VPRS 719 Licensing Court Registers

Up to 1886 registers of applications for liquor and non-liquor licences were created and maintained in local courts of petty sessions at which annual, quarterly and general sittings of justices of the peace, licensing benches or licensing magistrates occurred.Under the Licensing Act 1885 (40 Vic.,No.857) Victoria was divided into Licensing Districts and Licensing Courts were constituted for each Licensing District to hear and determine liquor licence applications. Licence Registers extant for the period 1886 to 1890 often document the transition of responsibility from the courts of petty sessions to the licensing courts. In most country areas the same volume continued to be used for liquor and non-liquor licence applications until circa 1890 when new stationery was introduced specifically for liquor licence applications. Between 1886 and 1890 the pages which record proceedings of the Licensing Court are annotated to show that they are a record of that authority.This series comprises a record of proceedings concerning licence applications. If the records document proceedings held prior to 1890, it is likely that they will include both liquor and non-liquor licence applications. If the records only document proceedings held after 1890 the applications should relate solely to non-liquor licences.Some common non-liquor licences included:- Auctioneers- Carriers- Hawkers- Stage Coach operators- Slaughterers- Real Estate Agents- Collectors.Units 11 - 23 of the P0 consignment were found to be the licensing registers for the Gordon Courts and were processed as VPRS 17024/P1 during 2014.

本数据集共计收录1886份酒类与非酒类牌照申请登记册，这些登记册由各地地方治安法庭（Petty Sessions）创建并维护，该法庭定期召开年度、季度及一般性庭审，由太平绅士（Justices of the Peace）、牌照审批委员会（Licensing Benches）或发证治安法官（Licensing Magistrates）主持。根据1885年《牌照法》（Licensing Act 1885，40 Vic., No.857），维多利亚州被划分为多个牌照管辖区域（Licensing Districts），每个区域均设立牌照法庭（Licensing Courts），专门审理并裁决酒类牌照申请。1886年至1890年间留存的牌照登记册，往往记录了审批权责从地方治安法庭向牌照法庭的转移历程。在大多数乡村地区，同一卷宗会同时用于酒类与非酒类牌照申请的登记，直至约1890年，专门针对酒类牌照申请的新式登记文书投入使用。1886年至1890年间，记录牌照法庭庭审流程的页面均会加注标注，以明确其为该司法机构的正式档案。本系列档案收录了与牌照申请相关的庭审记录。若档案记录的是1890年之前的庭审，则大概率同时包含酒类与非酒类牌照申请的相关内容；若档案仅记录1890年之后的庭审，则其涉及的申请仅为非酒类牌照。常见的非酒类牌照类型包括：拍卖商牌照、运输商牌照、流动商贩牌照、驿站马车运营商牌照、屠宰商牌照、房地产经纪商牌照以及代收商牌照。P0批次中的第11至23单元为戈登法庭的牌照登记册，并于2014年被编目为VPRS 17024/P1。