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423580
  • Title
    Miscellaneous papers regarding land, mainly 1830-1856
  • Creator
  • Call number
    A 282
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    mainly 1830-1856 (with other items dated 1816, 1821, 1866, 1869-1870, 1877)
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    423580
  • Issue Copy
    Microfilm : CY 887, frames 1-211 (A 282)
  • Physical Description
    1 volume - 0.06 Meters
    Textual Records
    Textual Records - (printed)
    Clippings
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    During the period 1830-1856, the main agencies responsible for the administration of land in the Colony were the Colonial Secretary (Alexander Macleay 1826-1836, Edward Deas Thomson 1837-1856), the Surveyor General (Sir Thomas Mitchell), and the Commissioners of Crown Lands. The phrase "land grants" was used for the alienation of Crown lands (that led to the granting of freehold title). -- Reference: State Records, N.S.W. Online, Feb. 2003 ; Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol.2, 1788-1850. Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1967
  • Scope and Content
    1816, 1827, 1830-1834, 1836-1837, 1839-1843, 1848-1856, 1866, 1869-1870, 1877; Papers regarding the conveyance of the property, proof of title, grants of land, and quit-rents from the Crown. Includes correspondence from various sources, receipts from Internal Revenue, general orders, terms upon which the Crown Lands were dispatched in N.S.W. and Van Diemen's Land, certificates of purchase, returns of the alienation and unalienated lands in the colony (1841), list of amounts received from sale of Crown Lands (1824-1840), list of employees in the Surveyors General Department, receipts and expenditure of territorial revenue for 1849-1852, applications to lease land, and returns and expenditure for department of the Chief Commissioner of Crown Lands (G.W. Barney) for 1851
  • General note

    This volume was probably compiled by the State Library of NSW at an unknown date. It is uncertain that this material originated from D.S. Mitchell collection.
    A handwritten contents list, compiled at an unknown date, has been inserted at the front of the volume
    Pages 275-277 (Lists of feature survey plans burnt and destroyed in the late Garden Palace fire) were donated by Mr Weingarth
    D.S. Mitchell bookplate inside front cover
    "D.S. Mitchell" signature appears on reverse of p. 187
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