VPRS 12142 Miscellaneous Licenses Register

One of the key responsibilities of the License Branch of the Department of the Treasurer was to issue license forms to Licensing Courts established throughout Victoria. The various types of license forms were then authorised and issued to successful applicants at court.The licenses detailed in this series were categorised as Miscellaneous, that is, not being categorised under the title of 238A or 238B for which many other license types were. As at September 1999 the significance of these categorisations is not apparent. The following license types are brought together under the Miscellaneous title, and mainly relate to various types of merchants:Cutter and CarterJinker (Red Gum)Surface Stone and SandShells / SeaweedStone (for various localities)DepasturingGarden RenewalsGravelMarine Stores & Old Metals Act Dealers and CollectorsFactory RegistrationAfter 1957, licenses for Business Agents and Hawkers, and Miners Rights hitherto the domain of 238B Licenses, becomes classified under the Miscellaneous title.This series was maintained by the License Branch, Department of the Treasurer, as a record of the number of license forms received from the Government Printers Office, and subsequently distributed to Licensing Courts throughout Victoria. Entries were made on a bimonthly basis, with two pages allocated for each bimonthly time period. On the first page the amount of each type of license received by the License branch from the Government printer was listed. A total balance of license forms in the custody of the Branch was also entered. On the second page the total number of license forms forwarded to each Licensing Court was entered, as well as totals forwarded for each license type.VPRS 12140 238A Licenses Register and VPRS 12141 238B Licenses Register contains similar details for other categories of license from 1919 to 1962 and 1908 to 1966 respectively.

维多利亚州国库部（Department of the Treasurer）牌照科（License Branch）的核心职责之一，是向遍布维多利亚州的各发牌法庭（Licensing Courts）发放牌照表格。各类牌照表格经审核授权后，会在法庭内发放给申领成功的申请人。本系列所收录的牌照均归类为「杂项牌照」，即未归入238A或238B类别——此前多数其他牌照类型均归属于这两类编号下。截至1999年9月，此类分类的具体意义已无从考证。以下各类牌照归入杂项类别，主要涵盖各类商户资质：木材切割与货运商、红胶木（Red Gum）运输商、饰面石材与砂石商户、贝壳/海藻商户、特定地区石材供应商、牧场放牧许可、园艺场地更新许可、砾石商户、《海事物资与旧金属法》（Marine Stores & Old Metals Act）规定的交易商与回收商、工厂注册许可。1957年之后，原本归属于238B牌照类别的商务代理、沿街小贩牌照以及矿工权许可，均归入杂项牌照类别。本系列档案由国库部牌照科负责维护，用于记录从政府印刷局（Government Printers Office）申领的牌照表格数量，以及后续向维多利亚州各发牌法庭的发放情况。档案以双月为周期进行登记录入，每个双月周期分配两页档案纸。第一页将列明牌照科从政府印刷局申领的各类牌照表格数量，并登记本部门保管的牌照表格总结余；第二页则登记发往各发牌法庭的牌照表格总数量，以及各类牌照的发放总量。编号为VPRS 12140的《238A牌照登记册》与VPRS 12141的《238B牌照登记册》分别收录了1919年至1962年、1908年至1966年间其他类别的牌照相关详细信息。