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Series No. 844
Series Title  COMMITMENT BOOKS
Start Date  19 Mar 1886
End Date  1 Jan 1932
Contents Start Date  -
Contents End Date  -
Series Description  Commitment Book for Aboriginal native prisoners and reformatory boys (at back of book). For Aboriginal prisoners it shows registration number, name, date of commitment, date of arrival, crime, sentence, tribe, magistrate, when due for discharge, when discharged. For reformatory boys it shows number, name, date of commitment, offence, sentence, remarks. It also includes a "register of natives incarcerated on Rottnest Prison on January 1st 1899" and a "register of native prisoners transferred from Rottnest for purpose of completing the terms of their sentences elsewhere".

Original Format  Volumes
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Arrangement  Numerical
Bridging Aids  -
Copies  MICROFILM
Series Access Status  -
 
Current agency responsible 
218 DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIVE SERVICES [1] 3 Apr 1987 ~ 1 Jan 1993   Detail
 
Preceding Series 
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Succeeding Series 
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Controlling Series 
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Controlled Series 
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Activities documented by this series 
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Agencies creating this series 
219 ROTTNEST GAOL 19 Mar 1886 ~   Detail
 
Record Items in this series 
OCC 25 Commitment Book 19 Mar 1886 ~ 19 Apr 1900   Detail

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