NRS-22453 | Unsettled Claims Files (Appropriations and Resumptions)

Full description

Series consists of files mainly containing documents which established the authority of the Railways Administration to appropriate and resume land for the development of lines, maintenance of existing lines and other facilities.

Documents include Commissioners' minutes to Public Works requesting Executive Council approval to resume land under the Public Works Acts (1888, 1900, 1912) proposed schedules, diagrams, reference to and sometimes Gazettal Notices.

The documentation usually indicates the progress of a claim. In some files there is lengthy correspondence from the estate agent to interested parties. Some files have abstracts of claims and certificates of identity. Item start and end dates are circa only. The series is alpha numeric; each file has an alphanumeric title e.g. A13, V2, the letter corresponding to the location of the land in question and the number allocated sequentially.

Custody History

From 1955 until 2000 the State Rail Authority of New South Wales maintained an 'in house archives' consisting of the archival records of the Authority, its predecessor agencies and the private railway companies taken over by the government. The date ranges of the records were from 1849 until 2000. When the decision was made to close the 'State Rail Archives' the parts of the collection that were required as State archives were transferred to the State Records Authority of NSW. Those record series were incorporated into the State Records series system of archives control and were re-numbered.

This series was formerly part of the State Rail Archives collection where it was identified as series R118. It may have been viewed in the State Rail Archives as series R118 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.