GUIDE TO THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF TASMANIA

SECTION ONE

COLONIAL SECRETARY’S OFFICE

by P.R. Eldershaw

HOBART

ARCHIVES OFFICE OF TASMANIA

1957

(Revised 1988)

© STATE of TASMANIA, ARCHIVES OFFICE OF TASMANIA

CONTENTS

GENERAL INTRODUCTION - The Colonial Secretary's Office

PART 1 - General correspondence records, registers, indexes and transmission registers

PART 2 - Letterbooks of outward correspondence

PART 3 - Unregistered correspondence records

PART 4 - Financial, statistical and Public Service returns

PART 5 - Official gazetted documents

PART 6 - Deeds and other instruments deposited with the Colonial Secretary

PART 7 - Miscellaneous series

APPENDIX A - Succession of Secretaries and Colonial Secretaries

APPENDIX B - List of the records available for Lieutenant-Governors' periods

APPENDIX C - References