Series:
Returns for the Compilation of the Annual Official, Financial and Statistical Reports.
Series Number:
Access:
Open
Start Date:
01 Jan 1826
End Date:
31 Dec 1851
Excludes Dates:
01 Jan 1828 - 31 Dec 1832
01 Jan 1834 - 31 Dec 1835
01 Jan 1839 - 31 Dec 1840
01 Jan 1845 - 31 Dec 1850
Creating Agency:
Colonial Secretary's Office (1) (TA151) | 01 Jan 1825 | 31 Dec 1856 |
Related Series:
CSO50 Draft and Duplicate Copies of the Annual Official, Financial and Statistical Reports. | 01 Jan 1822 | 31 Dec 1855 |
AE676 Statistical Returns of Tasmania | 01 Jan 1824 | 31 Dec 1836 |
CSO52 Monthly Returns of Internal Revenue. | 01 Jan 1834 | 31 Dec 1834 |
CSO53 Departmental Returns of Estimated Revenue and Expenditure. | 01 Jan 1840 | 31 Dec 1852 |
CSO54 Returns of Estimated Revenue and Expenditure of the Land Fund. | 01 Jan 1846 | 31 Dec 1850 |
Series notes:
The papers bound in this series are the original departmental returns, office drafts and memoranda from which the "Blue Book" and the statistical tables were compiled. Since the set of duplicate "Blue Books" (CSO 50) is incomplete, they are an important source of information, which may itself be supplemented by reference to files in CSO 1, in those cases where the original returns were registered and bound in the correspondence series (e.g., CSO 1, files 14239, 14917, 16743, 17660, 16120, 16714, 17119, 17429, 17527, 17810, 17860, 18399). The completeness, form, variety and subject coverage vary from volume to volume; therefore it is possible only to indicate here in a general way the type of material available, without guaranteeing that any particular statement will be found regularly for all years. Returns commonly included are: Civil Establishment (giving name, office, date of appointment, authority of appointment, salary, allowances); Pensions; Military; Civil and Criminal legal actions; Colonial Legislation; Population (under various categories); Land alienation; Convict returns (under various categories); Revenue and Expenditure; Manufactures, Produce and Stock, Mines and Fisheries; Shipping, Imports and Exports, Immigration and Emigration; Ecclesiastical, Churches, Schools; Public works. Volumes 8 (1841-44) and 10 (1842-44) include returns of a statistical nature not likely to be found elsewhere. A detailed list of the statistical returns called for in 1842 is to be found on page 85 of CSO 49/10.
These records are part of the holdings of the Tasmanian Archives
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