NRS-909 | Governor's and Colonial Secretary's Minutes and Memoranda

Full description

These form a separate series but have a close relationship with the In-Letters with cross-referencing in the Registers of each.

Some minutes for 1826-1927 are connected to registered in-letters and put away with them in number order. Others are put away in registered minute number order in a separate bundle for each year, and have been shelved together NRS 909 [4/983-1072].

Minutes for 1870-1915, are in separate bundles shelved with the registered in-letters of each year. After 1915 minutes are connected to correspondence and not put away separately.

The following two sheets (estrays) have been added to M3739 [not in 4/999] (NRS-905, 4/2316.3): Letter from J. Pinnock, Agent-General for Emigration, in Cork, to Sir Richard Bourke, Governor of New South Wales, 26 May 1836, transmitting a certificate signed by members of the Emigration Committee of Cork and by clergymen of the City of Cork, recommending the young women emigrants aboard the "Duchess of Northumberland". (1)

All minutes are registered in the registers NRS-910, NRS-911 and NRS-912.

See Colonial Secretary Correspondence Guide for an item list.

Endnote
1. The Colonist (Sydney, NSW), 6 October 1836, p.3; Disposal Recommendation DR1706.

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