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which allowed the library to own land and sell shares and changed its name to the "Australian Subscription Library." Around this time there were offers to erect a permanent building for the Library at the government's expense but this was turned down as the members forwent their claim to the site of building allotment. Ironically Governor Richard Bourke's preferred location was close to where the Library would later be built, as it was in the Government Domain,

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