 In 1853, a Select Committee was established by the Council to consider rewards for the discovery of gold, and a reward of £ 1000 was ultimately awarded to Campbell; his discovery was the earliest to be officially recognised and rewarded.However, Campbell's opponents in the Council sought to use the reward against him, and he was only given around £500, which he divided between the workers who had been with him at the time of the discovery, and various charities.Campbell left the Council in 1854 and travelled to England, to advocate against land reforms being proposed by Lieutenant-Governor Charles La Trobe and other members of the Council, and for the continuation of an 1847 Order in Council allowing for generous pastoral leases over unalienated Crown land in the unsettled parts of the colony.