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Colonial Secretary Correspondence

Top of Colonial Secretary Correspondence List of Periodical Returns required to be furnished by the various Departments of the Government c.1831 (From the original in State Records [4/7019])

Revenue


By whom furnishedNature of ReturnPeriod

Colonial Treasurer

State of the Treasury

Weekly

Statement of money received and expended

Monthly

Nominal List of persons to whom advances have been made, and not adjusted

Quarterly

Banks of New South Wales and Australia

Account Current with the Colonial Treasurer

Monthly

Statement of Establishment

Half Yearly

Auditor General

Abstract of Statement of Extraordinary Expenses, approved by the Secretary of State, forwarded to the Treasury, or Audit Office, in England

Quarterly

Statement of Colonial Revenue and Expenditure

Annually

Statement of Remittances to, & disbursements by Colonial Agent

Annually

Crown Book & Statistical Tables

Annually

Deputy Commissary General

Abstract of Statements of Extraordinary Expenses as above

Quarterly

Statement of Stores ordered to be supplied, but not in Store

Monthly

Statement of Stores etc. issued to Ships of War

Half Yearly

Statement of Persons Victualled by Government

Quarterly

General Requisition

Annually

Collector & Controller of Customs

Return of Duty collected

Monthly

Abstract of Duties received, and of the Salaries and Incidental Expenses of the Department

Quarterly

Collector of Internal Revenue

Abstract of Revenue collected

Quarterly

List of persons to whom Auctioneers Licences has been granted

Monthly

Post Master

List of Unclaimed Letters

Quarterly

Surveyor of Distilleries

——

——


Top of Colonial Secretary Correspondence Judicial

By whom furnishedNature of ReturnPeriod

Supreme Court

Report of Trials

Each Term

Return of Crime and punishment

Annually

Return of the effects of persons who have died Intestate

Quarterly

Commissioner of the Court of Requests

——

——

Clerk of the Peace

Return of Trials at Courts of Quarter Sessions

Police

Sydney. Return of cases brought before

Daily

- and -
Bathurst, Parramatta, Campbelltown, Windsor, Stonequarry, Wollongong, Maitland, Patersons Plains, Sutton Forest, Penrith


Weekly

Return of Trials in a Summary way, Sydney, Hyde Park Barracks, Bathurst, Campbelltown, Windsor, Parramatta, Stonequarry, Wollongong, Maitland, Patersons Plains, Sutton Forest, Penrith, Patricks Plains, Port Stephens, Goulburn plains, Merton, Inverary, Bringelly, Liverpool, Newcastle, Cookbundoon, Invermein, Portland-head, Mount Vittoria, Argyle, Road Station

Monthly

Sheriff

Returns of Prisoners etc confined with transcripts of the Entrance and Description Books, from Gaols Sydney and Hulk, and Parramatta, Windsor, Bathurst, Campbell Town, Liverpool, Newcastle

Weekly

- and -
Gaol Sydney and Hulk Returns


Monthly

Returns of Executions

Annually

Coroner's

——

——


Top of Colonial Secretary Correspondence Convict

By whom furnishedNature of ReturnPeriod

Convict Department

Return of absentees from Hyde Park Barracks

Daily

Return of prisoners in Government Employ, Hyde Park Barracks, and Carters Barracks Sydney; Grose Farm & Longbottom, Parramatta, Windsor; Liverpool, Bathurst, Emu Plains, Newcastle, Wellington Valley

Weekly

Return of the Average number of Convicts employed in the several Departments and Establishments of the Government

Return of the average number of Convicts necessarily maintained by the Government

Return of all Tickets of Leave granted with a Statement of the Prisoners original sentence; and of the circumstances which have led to their receiving this Indulgence

Annually

Return of the Convicts who have escaped from the Colony

Annually

Return of all pardons whether Free or Conditional granted

Annually

Return of Assignments revoked

Annually

Matron of Female Factory

Return of Women

Weekly

Director of Public Works

Return of Employment of men in the Lumber Yard

Weekly

Mineral Surveyor

Return of Work performed

Weekly

Botanic Garden

Return of Seeds etc., distributed

Quarterly

Report of Superintendent

Annually

Master Attendant

Return of Employment of Govt Boats

Weekly

Roads

Return of Men employed on the Roads

Weekly

Report of Work performed

Monthly

List of Men lent during Harvest


Top of Colonial Secretary Correspondence Miscellaneous

By whom furnishedNature of ReturnPeriod

Surveyor General

Return of Grants of Land authorised

Half Monthly

Return of applications for the purchase of Land

Monthly

Return of applications for Renting Land

Monthly

Return of applications for Town allotments

Monthly

Report Geographical and Topographical

Half Yearly

Report Geological

Half Yearly

Return of Lands granted

Annually

Clerical

Return of Baptisms, Marriages & Burials, Sydney. Parish of St Philip, Parish of St James, and Scotch Presbyterian and Roman Catholic — Parramatta, Argyle, Bathurst, Campbelltown, Castlereagh, Field of Mars, Liverpool, Narellan, Newcastle, Pitt town, Portland Head, Richmond, Sackville-reach, Windsor, Maitland

Quarterly

Medical

Report of Patients in Hospital Sydney, Parramatta, Female Orphan Schools, Female Factory, Liverpool, Windsor, Bathurst, Newcastle

Weekly

Return of Lunatics in Asylum

Monthly

Return of the number of Sick treated in Hospital and Expenditure of Medicines

Annually

Live Stock furnished by the Superintendents

Returns of, at Emu Plains, Bathurst, Wellington Valley, Grose Farm and Longbottom, Newcastle

Monthly

Agricultural Produce

Return of - at Emu Plains, Wellington Valley and Grose Farm, and Longbottom

Monthly


Top of Colonial Secretary Correspondence Distant Settlements

By whom furnishedNature of ReturnPeriod

Moreton Bay and Norfolk Island

Monthly Return of Live Stock

Monthly

Return of all the Convicts and their Employment

Monthly

Return of Land under Cultivation

Monthly

Return of Agricultural Produce

Monthly

Return of Public Works in progress

Monthly

Return of Provisions on hand and time calculated to last

Monthly (This Return is also furnished up to the date of a Vessel leaving)

Return of the whole population, and the numbers of each class in and out of Hospital, being an abstract of the Daily Register of the Surgeon

Monthly

Return of Trials in a Summary way

Monthly

Return of all the Convicts on the Settlement

Half Yearly

Return of all Buildings carried on, showing the Estimated Expense, and the Expenditure which has taken place

Annually

Manifests of Cargo, Lists of Prisoners etc. returned, supplies required, by private Individuals etc. etc made up to date of Vessel sailing

Port Macquarie

Return of Prisoners in the Service of Government

Monthly

Return of Live Stock

Monthly

Return of Agricultural Produce

Monthly

Return of Land under Cultivation

Monthly

Estimate of Provisions on hand made up to the date of Vessel sailing

Manifests of Cargo etc (as above)


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