Convict Guide - published 2006 - Manual / Resource - Page 140
Guide to New South Wales State archives relating to convicts and convict administration
Judiciary's records
Judges’ notebooks, 1828–
Listed by Judges' names.
See Archives Investigator on State Records'
website.
Supreme Court's
records
Statistical returns of actions brought before
the Supreme Court, 1846–48
NRS 13475,
[4/2129.3 part]
Quantity: 1 box (part)
Criminal Jurisdiction — Informations and
other papers, 1824–1947
NRS 13477, [T19115]
Quantity: 97 boxes
The Chief Clerk of the Supreme Court noted on
each information: names of crown witnesses,
date prisoner(s) assigned, plea(s), verdict,
sentence. The relevant depositions in each case
are filed with the records of the Clerk of the
Peace.
There is an Index and listing to Supreme Court
Criminal Jurisdiction Papers, 1824-36 available in
State Records' reading rooms.
Annual returns of prisoners tried before the
Supreme Court at Sydney and on circuit,
1824–32, 1835, 1837–47
NRS 13478, 906
*ARK 1824-25
Quantity: 5 boxes
The returns usually record name of prisoner,
offence, date of trial, verdict, sentence, and if
remitted and why. There is a column for the
name of the committing Magistrate but it is
rarely filled in.
The returns are frequently duplicated, one copy
probably having been sent to the Colonial
Secretary and the other retained in the Supreme
Court. The loose returns are kept together for
convenience of searching.
Dates
Item
Fiche
1824–32
[X727]
3298 pp.1-16 only
1831
[X48]
2756
1835, 1837–41
[X67]
1842–44
[X850]
1845–47
[X851]
Precepts appointing the jury, and jury lists
for Criminal Sessions, 1824–42, 1872
NRS 13479,
[2/2312]
Quantity: 1 box
The precepts are the original documents, signed
by the Governor, appointing the jury to act at
the next Criminal Session.
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