NRS-13642 | Office diaries of D.B. Hutchinson

The first two volumes mainly contain personal observations unrelated to official duties, ie, record of payments made, personal letters written etc., together with precis of acts in force, note on the derivation of common law, newspaper clippings of Supreme Court rules promulgated (1841) etc. There appears to be a partial record of official payments made (although these are not separate from personal payments), and a record of documents sent to other offices of the Supreme Court, the Sheriff and Attorneys.Volume 5/2713 is labelled "Ecclesiastical Matters", and includes memoranda regarding letters and bonds of administration of individual intestate estates (Hutchinson being appointed Prothonotary and Curator of Intestate Estates on 1 February 1862), noting eligibility of petitioners to take out letters of administration, documents required before administration can be granted, defectiveness of bonds of administration submitted.Volumes 5/2707-12 are more in the nature of day books, showing: documents received - recognizances, affidavits, clerkship articles, calendars of appeals from Port Phillip etc.; documents and letters sent - commissions to take affidavits, venires for summoning of juries (sent to Sheriff's Office), commissions to consent to marriage of minors, writs of execution (fieri facias) concerning fines for non-attendance of jurors, copies of pardons (sent to Colonial Secretary) etc.; and documents, schedules etc. to be drawn up, distributed and filed by Hutchinson in his capacity as 2nd clerk of the Supreme Court Office (1842-51) and later as 1st clerk (1851-62) - entering and indexing warrants of attorney, pardons and appeals, copies of wills to be made up and despatched to attorneys, filing of ecclesiastical accounts, death warrants, certificate of admission of attorneys to be drawn up, recording of rules in rule books, recording of convictions in Circuit Courts etc. 1839-43, 1845-48, 1851-52, 1855, 1857-58, 1868-73 (5/2705-13). 9 vols.Note:This description is extracted from Concise Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales, 3rd Edition 2000.