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
Previous Agencies:
Commissioners of Survey ( Land Commissioners for Van Diemen's Land) - (Land Grants) (TA1027) | 01 Jan 1826 | 31 Dec 1832 |
Related Agencies:
Board of Claims for Secondary Grants (TA474) | 01 Mar 1837 | 31 Dec 1837 |
Subsequent Agencies:
Supreme Court (Registrar's Office) (TA42) | 01 Jan 1824 | 31 Dec 1924 |
Series Created By Agency:
SC296 Miscellaneous Papers. | 01 Jan 1822 | 31 Dec 1851 |
SC307 Documents Submitted As Evidence in Cases in Land Jurisdiction. | 01 Jan 1823 | 31 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 1824 | 31 Dec 1836 |
SC288 Unregistered Applications and associated Correspondence relating to Grants and Leases. | 01 Jan 1825 | 31 Dec 1858 |
SC271 Inward Correspondence relating to Cases. | 08 Dec 1828 | 18 May 1867 |
SC269 Unregistered Correspondence relating to the Administration of the Commission and Land Policy. | 21 Jun 1831 | 05 Jul 1855 |
SC273 Returns showing Survey Details and Authority for the Issue of Deeds. | 01 Jan 1832 | 31 Dec 1839 |
SC274 Assistant Surveyors' Returns showing Quit Rent Payable on Approved Grants. | 01 Jan 1832 | 31 Dec 1836 |
SC280 Copies of Various Returns Submitted by the Commissioners. | 01 Jan 1832 | 31 Dec 1841 |
SC284 Applications for the Issue of Titles and associated Papers. | 01 Jan 1832 | 31 Dec 1836 |
SC286 Applications for the Issue of Titles to Disputed Land. | 01 Jan 1832 | 31 Dec 1857 |
SC289 Correspondence and associated Papers relating to Applications for Grants and Leases. | 01 Jan 1832 | 31 Dec 1857 |
SC295 Index to Applications for Titles. | 01 Jan 1832 | 31 Dec 1836 |
SC294 Abstracts of Minutes of Meetings of Commissioners for Claims to Grants. | 01 Sep 1832 | 31 Jan 1838 |
SC272 Surveyor-General's Memoranda to the Commissioners Forwarding Advertised Applications for Grants, Stating Whether Caveats have Been entered. | 22 Oct 1832 | 29 May 1834 |
SC287 Applications relating to the Issue of Titles in Cases Not the Subject of a Report. | 01 Jan 1833 | 31 Dec 1858 |
SC310 Index to Deeds of Land Grants | 01 Jan 1833 | 31 Dec 1859 |
SC297 Notebook about Cases kept by Clerk to the Commissioners. | 01 Feb 1833 | 31 Aug 1833 |
SC303 Minutes of Proceedings in Land Jurisdiction. Indexed. | 27 Feb 1833 | 29 Oct 1903 |
SC293 Certificates of Improvement to Accompany Claims for Grants. | 01 Jan 1834 | 31 Dec 1838 |
AG442 Index to Papers Not Classified Into Reports | 01 Jan 1836 | 31 Dec 1858 |
SC275 Memoranda from the Surveyor-General relating Errors in Grant Deeds. | 01 Jan 1836 | 31 Dec 1840 |
SC309 Register of Applications for the Issue of Titles to Grants. | 01 Mar 1836 | 31 Dec 1926 |
SC285 Applications for the Issue of Titles Recommended in Reports, 1 - 607. | 04 May 1836 | 22 Oct 1858 |
SC298 Commissioners' Appointment Book. | 01 Jun 1836 | 28 Mar 1838 |
SC281 Draft Returns of Sale of Crown Land. | 01 Jan 1837 | 31 Dec 1854 |
SC282 Duplicate Returns of Fees collected on Behalf of the Collector of Internal Revenue. | 01 May 1837 | 31 Jul 1839 |
SC308 Cancelled Grant Deeds. | 05 May 1837 | 13 Oct 1863 |
SC302 Index to Grants registered in Volumes unknown. | 01 Aug 1837 | 30 Nov 1838 |
SC299 Copies of Proclamations Advertising Crown Land for Sale. | 01 Sep 1837 | 10 Oct 1837 |
SC291 Alphabetical Register of Applicants Forthe Issue of Titles, showing the Progress of Application. | 08 Jan 1838 | 24 Nov 1855 |
SC276 Inward Correspondence relating to the Sale of Crown Land. | 01 Jan 1839 | 30 Jun 1855 |
SC278 Chairman's Letterbook. | 04 Jan 1839 | 30 Sep 1858 |
SC283 Register of Returns of Grant Fees Forwarded to the Collector of Internal Revenue. | 20 Jan 1842 | 18 Dec 1903 |
SC277 Surveyor-General's Certificates relating to the Original Locatees of Land Grants. | 01 Jul 1842 | 31 Aug 1857 |
SC300 Pass Book of Account with the Bank of Australasia. | 18 Apr 1846 | 03 Jan 1851 |
SC279 Letterbook of Outward Correspondence. | 19 Aug 1851 | 19 Dec 1857 |
SC301 Miscellaneous Notes of the Chairman, F H Henslowe. | 01 Nov 1851 | 31 Aug 1858 |
SC311 Commissioners' Warrants to Dispossess and Remove under the Waste Lands Act 1858. | 01 Apr 1858 | 30 Sep 1866 |