NRS-961 | Copies of letters sent: Confidential

This volume includes instructions and circulars of a confidential nature, letters on disciplinary matters such as a long reproof to Thomas Mitchell for his "neglect of duty and disobedience of orders", correspondence about irregularities in the sale of town allotments at Port Phillip in 1840, a letter to Captain Sulivan dated 3 November 1842 about occurrences at Tahiti; and instructions in 1834 to police magistrates requiring them to furnish confidential reports on crime, police, convicts and any other matters in their districts which it might be useful for the government to know about. There is also a letter dated 15 March 1836 concerning the Governor's decision to supply seed wheat, as an emergency measure, to the Windsor farmers against their notes of hand to repay at cost price, a policy which was also followed by Gipps in 1839, together with other correspondence on the supply of wheat in the latter year of the drought. There are also various letters to Captain Maconochie about his private "pecuniary transactions" and some to Latrobe in Port Phillip including one of 17 December 1842 which refuses Mr Justice Willis's request to allow an information ex officio to be filed for alleged libels on him and contains the Governor's terse suggestion that the judge "refrain from such harangues as he is in the habit of delivering from the bench". (4/3664; microfilm copy SR Reel 2997). 1 vol. Note:This description is based on Concise Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales, 3rd Edition 2000.

本卷宗涵盖各类机密指示与通告、涉及纪律事项的信函——例如对托马斯·米切尔（Thomas Mitchell）因其“玩忽职守、违抗命令”作出的长篇斥责；1840年菲利普港（Port Phillip）城镇地块出售违规事宜的往来函件；1842年11月3日致萨利文船长（Captain Sulivan）、谈及塔希提（Tahiti）发生事件的信函；1834年发给治安法官的指示，要求其就辖区内的犯罪、治安、罪犯及其他政府有必要知悉的相关事项提交机密报告。
另有1836年3月15日的信函，涉及总督为应对紧急情况，向温莎（Windsor）农场主供应种子小麦，农场主以成本价开具本票（notes of hand）偿还；该政策与1839年吉普斯（Gipps）推行的政策一致，另附1839年旱灾期间小麦供应相关的其他往来函件。
本卷宗还包含致麦克诺奇船长（Captain Maconochie）的多封涉及其私人“财务往来”的信函，以及致菲利普港的拉特罗布（Latrobe）的多封信函：其中1842年12月17日的信函拒绝了威利斯大法官（Mr Justice Willis）依职权（ex officio）就其被控遭受诽谤一事提交起诉书的请求，并简短建议该法官“克制其在法官席上惯常发表的长篇演说”。
本卷宗编号为4/3664，缩微胶片副本为SR胶卷2997号，共计1卷。附注：本描述基于2000年第3版《新南威尔士州档案馆（State Archives of New South Wales）简明指南》。