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Agency:
Commissioners for Claims to Grants (Land Grants) [Caveat Board]
Agency Number:
Start Date:
01 Jan 1832
End Date:
31 Dec 1858
Description:
To issue titles to land, and to settle dispute claims. The records of the Commissioners for Claims to about grants fall into two separate periods. The first is from 1832 until 1836, and then from 1836 until the Supreme Court assumed responsibility in 1858 under 22 Victoria No. 10. In the first period, correspondence files numbered 1-1377 are indexed in SC 295 and located in SC 284. Indexed abstracts of the minutes of meetings of the Commissioners are in SC 294, with a reference to report numbers 1-81. The reports are filed in CSO 1/625-6. Report reference numbers begin at 23, with earlier reports found by date. From about March 1836 all applications are registered in SC 309, which gives a number for a second series of reports, SC 285. From January 1838, SC 309 applications are also given a folio sub-number; SC 309 is the main finding agent for the records. Applications not reported upon form SC 287, while disputed applications are in SC 286. These are arranged alphabetically and have been extracted from applications in both SC 284 and SC 285. When the Supreme Court assumed responsibility for land jurisdiction, it continued to use the record system of the Commissioners; SC 309/2 remained the registration volume, marking the beginning of applications under its jurisdiction. Reported cases appear in SC 305, and those not reported in SC 304.~
Legislation Administered:
6 William IV No.11 Act for the settlement of Claims to Grants of Land and for other Purposes relating thereto (1835)
Legislation Creating:
Government Notice No.22, 31 Jan 1832
Board of Claims for Secondary Grants (TA474)01 Mar 183731 Dec 1837
Subsequent Agencies:
Supreme Court (Registrar's Office) (TA42)01 Jan 182431 Dec 1924
Series Created By Agency:
SC296 Miscellaneous Papers.01 Jan 182231 Dec 1851

SC307 Documents Submitted As Evidence in Cases in Land Jurisdiction.01 Jan 182331 Dec 1880

SC292 Correspondence Referred to the Commissioners to Settle Disputes between Henry Jennings, R L Murray, Hugh Macintosh and P Degraves about Cascade Saw Mills.01 Jan 182431 Dec 1836

SC288 Unregistered Applications and associated Correspondence relating to Grants and Leases.01 Jan 182531 Dec 1858

SC271 Inward Correspondence relating to Cases.08 Dec 182818 May 1867

SC269 Unregistered Correspondence relating to the Administration of the Commission and Land Policy.21 Jun 183105 Jul 1855

SC273 Returns showing Survey Details and Authority for the Issue of Deeds.01 Jan 183231 Dec 1839

SC274 Assistant Surveyors' Returns showing Quit Rent Payable on Approved Grants.01 Jan 183231 Dec 1836

SC280 Copies of Various Returns Submitted by the Commissioners.01 Jan 183231 Dec 1841

SC284 Applications for the Issue of Titles and associated Papers.01 Jan 183231 Dec 1836

SC286 Applications for the Issue of Titles to Disputed Land.01 Jan 183231 Dec 1857

SC289 Correspondence and associated Papers relating to Applications for Grants and Leases.01 Jan 183231 Dec 1857

SC295 Index to Applications for Titles.01 Jan 183231 Dec 1836

SC294 Abstracts of Minutes of Meetings of Commissioners for Claims to Grants.01 Sep 183231 Jan 1838

SC272 Surveyor-General's Memoranda to the Commissioners Forwarding Advertised Applications for Grants, Stating Whether Caveats have Been entered.22 Oct 183229 May 1834

SC287 Applications relating to the Issue of Titles in Cases Not the Subject of a Report.01 Jan 183331 Dec 1858

SC310 Index to Deeds of Land Grants01 Jan 183331 Dec 1859

SC297 Notebook about Cases kept by Clerk to the Commissioners.01 Feb 183331 Aug 1833

SC303 Minutes of Proceedings in Land Jurisdiction. Indexed.27 Feb 183329 Oct 1903

SC293 Certificates of Improvement to Accompany Claims for Grants.01 Jan 183431 Dec 1838

AG442 Index to Papers Not Classified Into Reports01 Jan 183631 Dec 1858

SC275 Memoranda from the Surveyor-General relating Errors in Grant Deeds.01 Jan 183631 Dec 1840

SC309 Register of Applications for the Issue of Titles to Grants.01 Mar 183631 Dec 1926

SC285 Applications for the Issue of Titles Recommended in Reports, 1 - 607.04 May 183622 Oct 1858

SC298 Commissioners' Appointment Book.01 Jun 183628 Mar 1838

SC281 Draft Returns of Sale of Crown Land.01 Jan 183731 Dec 1854

SC282 Duplicate Returns of Fees collected on Behalf of the Collector of Internal Revenue.01 May 183731 Jul 1839

SC308 Cancelled Grant Deeds.05 May 183713 Oct 1863

SC302 Index to Grants registered in Volumes unknown.01 Aug 183730 Nov 1838

SC299 Copies of Proclamations Advertising Crown Land for Sale.01 Sep 183710 Oct 1837

SC291 Alphabetical Register of Applicants Forthe Issue of Titles, showing the Progress of Application.08 Jan 183824 Nov 1855

SC276 Inward Correspondence relating to the Sale of Crown Land.01 Jan 183930 Jun 1855

SC278 Chairman's Letterbook.04 Jan 183930 Sep 1858

SC283 Register of Returns of Grant Fees Forwarded to the Collector of Internal Revenue.20 Jan 184218 Dec 1903

SC277 Surveyor-General's Certificates relating to the Original Locatees of Land Grants.01 Jul 184231 Aug 1857

SC300 Pass Book of Account with the Bank of Australasia.18 Apr 184603 Jan 1851

SC279 Letterbook of Outward Correspondence.19 Aug 185119 Dec 1857

SC301 Miscellaneous Notes of the Chairman, F H Henslowe.01 Nov 185131 Aug 1858

SC311 Commissioners' Warrants to Dispossess and Remove under the Waste Lands Act 1858.01 Apr 185830 Sep 1866