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Register of Outwards Correspondence [also known as Outwards Letter Book]

Public Record Office Victoria
Melbourne Courts (Owned by) Rupanyup Courts (Has creator)
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Successive Instructions to Clerks of Courts specified the creation of Registers of letters and other communications, both inwards and outwards to be kept according to a specified format. By the issue of the 1939 Instructions, these registers were referred to as Letter Books.
The Instructions specified that in cases of importance (a term which was not defined), copies of communications outwards should be written in the (outward) letter register. By 1939 this instruction had been refined to read that all outwards correspondence should be entered in the outward letter books and that copies of communications outwards should be kept in the Office for cases of importance.

Outwards registers recorded the date of despatch, to whom sent, subject detail and postage costs.

Created: 1936 to 1936

Data time period: 1936 to 1936

Data time period: Series date range : 1936 - 1936
Series in custody date range : 1936 - 1936
Contents in custody date range : 1936 - 1936

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  • Local : VPRS 4588