VPRS 14602 Executive Council Schedules

This series consists of Orders-in-Council relating specifically to the issue of grants and leases, which were referred to as Executive Council Schedules, or EC Schedules. Each file contained a file cover with a brief description of the issue of grant or lease, and the details of the sections and Land Acts covering them.A schedule is usually attached to the file covers, which may contain the following: names of applicants, grant or lease numbers, parish location, acreage, correspondence or land file numbers, allotment and section numbers, any special conditions the grant or lease was issued under, date of issue, term, payment, fees, and the location of the Receiver of Revenue.Each schedule was assigned an annual schedule number, which was either written or typed on the file cover of the Schedule, usually in the top right hand corner. EC numbers were often hand-written in the left hand corner of the file cover. The Executive Council stamp stating the date of approval of the Order by the Governor-in-Council was recorded at the bottom right corner of the file. The Order was submitted for the Decision of His Excellency the Governor-in-Council by the Commissioner of Crown Lands and Survey, and bears his signature and the date of submission.By 1935, an administrative change occurred within the Lands Department which saw a division of Orders-in-Council relating to lands licences and leases. By 1935, Orders-in-Council dealing with the Issue of Grants and Leases were collated in a separate series (VPRS 14602 - Executive Council Schedules), and not assigned an XC number. Orders-in-Council relating to other aspects, such as the surrender of leases and the alteration of classifications, continued to be collated in VPRS 863 (Orders-in-Council). Prior to the beginning of this series, Orders-in-Council relating to licences and leases were all registered and filed as Orders-in-Council (VPRS 863).