NRS-1059 | Registers of important documents, commissions, oaths and licences

The volumes contain copies of many interesting documents and papers - correspondence and enclosures, reports of boards, public notices and proclamations, returns, manifests, charters, coroners' inquests, bonds and specifications. The last two volumes (4/1710 and 4/5784) chiefly contain commissions and oaths of public officials, and entertainment and theatrical licences. There are occasional references in letter-books to the "Document Books Nos.1-3".Among the more important papers copied are: 4/5781 25 August 1821-February 1822. Dispute between Hall, Oxley and Throsby over grazing land near the Wingee Carraby (pp.16-53); nominal list of all persons victualled by government as at 8 September 1821 (pp.55-122 photocopy COD477]); dispute between Revd Richard Hill and John Gandell, Superintendent of Convict Barracks, re the latter's swearing on Sunday (pp.124-36); escape of prisoners from Sydney Gaol (pp.137-43); instructions to the Commander of the "Mermaid" proceeding to the Sandwich Islands in company with the "Prince Regent" (pp.149-51); Thomas Reddal re government ration (pp.153-56); instructions to John Nicholson on his appointment as Master Attendant and Harbour Master (pp.161-65); complaints of Revd Middleton at Newcastle (pp.170-80); instructions for surveying and marking out the country in the vicinity of Newcastle and Hunters River (pp.198-202); correspondence between Judge Advocate and Provost Marshall re release of prisoners (pp.209-17); and accounts of lime, cedar, iron and steel furnished to government at Windsor, April 1821-March 1822 (pp.224-25).4/5783 March 1822-February 1824. Hamilton Hume re seizure of his cedar (pp.6-22, also 4/5781 pp.205-07); report by John Campbell on Government Agricultural Establishment, 12 February 1822 (pp.25-41); enquiry into use of government stores at Windsor, March 1822 (pp.43-55); Bank Directors on colonial currency, May 1822 (pp.76-81, 88-93); petition from inhabitants re being paid by the Commissariat in Spanish dollars and reply (pp.119-34); observations on the capability of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land of supplying their populations with food, April 1822 (pp.211-13); Barron Field's comments on the Bigge Report, 15 January 1823 (pp.221-29); agreement with Matthew McIlroy to build road from Richmond to Prospect (pp.237-46); condemnation of meat at Lunatic Asylum, September 1823 (pp.407-17); and scale of rations 1803-23 (pp.464-71).4/5782 March 1824-October 1827. Rules of Practice and Proceedings for the conduct and dispatch of business in the Court of Requests, 4 August 1824 (pp.77-87); regulations for victualling convicts proposed by Board 1824 (pp.162-93); and instructions to Allan Cunningham from Sir Joseph Banks 1814-17 (pp.383-86).4/1710 January 1826-September 1844 (called Register No.1). Abstracts of all licences for marriages granted to free persons, 17 March 1813-26 December 1827 (pp.151-222; microfiche copy SR Fiche 836 in the *ARK, published index); Abstracts of all registrations of vessels granted, 5 November 1817-3 April 1827 (pp.135-50).4/5784 October 1844-April 1863. Includes instructions to explorers Kennedy and Mitchell.(4/5781-84, 4/1710). 5 vols.Note:This description is extracted from Concise Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales, 3rd Edition 2000.