VPRS 14340 Register of Inward Correspondence, Local, Bendigo District Land Office

This series consists of the register of inward correspondence maintained at the Bendigo District Land Office. At the District Office, correspondence was received both directly and on reference from the Melbourne Office of the Department of Crown Lands and Survey (VA 538). Details able to be entered in the register are the local office number, the date received, the Head Office number, the name of the correspondent, the subject of the correspondence, any instructions from Head Office for action by the District Land Office or instructions for action on local pieces of correspondence and how the correspondence was disposed of.For the period 1876-1892, the Bendigo District land Office registered locally originating correspondence separately fronm that forwarded from Head Office. The details entered are the same. Correspondence might eventually be forwarded to local land officers anfd those in other districts or might be forwarded to Head Office in Melbourne for eventual attachment to a file. Matters in the correspondence related to applications, payments of rents and fees, survey matters and correspondence relating to the administration of the District Land Office.For the years prior to 1876 and after 1892, local and Head Office correspondence was recorded in the same register (see VPRS 14339 and VPRS 14342).VPRS 14340 / P2 was previously registered as VPRS 1658 / P Correspondence Register

本系列数据集包含本迪戈地区土地办公室（Bendigo District Land Office）留存的收件函件登记册。该地区办公室的函件来源分为两类：一是直接接收的函件，二是由皇家土地与测量部墨尔本办公室（Department of Crown Lands and Survey (VA 538)）转递的函件。登记册可记录的信息包括：本地办公室编号、接收日期、总办公室编号、发件人姓名、函件主题、总办公室下达给本地区土地办公室的行动指令，或针对本地函件的处理指令，以及函件的最终处置方式。1876年至1892年期间，本迪戈地区土地办公室将本地发出的函件与总办公室转来的函件分开登记，二者记录的信息内容一致。此类函件最终可被转送至本地土地官员、其他地区的土地官员，或送至墨尔本总办公室，最终归入档案卷宗。函件所涉内容涵盖各类申请、租金与费用缴纳、测量相关事务，以及本地区土地办公室的行政管理相关函件。1876年之前及1892年之后的本地与总办公室函件，则统一登记于同一份登记册中（详见VPRS 14339与VPRS 14342）。VPRS 14340 / P2 原登记编号为 VPRS 1658 / P《函件登记册》。