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-163.
Bundle 15, 1821 (AONSW ref: 4/1748-51; microfilm copy AO Reels 6051-6052)
This includes papers of the year 1821 up to the end of Macquarie's governorship. First
come the papers considered to be important arranged in chronological order by the date
of either the individual documents or, in the case of groups of papers from departments
or on specific subjects, by the date of the first paper in the group. These are followed by
the papers considered to be "Miscellaneous and unimportant". Last come the papers
from the Lunatic Asylum at Castle Hill.
4.
Bundles 16-27, 1821-5 (AONSW ref: 4/1752-89; microfilm copy AO Reels 6052-6064)
These begin with Brisbane's administration and there are three bundles for each year.
Each of these three bundles contains records of a certain type. These are:
(a)
records considered important when arranged, filed in chronological order;
(b)
departmental correspondence: all the letters from a department or office are filed
together but there is no apparent order in the grouping of the departments;
(c)
unimportant and miscellaneous correspondence in chronological order with
undated correspondence at the end.
The compartments are not watertight as correspondence from departments may be found
in both (a) and (c).
1821-22
5.
1823
1824
1825
(a)
Important records
Bundle 16
4/1752-55
Bundle 19
4/1764-65
Bundle 22
4/1774-75
Bundle 25
4/1782
(b)
Departmental records
Bundle 17
4/1756-58
Bundle 20
4/1766-69
Bundle 23
4/1776-77
Bundle 26
4/1783-84
(c)
Unimportant records
Bundle 18
4/1759-63
Bundle 21
4/1770-73
Bundle 24
4/1778-81
Bundle 27
4/1785-89
Bundles 28-29, 1826 (AONSW ref: 4/1790-94; microfilm copies AO Reels 890, 702, 2183)
To achieve this arrangement many files were broken up and distributed between the three categories.
Apart from the papers arranged in Bundles as described in 1-5 above, there are also separate annual
bundles of Memorials and Petitions from 1810, arranged alphabetically, and other Special Bundles.
In 1934 the Papers were transferred from the Chief Secretary's Office to the Mitchell Library, then the
official custodian of the State's archives.
The records underwent further re-arrangement*. Quite a number of papers and volumes were extracted
from these bundles in 1935 when they were being bound and filed separately. With the exception of
items removed from the "Miscellaneous" parts a note has usually been made of these extractions in the
Summary of Colonial Records in the Colonial Secretary's Office 1788-1826 (AONSW ref: 5/2331; microfilm
copy AO Reel 6036).
The papers are also reputed to have suffered disarray during the actual transfer. Whole bundles
are said to have fallen off the lorry while it was turning from Shakespeare Place into the rear of the
Library and the reassembling of burst bundles caused many problems.