NRS-636 | Rough minute books [Board of National Education]

Full description

These volumes contain rough minutes of weekly and extraordinary meetings of the Board of Commissioners of National Education. Rough minutes show date of meeting and names of Commissioners present. Minutes for 1849 normally indicate the substance of letters received and matters tabled and resolutions of the Board; later minutes are very brief and appear to function more as rough agenda of matters to be raised at meetings, in some cases neither specific details of matters to be considered by the Board nor the Board's decision being given.

These volumes do include an alphabetic "tabulation of places where schools have been applied for to be established under the superintendence of the Board of National Education", August 1854 (showing place, amount pledged for building purposes, teacher's salary, number of children in the district where the school is sought, the amount of money locally subscribed, and remarks). In some cases minutes of special meetings held to enquire into complaints against officers of the Board (eg. "against the Inspector and Superintendent" - June 1860) are also included.

(1/327 part-330 part). 4 vols.

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This description is extracted from Concise Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales, 3rd Edition 2000.