Tasmanian police letters, 1827-1829

DLADD 573
DLADD 573/248-252

fonds

1827-1829

950617

1 volume of textual material - manuscript - 36 cm.

Letters concerning police matters mainly at Hobart and Launceston in 1828 and 1829. Thomas Lascelles, Principle Superintendent of Police, and the Launceston police officer, A.W.H. Humphrey are chiefly mentioned.

DLADD 573/248

Letter, dated 15 October 1827, to H.J. Emmett, asking to be lent the copy of the Sydney Almanack for 1822 or 1823 containing Governor Brisbane's order against persons working on Sunday.

DLADD 573/249

Letter, dated January 1828, to H.J. Emmett, asking for the Harbouring Act; with Emmett's note in reply.

DLADD 573/250

Letter, 23 January 1828, to H.J. Emmett, asking him for order prohibiting vessels fromgoing to Birch's Bay and for the Harbouring Act; with Emmett's note in reply.

DLADD 573/251

Copy of letter, dated 18 September 1828, to the Colonial Secretary, about the conviction of Jame s Robb and John Fox for stealing cabbages out of the Government Garden at Newtown.

DLADD 573/252

Letter, dated Brigade Majors Office, Hobart Town, 15 November 1828, to the Colonial Secretary, reporting that the watchmen in front of the latter's office had been found asleep.

Information transferred from Dixson Manuscript Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012.

DLADD 573/248-252 are supplementary material considered to be mainly Tasmanian Archival Estrays