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“Whosoever unlawfully and with violence or by any threat of violence prevents any person from or obstructs him in working at or exercising, his lawful trade or occupation, or beats or uses any violence or threat of violence to any such person, with intent to prevent him, shall, on conviction before two Justices, be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months , or a fine not exceeding £20.” The second time I was in Lockhart in this version of my life was in 2013 and I was on the trail of the Great Shearers’ strikes of the 1880’s and 90’s. Brookong Station, south west of the town on the Urana road was the place where Henry Baylis, the dour Scots Police Magistate from Wagga Wagga read this section of the Riot Act for the first time in the history of the colony. I booked into the Commercial Hotel in the centre of town – a pub that’d caught my eye 3 years earlier - and then headed out to...