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431572
  • Title
    Tasmania. Comptroller-General of Convicts - Forms in use in the Convict Department 1855-1856 also Port Arthur returns 1874-1877
  • Creator
  • Call number
    A 2126
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    1855-1856, 1874-1877
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    431572
  • Physical Description
    1 volume - 0.02 Meters
    Textual Records - (manuscript)
    Textual Records - (printed)
  • Scope and Content
    Forms predominantly issued by the Civil Commandant and Police Magistrate. Includes the following:
    Summary for Extras for the Month of .... as prescribed by Medical Officers (5 blank sheets)
    Lunatic Branch Establishment No. Rations (4 blank sheets)
    Port Arthur. Return showing the Number and Description at Port Arthur
    Penal Establishment, Port Arthur. Return shewing [i.e. showing] the state of the Seperate Prison at Port Arthur
    Money List. The Superintendent House of Correction for Males, Hobart Town. Civil Commandant (2 blank sheets)
    Port Arthur. Daily Ration State [and] names of men whose tobacco only is stopped as punishment. 6th to 15th July 1874 (8 forms with data) [These forms have also been re-used in red ink for the dates 18th - 27th Sept. in decending order from previous dates]
    Way Bill. List of receipt of articles from the Schooner Harriet, 1877 [used form]
    Police Force, Tasmania. Requisition for Police Clothing (3 forms, with blank date for 190-)
    Facsmilie copy of sentencing form under the power of Sir William Thomas Denison Knight.
    CONVICT DEPARTMENT
    Series of blank forms from the Convict Department, Comptroller-General's Office numbered 2, 6, 8, 16, 20-22, 24, 34, 35, 39, 41, 44, 45, 47-50, 53, 56, 62, 68, 77, 78, 84-87. Includes Certificates of Freedom, Ticket of Leave, delivery into custody, applications and permission to marry, nominal return of convicts received, return of all engagements entered into between employees and passholders, absconded, abstract of acquitances of the salaries of ..., fixed contingent abstract, provision form, and certificate of employment.
  • General note

    Some documents are looseleaf whilst others have been hand-stitched together.
    "D.S. Mitchell" signature on front cover.
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    No.3 / Patterns of Printed Firms / Estimated for the Year / 1855-56 handwritten on paper label on front of volume.
    "Printed Convict Forms" handwitten in black ink on spine.
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