The resolution was carried unanimously.

Dr. Macadam, M.L.A., proposed the third resolution which was to this
effect:

That this meeting is persuaded that it is incumbent on the various
Australian Governments to mark in some appropriate manner their sense of
the great merits of the leaders of the contingent exploration parties,
and of the important results which must flow from their discoveries; and
that a copy of this resolution be forwarded for the consideration of the
respective Governments.

Some difference of opinion, he said, had been manifested in reference to
the manner in which the exertions of the respective explorers should be
recognised. He himself had only had one opinion upon the subject, namely,
that they should be recognised through the Legislatures of the respective
colonies to which the explorers belonged. Although he and, he believed,
the committee with which he was connected had been blamed for not
sympathising materially with the subscription being raised for Mr.
Landsborough, he had already personally explained to Mr. Landsborough his
own views. It was held as a general principle that when a national good
was conducted it was entitled to a national reward. (Hear, hear.) He
trusted that this would remove any impression which might exist as to
there being any opposition on his part, or on the part of the Exploration
Committee, to the subscription which was being raised for Mr.
Landsborough; but, as he had already stated to Mr. Landsborough and Mr.
McKinlay, they believed that the legislatures of the different colonies
should recognise that which he thought was a greater benefit than that
for which any amount of money could be spent under any other vote of the
Legislature. (Applause.) He had to make one word of personal explanation