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Series Details

Series Number: CSO18
Title: INDEX TO GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, "RECORD BRANCH".
Start Date: 01 Jan 1841
End Date: 31 Dec 1845
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Access: Open
Creating Agency:
• TA151 COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE (1) 01 Jan 1825 31 Dec 1856
Description (Content/Function):

This index is compiled along similar lines to CSO10 and CSO13, and the same remarks as to arrangement and information given which appears under those series apply here. The alphabeting is by the first two letters.

An analysis of the principal general headings gives an idea of the subject area covered by CSO16: Bushrangers; Ceylon; Colonial Agent; Convict Ships; Convicts; Emigration; Estimates; Fuel (Government Offices); Government Printer; India; Lands; New South Wales; New Zealand; Newspapers; Norfolk Island; Offices (furniture, rent, etc.); Pardons; Port Phillip; Returns; Sheriff; South Australia; Stationery; Sydney: Western Australia.

The volume number in which a file is to be found not being entered, the register (CSO17) must be used to locate it.
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Controlled Series:
• CSO16  CORRESPONDENCE, "RECORD BRANCH". 01 Jan 1841 31 Dec 1845
Related Series:
• CSO17 REGISTER OF GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, "RECORD BRANCH". 01 Jan 1841 31 Dec 1845
Items in Series:
• CSO18/1/1  01 Jan 1841 31 Dec 1845