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Prisoners Barracks, Hobart - Salary Abstracts of Officers employed.
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Start Date:
01 Jun 1844
End Date:
31 May 1852
Creating Agency:
01 Jan 181831 Dec 1877
Series notes:
The monthly abstracts of salaries of the officers staffing the Prisoner's Barracks are set out as follows: the first two columns list each man's situation and name, and the columns that follow show the period dealt with, the officer's yearly and (in some cases) daily salary, the gross amount in sterling for the month, the amount of income tax taken, and finally the next amount for the month. This is totalled. Only a small number of officers, such as the superintendent and certain overseers, are taxed: this is because they are in the Imperial Service; in accordance with legislation indicated by an instruction issued by Lord Stanley in December 1842,114 they are liable to taxation, while officers under the colonial service are not. The instruction stated that all salaries and personal allowances paid from the revenues of Great Britain were to be taxed at the rate of 7d. in the pound except in cases where the annual income did not amount to 150 pounds. However, incomes of 100 pounds also became taxable soon afterwards. The majority of the Officers and Constables at the Barracks are employees of the Colonial Service. They include a clerk, a storekeeper, a miller, a gatekeeper, and a number of constables.

There also appear in this book abstracts of salaries of officers employed at the Old Wharf station.

These records are part of the holdings of the Tasmanian Archives
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