Tasmania. Comptroller-General of Convicts - Account of furniture &c. in the Government Cottage, 1860

B 43

fonds

1860

431566

1 volume - 0.02 Meters
Textual Records - (manuscript)

The Government Cottage was built at Port Arthur in 1853 for the use of visiting officials and dignitaries and fell under the control of the Comptroller-General of Convicts. The Rossbank Observatory was in the Queen's Domain, adjacent to Government House. -- Reference: Senior Librarian (Heritage Collections) State Libaray of of Tasmania, Dec. 2003.

[front to back]
18 April & 2 Oct. 1860 ; List of furniture and linen and their quantity for each room in the cottage including drawing rooms, dining rooms, dressing rooms, bedrooms, large and small attics, room over kitchen, hall, office, kitchen, yards, verandah,and miscellaneous items.
[back to front]
List of meteorological articles including barometer, Kew standard, terestial radiator, and measuring glass.
Distribution of revolvers [Civil Commandant and individual names and numbers with ticks for returns]

The mention of a Civil Commandant places the manuscript in Port Arthur as this position was abolished in New South Wales by 1860.
The volume is reversible as it has been used from the front and back.
"D.S.M" initials on p.i.

"Account of furniture &c. in the Government Cottage taken 18th April 1860" handwritten at front of volume.
In the same hand at the back of volume, "Account / of / Meteorological / Instruments / at the / Observatory".