local Government Petition in Windsor 1863

On the 19th November 1863, a Petition under the Municipalities Act appeared in the Supplement to the New South Wales Government Gazette which was signed 248 residents of Windsor. The petitioners were requesting that an earlier petition appearing in the Government Gazette of 22nd July 1863 requesting that the township of Windsor is incorporated into a Municipality was “premature”. At the time there was a population of about 1900 people in the town and the recurrent costs of flooding and the small number of people could mean the residents incur additional expenses.