VPRS 3896 Licensing Court Register

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.

本数据集共计创建并留存了1886份酒类许可证（liquor licence）与非酒类许可证（non-liquor licence）申请登记册，这些登记册由各地治安裁判法庭（local courts of petty sessions）负责创建与留存，此类法庭会定期召开年度、季度及常规庭审，由治安法官、许可委员会或许可治安法官参与审理。
根据1885年《许可证法》（Licensing Act 1885，40 Vic., No.857），澳大利亚维多利亚州被划分为若干许可证分区（Licensing Districts），并为每个分区设立许可法庭（Licensing Courts），专门审理并裁定酒类许可证申请。
1886年至1890年留存的许可证登记册，往往记录了管理职责从治安裁判法庭向许可法庭过渡的相关情况。
在多数乡村地区，同一登记册会同时用于酒类及非酒类许可证申请，直至约1890年，官方才引入专门用于酒类许可证申请的专用文书表单。
1886年至1890年间，记录许可法庭庭审程序的页面均附有批注，明确其为该司法管辖权的官方记录。
本数据集系列包含与许可证申请相关的庭审程序记录。
若记录涵盖1890年之前的庭审程序，则大概率同时包含酒类及非酒类许可证申请相关内容；若记录仅涵盖1890年之后的庭审程序，则相关申请仅涉及非酒类许可证。
常见的非酒类许可证类型包括：
- 拍卖商许可证
- 货运商许可证
- 流动商贩许可证
- 驿车运营商许可证
- 屠宰场经营者许可证
- 房地产经纪商许可证
- 征收员许可证