Guide to the Extracts from the Comprehensive list of Colonial Office records (as filmed by the AJCP), 1961

 

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Summary

Collection number:
M418-M420, M422
Extent:
61 items
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Availability:
Available
Access conditions:
Available for reference.

Background

Content Summary:

Extracts, being class and piece lists with brief description, from the contents lists to the ten volumes of the Comprehensive List of Colonial Office Records. The extracts are arranged, as is the Comprehensive List, alphabetically by colony, bringing together under each colony the different classes within the Colonial Office record group that relate to that colony.

Colonies or territorial units covered are Auckland Islands, Australia, individual Australian States, Borneo, Brunei, East Indies, Fiji, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Johore, Kedah and Perlis, Labuan, Malay States, Negri Sembilan, Sungei Ujong, New Guinea, New Hebrides, New Zealand, Western Pacific, Pahang, Perak, Sarawak, Selangor, Solomon Islands, Straits Settlements, Tonga and Trengganu.

Extracts covering Hong Kong, Mauritius, the Seychelles, Falkland Islands and Wei Hai Wei.

Extracts, being class and piece lists with tables of contents, from the two typescript supplementary volumes. The major portion of the extracts from Volume 1 consists of a class and piece list for CO 537, Colonies (General). Confidential Prints and Accounts Branch records are also listed. Extracts from Volume 2 include class and piece lists on emigration, governors' pensions, honours and Board of Trade records. A contents list precedes the extracts from each volume.

Short prefatory note followed by contents list for M418 and M420. The contents list for the supplementary volumes duplicates the two included on reel M420.

Volumes 1-3 contain the entire contents of M418, with the introductory ten pages of Volume 1 being the entire contents of M422. M420 has been reproduced in its entirety as a fourth volume. All four volumes bear the spine title PRO Colonial Office Records.

Biographical / Historical:

In 1961 extracts relating to AJCP areas of interest were copied from the ten volumes of a typescript entitled 'Comprehensive List of Colonial Office Records', together with two supplementary volumes, prepared by the Public Record Office. Reels M418, M420 and M422 are also held by the Mitchell Library and the National Library of Australia in hard-copy format, in four volumes familiarly known as 'The Blue Books'.

Access and use

Conditions Governing Access:
Available for Access.
Conditions Governing Use:
Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.
Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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