CHINESE IMMIGRANTS REGULATION ACT. An Act to regulate and restrict the immigration of Chinese and to make provision against their becoming a charge upon the Colony

Supplement to the Queensland Government Gazette of Saturday, 18th August, 1877 – No. 38. At head of title: (New Zealand, South Australia, and Tasmania agree to a Bill copied from the Queensland Act.). [Brisbane : Government Printer, 1877]. Two folio sheets, disbound from a larger volume, printed on three sides paginated 15-17; a good, clean copy of this important Act.

‘In early 1877, there were no immigration restrictions in any of the Australian colonies. Queensland’s Chinese Immigrants Regulation Act of 1877 was the first of many laws that restricted Chinese immigration, in a movement that ultimately led to the White Australia legislation of 1901-2. ‘

– Abstract of article by Phil Griffiths ‘The strategic fears of the ruling class: the construction of Queensland’s Chinese Immigrants Regulation Act of 1877’ https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q1402/the-strategic-fears-of-the-ruling-class-the-construction-of-queensland-s-chinese-immigrants-regulation-act-of-1877