Agency Police Department. Chief Police Magistrate (Bothwell & George Town) - Papers relating to Tasm...
Agency Police Department. Chief Police Magistrate (Bothwell & George Town) - Papers relating to Tasmanian Bushrangers, 1829, 1841, 1843, 1844
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Author / Creator
Date
1840, 1842
Call Numbers
A 580
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Physical Description
Contents
1 volume - 0.02 Meters
Textual Records - (manuscript)
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Fonds
Access and use
Issue Copy
Microfilm : CY 1269, frames 180-283 (A 580)
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Scope and Contents
Contents
1829, 1841, 1843, 1844 ; Correspondence relating accounts of robbery, reporting suspicious persons to the Police Magistrate of George Town, G.S. Davies. Also directing that a party comprising both constables and military visit Shephard's Huts. Includes E. Bowen's account of robbery of station of Robert Taylor and Sherwood.
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Full title
Agency Police Department. Chief Police Magistrate (Bothwell & George Town) - Papers relating to Tasmanian Bushrangers, 1829, 1841, 1843, 1844
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Author / Creator
Notes
General note
The State Library of NSW probably compiled these volumes at an unknown date. They comprise accumulated letters and notes on various types and sized papers and were bound at an unknown date.
D.S. Mitchell bookplate inside front cover.
Signature / Inscriptions
Embossed on spine, "Kavenagh Jones and Cash"
Contextual Information
Source
Bequeathed by D.S. Mitchell, 1907
Administrative / Biographical history
Under Lieut-Governor Arthur's administration, the smaller towns of Campbell Town, Oatlands, Richmond, New Norfolk, and Norfolk Plains had paid police magistrates while military officers helped lay magistrates at Bothwell, George Town, and Oyster Bay.
-- Reference: S. Petrow. 'Policing in a Penal Colony: Governor Arthur's Police System in Van D...
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Call Numbers
A 580
Record Identifier
nGm4dGjY
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nGm4dGjY
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Reference code
423914
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