When the Convict Department was, in 1843, reorganised under a Comptroller-General that officer was granted the right of direct access to the Lieutenant-Governor and by 1847 he was, for convict purposes, equivalent to the Colonial Secretary. He therefore reported direct to the Lieutenant-Governor, and these volumes contain originals, drafts and copies of his reports, sometimes annual and sometimes semi-annual, setting forth his general and particular comments on the Administration of the Probabtion System of Convict Discipline. For copies of the reports from 1843, see GO33, and from 1858 to 1862, see the Convict Department Record Group

These records are part of the holdings of the Tasmanian Archives