Series:
Applications from Returned Servicemen for Free Selections of Crown Land under the Returned Soldiers Settlement Act 1916.
Series Number:
Access:
Open
Start Date:
01 Jan 1917
End Date:
31 Dec 1949
Creating Agency:
| Lands and Surveys Department (TA69) | 01 Jan 1804 | 23 Dec 1970 |
Related Series:
| AB40 Plans of Land Settled under the Returned Soldiers Settlement Act 1916 and the Closer Settlement Act 1929 in Various Municipalities. | 01 Jan 1919 | 31 Dec 1941 |
Controlling Series:
| AG217 Register of Applications from Soldiers for Free Selections | 01 Jan 1919 | 31 Dec 1949 |
How to Use:
Digital images of this record series are available to view online by clicking on the item links below to get to the Item Details pages. Copies may be made for private research/study but any other use requires permission from the Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office
Series notes:
The series comprises application files from returned soldiers for a free selection of crown land. Details recorded include name, address, location and measurement of land and accompanying correspondence relating to surveys, diagrams (not in every case) and approvals.
These records are part of the holdings of the Tasmanian Archives
System of Arrangement:
Numerical by application number. Note that some applications are missing and may have been incorporated into later files in other series.;;The majority of files have date range between 1917 and 1940s, and this has been recorded as the series date range. One file continues to 1975 but as this is an anomoly which has been recorded at the specific item level.;;At then end of the series is a small statistical working file that was retained just as an example of the administrative processes undertaken.;;
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