New South Wales. Magistrates' Courts - Register of cases, 5 Sept - 31 Oct. 1833

MLMSS 2481

fonds

5 Sept.- 31 Oct. 1833

449193

Microfilm : CY 1854, frames 1-146 (MLMSS 2481)

1 volume - 0.07 Meters
Textual Records - (manuscript)

The first Bench of Magistrates was convened in Sydney on 19 February 1788. By 1800 sittings were held regularly in Parramatta and the Hawkesbury district, and the use of magisterial proceedings had become widespread in the Colony by the 1820s. As settlement spread during the squatting era, magistrates and their clerks performed an increasingly wide range of judicial and administrative functions. In 1832 the Courts of Petty Sessions were formally established in New South Wales. The Act allowed two or more Justices sitting together to convict transported offenders on charges. Other duties formerly performed by the Bench of Magistrates were performed by Justices in Petty Sessions. -- Lawlink website; State Records website.

A description of proceedings held in Sydney (5 Sept.-31 Oct. 1883) with preciding magistrates Charles Windeyer and Francis Ross.Contains a list of convicts giving their name, age, ship on which transported, whose service, offence and length of sentence.

Alphabetical

D.S. Mitchell signature.