VPRS 1108 Contract Ledgers

Full description

The Central Road Board (VA 2803) was established circa March 1853 with responsibility for the formation, construction, improvement, management and maintenance of proclaimed main roads and bridges and for the co-ordination of the works undertaken by the District Road Boards. The primary officers were the Secretary, Treasurer and an Inspector-General of Roads. The Central Road Board was abolished on 1 January 1858 and succeeded by the Department of Roads and Bridges (VA 2964) which operated under the statutory control of the Board of Land and Works (VA 744).

This series contains a summary of contracts awarded for the construction and maintenance of roads and a record of the payments made to contractors in settlement of those contracts. On each folio or double folio is the name of the contractor and a summary of the contract. Listed below under the headings of Date, Details and Price are the payments made to the contractor. Some contractors received more than one contract and the details of each are recorded on the folios pertaining to that contractor.

It would appear that separate ledgers were maintained for different types of contracts for major road construction projects and for maintenance of roads and bridges or relating to the collection of tolls.

In 2001, as part of the ARAD Project, VPRS 1108/P was reserialised as described in the table below,

VPRS 1108 /P Unit 1 to VPRS 1108 /P Unit 1
VPRS 1108 /P Unit 2 to VPRS 1108 /P Unit 2
VPRS 1108 /P Unit 3 to VPRS 12658/P1 Unit 1
VPRS 1108 /P Unit 4 to VPRS 1108 /P Unit 3
VPRS 1108 /P Unit 5 to VPRS 12659/P1 Unit 1
VPRS 1108 /P Unit 6 to VPRS 1108 /P Unit 4
VPRS 1108 /P Unit 7 to VPRS 1108 /P Unit 5
VPRS 1108 /P Unit 8 to VPRS 12659/P1 Unit 2
VPRS 1108 /P Unit 9 to VPRS 12659/P1 Unit 3
VPRS 1108 /P Unit 10 to VPRS 12659/P1 Unit 4
VPRS 1108 /P Unit 11 to VPRS 12659/P1 Unit 5
VPRS 1108 /P Unit 12 to VPRS 12659/P1 Unit 6
VPRS 1108 /P Unit 13 to VPRS 12659/P1 Unit 7
VPRS 1108 /P Unit 14 to VPRS 12664/P1 Unit 1
VPRS 1108 /P Unit 15 to VPRS 12659/P1 Unit 8
VPRS 1108 /P Unit 16 to VPRS 12659/P1 Unit 9
VPRS 1108 /P Unit 17 to VPRS 12660/P1 Unit 1
VPRS 1108 /P Unit 18 to VPRS 12665/P1 Unit 1
VPRS 1108 /P Unit 19 to VPRS 12661/P1 Unit 1
VPRS 1108 /P Unit 20 to VPRS 12662/P1 Unit 1
VPRS 1108 /P Unit 21 to VPRS 12663/P1 Unit 1

The P1 consignment of this series was previously registered as VPRS 1143 units 9 & 10. It was reserialised in 2001 as part of the ARAD Project.