Proclamation

Proclamation by the Lieutenant-Governor stating the Act to Amend the Constitution passed by the South Australian Parliament in 1894 had been laid before Her Majesty and that "Her Majesty had been pleased to assent to the same."

The Act referred to extended to women the right to vote and to possess the same rights subject to the same qualifications and in the same manner as men.

South Australian women thereby became the first in Australia and second in the British Empire to receive the right to vote as well as to stand for election to Parliament.

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