NRS-16104 | Secretary's Office: documents concerning land titles

This series contains (i) Index of Deeds belonging to the Railway Commissioners of N.S.W., prepared by Messrs Norton Smith Westgarth and Co., Solicitors, of 20 Martin Place, Sydney; (ii) receipts, receipted lists and acknowledgements of receipt by the Secretary's Office, Government Railways of N.S.W., of documents of land title forwarded by Mr Robert Smith of 2 O'Connell Street; and (iii) an original land grant and a conveyance, dated respectively 7th August, 1837 and 13th August, 1852.Custody HistoryFrom 1955 until 2000 the State Rail Authority of New South Wales maintained an ‘in house archives’ consisting of the archival records of the Authority, its predecessor agencies and the private railway companies taken over by the government. The date ranges of the records were from 1849 until 2000. When the decision was made to close the ‘State Rail Archives’ the parts of the collection that were required as State archives were transferred to the State Records Authority of NSW. Those record series were incorporated into the State Records series system of archives control and were re-numbered.This series was formerly part of the State Rail Archives collection. It may have been viewed in the State Rail Archives as series R267 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.