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[[File:Schulze Charles MD-GFs Pet 1853 11.jpg|500px|thumb|right| Signature of [[Charles Schulze]] from the 1853 Bendigo Goldfields Petition]]
[[File:Bendigo-Petition2.JPG|500px|thumb|right|''Bendigo Goldfields Petition Cover,'' August 1853. State Library of Victoria (MS 12440)
and Condemned them to hard labor on the Public Roads of the Colony - A proceeding Your Petitioners maintain to be contrary to the spirit of the British Law which does not recognise the principle of the Subject being a Criminal because he is indebted to the State<br/>
That the impost of Thirty Shillings a Month is unjust because the successful and unsuccessful Digger are assessed in the same ratio<br/>
For these reasons and others which could be enumerated Your Petitioners pray Your Excellency to Grant the following Petition<br/>
 * First. To direct that the Licence Fee be reduced to Ten Shillings a Month<br/>
 * Secondly To direct that Monthly or Quarterly Licenses be issued at the option of the Applicants<br/>
 * Thirdly To direct that new arrivals or invalids be allowed on registering their names at the Commissioners Office fifteen clear days residence on the Gold Fields before the License be enforced<br/>
 * Fourthly To afford greater facility to Diggers and others resident on the Gold Fields who wish to engage in Agricultural Pursuits for investing their earnings in small allotments of land<br/>
 * Fifthly To direct that the Penalty of Five Pounds for non-possession of License be reduced to One Pound<br/>
 * Sixthly To direct that (as the Diggers and other residents on the Gold Fields of the Colony have uniformly developed a love of law and order) the sending of an Armed Force to enforce the License Tax be discontinued.<br/>
Your Petitioners would respectfully submit to Your Excellency's consideration in favour of the reduction of the License Fee that many Diggers and other residents on the Gold-fields who are debarred from taking a License under the present System would if the Tax were reduced to Ten Shillings a Month cheerfully comply with the Law so that the License Fund instead of being diminished would be increased<br/>
Your Petitioners would also remind your Excellency that a Petition is the only mode by which they can submit their wants to your Excellency's consideration as although they contribute more to the Exchequer that half the Revenue of the Colony they are the largest class of Her Majesty's Subjects in the Colony unrepresented<br/>
And your Petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray etc.]]

[[File:IMG_0286-wiki.jpg|1000px|thumb|right|''Red Ribbon Movement Monument in Rosalind Park, Bendigo [detail], 2013.'' Ballarat Heritage Services Picture Collection]]

==Background==

Ludwig William Schulzen was born at Leipsic, [[Germany]]. He arrived on the Victorian goldfields from South Australia in 1852. He was a medical doctor<ref>Bowden, Keith Macrae, ''Doctors and Diggers on the Mount Alexander Goldfields'', S.P., 1974.</ref> 

==Goldfields Involvement, 1853-1854==

Schulzen was part of a German committee resisting the license fee in August 1853.<ref>Bowden, Keith Macrae, ''Doctors and Diggers on the Mount Alexander Goldfields'', S.P., 1974.</ref> He signed the (Bendigo]] goldfields in 1853. The [[Anti-Gold License Association]] was formed at [[Bendigo]] in June 1853, led by [[George Thomson]], Dr [[D.G. Jones]] and 'Captain' [[Edward Browne]]. The association focused its attention on the 30 shillings monthly licence fee miners were required to pay to the government. They drew up a petition outlining digger grievances and called for a reduced licence fee, improved law and order, the right to vote and the right to buy land. The petition was signed by diggers at [[Bendigo]], [[Ballarat]], [[Castlemaine]], [[McIvor]] ([[Heathcote]]), [[Mount Alexander]] ([[Harcourt]]) and other diggings. The 13 metre long petition was presented to Lieutenant-Governor [[Charles La Trobe]] in Melbourne on the 01 August 1853, but their call for a reduction in monthly licence fees and land reform for diggers was rejected. The diggers dissatisfaction erupted into the [[Red Ribbon Rebellion]] where agitators wore red ribbons on their hats symbolising their defiance of the law and prohibitive licence fees.<Ref>Geelong Advertiser, 27 March 1854.</ref>

In 1854 Dr Schulzen was at Tarrengower. He registered in 1856 when located at Sandhurst (Bendigo). In May the following year he was at Dunolly, and by August he was at Hamilton.<ref>Bowden, Keith Macrae, ''Doctors and Diggers on the Mount Alexander Goldfields'', S.P., 1974.</ref>

==Post 1854 Experiences==

==See also==

[[Bendigo Goldfields Petition]]

[[Ballarat Reform League Inc. Monuments Project]]

==Further Reading==

==References==
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==External links==

https://blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/family-matters/collections/did-you-ancestor-sign-the-bendigo-goldfields-petition/

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