NRS-803 | Cash vouchers [Clergy and School Lands Corporation]

Five sets of vouchers may be distinguished with regard to their origin in one of the five departments of the Corporation that initiated expenditure. The initiating departments were: Management; Church Establishment; Parochial Schools; Orphan Schools; and the Aboriginal Native School. In every case expenditure was ultimately charged to one of two accounts - the Clergy and School Account, or the Improvement and Building Account - according to the nature of the goods and/or services supplied. The cash vouchers were submitted to the Corporation office where they were inspected, summarised in the form of abstracts, and filed. At the end of each year, the original vouchers and abstracts derived from them were bound into volumes. Originally, probably from motives of economy in binding, the vouchers relating to charges of management were bound together with those detailing expenditure of the church establishment; similarly Orphan Schools' vouchers were bound with those of the Aboriginal Native Institution. Parochial schools' vouchers were from the first bound separately. (There was already a sufficient bulk of these in 1826 to justify separate binding.) Salaries were treated separately from other expenditure and "Abstracts of Salaries" for each parish etc. were prepared on printed forms, which bear the signature or mark of the Corporation officer or employee attesting receipt of payment. They also show nature of duties and annual rates of pay. The vouchers give extensive information on salaries, wages, prices of food, clothing and equipment and the costs involved in building and repairs. Volume 4/319 of 1833 includes the accounts of the Board for adjusting the affairs of the Corporation. ( 4/293-319). 27 vols. Note:This description is extracted from Concise Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales, 3rd Edition 2000.