 Protectors of Aborigines had been appointed from as early as 1836 in South Australia (with Matthew Moorhouse as the first gazetted appointment as Chief Protector in 1939), with the Governor proclaiming that Aborigines were "to be considered as much under the safeguard of the law as the Colonists themselves, and equally entitled to the Privileges of British Subjects.Under the "Aboriginal Orphans Ordinance 1844" the Protector was made legal guardian of "every half-caste and other unprotected Aboriginal child whose parents are dead or unknown".Schools and reserves were set up.