NRS-18715 | Minutes [Sydney Harbour Trust Commissioners]

This series consists of the minutes of the Sydney Harbour Trust Commissioners. The minutes were created under Section 16 of the Sydney Harbour Trust Act, 1901 (Act No.1, 1901) which required the three commissioners to 'keep minutes of their proceedings in such manner and form as the Governor shall direct'.The minutes document the decisions and resolutions made by the Commissioners. The minutes provide the following information: the date and place of the meeting, the Commissioners present, correspondence and reports received by the Trust that required a decision, and statement of accounts including account numbers. Business was recorded on the left half of the page with decisions on the right half of the page. The description of the correspondence, reports and business decreases with time, but appears to include file numbers.The Commissioners made decisions on items such as the appointment, promotion and retirement of staff; building, repair and leasing of wharves; dredging of navigation lanes and removal of obstructions; tenders and equipment; licensing and associated charges; safety on the waterways and wharves; control of pollution into waterways; and leasing and resumption of land and buildings near the shore line.The minutes are typed, signed by the President or his deputy, and bound in single years. The signed minutes are initially labelled as the Secretary's minutes. The series includes duplicate volumes of minutes from 1901 to 1904 which are labelled as the President's minutes and are not signed. From March 1901 to 29 January 1904 the minutes include pages headed 'Record of business conducted by Commissioners'. These pages are not given a meeting number and record business conducted outside of minuted meetings. There are no minutes for 1911.The numbering system for meetings changes over time. The use of running page numbers across volumes begins on 28 March 1904. Before that date each meeting has individual page numbers. Pagination contains errors and also stops and restarts in 1913 and again in 1931.The minutes are not indexed.

本系列馆藏为悉尼港信托委员会（Sydney Harbour Trust Commissioners）会议纪要。该纪要依据1901年《悉尼港信托法案》（1901年第1号法案）第16条制定，条款要求三名委员会委员“按照总督指定的格式与方式，记录委员会议事纪要”。纪要完整记录委员会作出的各项决定与决议，涵盖以下信息：会议召开的日期与地点、出席委员名单、信托委员会收到的需审议的往来函件与报告，以及包含账户编号的财务报表。页面布局采用左页记录议事内容、右页记录决议事项的形式。随着时间推移，往来函件、报告与议事内容的记述篇幅逐步缩减，但仍包含档案编号。

委员会的决策范畴涵盖：职员的聘任、晋升与退休；码头的建造、修缮与租赁；航道疏浚与障碍物清除；投标与设备采购；许可审批及相关收费标准；航道与码头的安全管理；航道污染防控；以及岸线附近土地与建筑的租赁与征收收回。

本纪要均为打印件，由委员会主席或其副手签署，并按年度单独装订。签署后的纪要最初标注为“秘书纪要”。本系列包含1901年至1904年的纪要副本，该部分标注为“主席纪要”，且未附签署。

1901年3月至1904年1月29日期间的纪要中，包含标注为“委员会议事记录”的页面，此类页面未分配专属会议编号，用于记录非经正式会议议定的议事内容。1911年无相关会议纪要留存。

会议编号体系随时间有所调整：1904年3月28日起开始采用跨卷连续页码编号，此前每一场会议均使用独立的页码编号。页码编排存在多处错误，且1913年及1931年曾出现页码中断后重新开始的情况。本纪要未编制索引。