Artist: Frederic Steiger
Portrait Hung: 1951

Election and Approbation of the Speaker (30 January 1866, Journal)

“And the Members having returned, the Hon. Attorney General, addressing himself to the Clerk, who standing up, pointed to him, and then sat down, moved, seconded by Mr. Wyatt, that William Vallance Whiteway Esq., do take the Chair as Speaker of this House.

When Mr. Renouf, addressing himself to the Clerk, who, standing up pointed to him, and then sat down, and moved, in amendment, seconded by Mr. Kavanagh, that Thomas Glen, Esq., do take the Chair as Speaker of this House. And the question the original motion being then put by the Clerk, the House divided, when there appeared,

For the Motion - 17. Hon. Colonial Secretary, Hon. Attorney General, The Solicitor General, The Surveyor General, Mr. Leamon, Mr. Wyatt, Mr. Green, Mr. Bennett, Mr. Rendell, Mr. Oakley, Mr. Evans, Mr. Burton, Mr. March, Mr. Knight, Mr. Prowse, Mr. Rorke, Mr. Whiteway.

Against the Motion-13. Hon. Receiver General, A. Shea, The Chairman Board of Works, Mr. Hogsett, Mr. Parsons, Mr. Kavanagh, Mr. Fury, Mr. Talbot, Mr. Kearney, Mr. Renouf, Mr. Rielley, Mr. Batron, Mr. Glen.

So it passed in the affirmative, and ordered, that William Vallance Whiteway, Esq., take the Chair as Speaker of this House. Mr. Whiteway was then conducted to and placed in the Chair by the Hon. Attorney General and Mr. Wyatt, when he addressed the House as follows:

Gentlemen, I thank you sincerely for the high honor you have conferred upon me. I am sensible of the duties incumbent upon me as your Speaker, and I beg to assure you of my determination to act impartially in maintaining at all times inviolate the privileges of this House.”

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9^th General Assembly, 1^th Session (30 January 1866).