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Series No. 675
Series Title  CORRESPONDENCE FILES
Start Date  1 Oct 1883
End Date  23 Mar 1983
Contents Start Date  24 Mar 1883
Contents End Date  -
Series Description  This record series comprises the main file series for the Colonial Secretary's Office/Chief Secretary's Department for the post-1883 period.

In 1883, the central registry of the Colonial Secretary's Office changed the way it indexed and filed the office's correspondence. Related correspondence was attached to one file. After 1895, copies of outward correspondence were also attached to the relevant file (a set of outward letterbooks had been maintained up to that time).

This filing system remained essentially unchanged throughout the 20th Century until the Chief Secretary's Department was abolished.

The correspondence files deal with all functions the office had oversight or control of. The extent of the Colonial/Chief Secretary's responsibilities early in the 20th century is shown by the range of subjects the files document. Such responsibilities included the administration of Mental Health, Prisons, Harbours and Lights, Aboriginal Affairs, the Perth Observatory, the State Shipping Service, Swan River Ferries, Horse Racing, Theatre Licensing, Sunday entertainments and Censorship. Most of the files which cover the post-WWII period concern the administration of either the Fire Brigades Act or the Charitable Collections Act.

(Special note: Only those files for the periods 1883-1890, 1901, 1918-1973 have so far been listed on this database. Colonial Secretary's Office files for the period 1891-1917 - excluding 1901 - are not currently searchable via this database. Use of the Colonial Secretary's Office Indexes and Registers held at the State Records Office Search Room is needed to identify individual files for this period. It is estimated that the remaining files for the 1891-1917 period total app. 30,000 files).
Original Format  Files
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Arrangement  Annual single number
Bridging Aids  -
Copies  -
Series Access Status  Open access (some restrictions apply as marked)
 
Current agency responsible 
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Preceding Series 
2941 CORRESPONDENCE - INWARDS 30 Dec 1828 ~ 31 Dec 1878   Detail
 
Succeeding Series 
3067 FILES - DEPARTMENTAL 30 Dec 1982 ~ 23 Dec 1983   Detail
 
Related Series 
4023 MINUTES OF MEETINGS 11 Jan 1921 ~   Detail
4025 MINUTES OF MEETINGS 22 Feb 1929 ~   Detail
4028 MINUTES OF MEETINGS 1 Jan 1926 ~   Detail
 
Controlling Series 
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Controlled Series 
3753 INDEX CARDS 1 Jan 1919 ~   Detail
 
Activities documented by this series 
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Agencies creating this series 
103 COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE 1 Oct 1883 ~ 16 Apr 1924   Detail
240 CHIEF SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT 16 Apr 1924 ~ 23 Mar 1983   Detail
 
Record Items in this series 
1883/0001 B.D. Clarkson - That he be allowed to retain the sum of 74.17.6 due by him to the estate of the late - McDonald, a shepherd who died in his employ, as a set off against the loss of 200 sheep consequent on his McDonald's death. 15 Oct 1883 ~ 6 Nov 1883   Detail
1883/0002 Susan Cartright - Seeks out door relief 18 Oct 1883 ~ 23 Oct 1883   Detail
1883/0003 Superintendent of Poor Houses - Admission of paupers Sam Skelton and James Thompson into Mount Eliza Depot 17 Oct 1883 ~ 20 Oct 1883   Detail
1883/0007 Registrar Supreme Court - Vote by Judicial Departments under sub heads "Inquests" and "Court Houses", Expenses, insufficient to meet liabilities to close of year. 18 Oct 1883 ~ 10 Nov 1883   Detail
1883/0008 Police Magistrate, Perth - That Alexander Sutherland a juvenile offender be brought under the operations of the "Industrial Schools Act of 1874" Papers enclosed: 132/1883 18 Oct 1883 ~ 28 Nov 1883   Detail
1883/0010 Superintendent of Police - Whips four in hand imported from England being useless for Police or mail service recommend their exchange for others from A. Letch 2 Oct 1883 ~ 23 Jan 1884   Detail
1883/0011 Postmaster General - Further sum of 310 required under sub head "Conveyance of Mails between England & Colony" 18 Oct 1883 ~ 6 Nov 1883   Detail
1883/0012 Superintendent Rottnest Prison - Warder Dumnall reported by Colonial Surgeon unfit for duty. Papers enclosed: 13/1883, 137/1883, 460/1883 3 Oct 1883 ~ 19 Nov 1883   Detail
1883/0015 Resident Magistrate Fremantle - Julia Lindsey, pauper aged 55 applied for relief 20 Oct 1883 ~ 23 Oct 1883   Detail
1883/0016 Superintendent Rottnest Prison - Vote for Rottnest Prison Department sub head "Incidental Maintenance" Of Guard insufficient 20 Oct 1883 ~ 8 Nov 1883   Detail
1883/0017 Superintendent Rottnest Prison - Tabulated Statement of Prisoners on the Island 13 Oct 1883 ~ 7 May 1884   Detail
1883/0018 Superintendent of Police - Leymour v Budges. For copy of depositions in case of 18 Oct 1883 ~ 3 Nov 1883   Detail
1883/0019 Sir Julius Vogel K.C.M.G. - The Australian Government guarantee Cable Co. against loss, that the Govt. of W.A. do not support 10 Oct 1883 ~ 22 Oct 1883   Detail
1883/0021 Comptroller of Convicts - Detention of imperial prisoner Thomas Smith at Rottnest Papers enclosed: 161/1883 4 Oct 1883 ~ 27 Oct 1883   Detail
1883/0022 Mess' Sandover & Mayhew - Claiming refund of dutys on tobacco consigned to them and Governor of Telegraph Department. Sample included 24 Mar 1883 ~ 15 Nov 1883   Detail
 

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