NRS-21565 | Primary Application Search Sketches

Search Sketches (S.S.) were once regularly prepared as part of the investigation and processing of a Primary Application i.e. an application by a registered land owner to convert their land from Old System land title to the Torrens system of title.Search Sketches are plans drawn by Primary Application examiners to provide a graphical representation of the land described in the documents that form the chain of title that supports an applicant's claim to title as disclosed in their Primary Application. Often these documents in the chain only provide a description of the land, with no reference to a plan or diagram, these sketches are therefore useful in identifying the land parcels in these documents and any successive subdivisional actions over these parcels.Many Search Sketches trace ownership from the first Crown Grant but others from a later deed as required for the investigation of the Primary Application. Search Sketches bear the same reference as their related Primary Application and are an invaluable aid to anyone searching an Old System chain of title.Records in this set exclusively consist of sketches compiled to support (or repudiate) claims lodged as part of the Primary Application Official Search process, and are referenced by the Primary Application number allocated to the original Official Search. Records are organised numerically by this number; however are only arranged loosely into empty covers which are fastened with legal tape. Although most records only consist of one sheet, sketches with multiple sheets were kept together with split pins. This series has been prepared for preservation digitisation.

搜索草图（Search Sketches，S.S.）曾作为初级申请（Primary Application）调查与处理流程的常规组成部分，此类申请指已注册土地所有权人将其土地从旧制度土地权属转为托伦斯权属制度（Torrens system of title）的申请。搜索草图由初级申请审查员绘制，用于以图形化方式呈现初级申请文件中提及的、支撑申请人权属主张的权属链文件所描述的土地。此类权属链文件往往仅载明土地描述信息，未附带平面图或示意图，因此这类草图可用于识别上述文件中的土地地块，以及后续针对这些地块开展的所有宗地细分操作。多数搜索草图的权属追溯起点为首次王室授产（Crown Grant），也有部分草图根据初级申请调查的需要，以较晚的契约作为起始点绘制。搜索草图与其关联的初级申请采用相同的编号标识，对于检索旧制度权属链的人员而言是极为宝贵的辅助工具。本数据集的记录仅包含为支撑或驳斥初级申请官方检索（Official Search）流程中提交的权属主张而编制的草图，且以原始官方检索所分配的初级申请编号作为引用依据。记录按该编号进行数字排序，但仅松散收纳于用法律胶带封装的空封皮中。尽管多数记录仅为单页图纸，但多页草图则用开口销（split pins）固定在一起。本系列档案已完成数字化保存准备工作。