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• Registers of miners' rights issued and of Warden's collections generally. Nov 1874 - Nov 1880. Extracts from a Mining Warden's register showing business licences issued at Palmerville, Upper Camp and Edwardstown (the original name for Maytown). 2
• This open data file alphabetically lists the names of the early pastoral holdings, known as Stations, in Queensland and the names of the runs that were incorporated in them. Information also includes the Land Agent District, page number and Queensland State Archives' catalogue details. 2
• This open data file lists the names of deceased persons where a trust was established for their estate under the Trustees Act of 1889. Information includes the date of death, trustee file number, equity file number and Queensland State Archives' catalogue details. 2
• This open data file lists the names of immigrants and nominators as recorded in the registers for nominated passage kept by the Assistant Immigration Agent, Maryborough. Details include the type of nomination, the date and Queensland State Archives' catalogue details. 2
• This open data file lists the names of male and female prisoners admitted to HM Gaol (later Prison) Toowoomba from 1895 to 1906. Information also includes aliases, prisoner number, date of conviction and Queensland State Archives' catalogue details. 2
• This open data file lists the names of nurses as kept by the Nurses Registration Board of Queensland between 1915 and 1925. Information also includes the date of application, registration number, type of nurse (general, mental, midwifery), location, age and Queensland State Archives' catalogue details. 2
• This open data file lists the names of people and businesses involved in equity cases before the Supreme Court, Brisbane. Details include the date the case was first filed, the file number and Queensland State Archives' catalogue details. 2
• This open data file lists the names of people and businesses who purchased Crown Land in Queensland that had been opened as a selection or agricultural reserve between 1861 and 1868. Information also includes the lease number and Queensland State Archives’ catalogue details. 2
• This open data file lists the names of people who purchased land sold in what became the Colony of Queensland. Information also includes the date of sale, lot number, the parish, town or place and Queensland State Archives’ catalogue details. 2
• This open data file lists the names of prisoners discharged from HM Gaol (later Prison) Toowoomba from 1869 to 1879. Information also includes aliases, gaol number, date discharged, and Queensland State Archives' catalogue details. 2
• This open data file lists the names of prisoners tried at criminal sittings at Toowoomba and other regional courts in south east Queensland. Information also includes aliases, the court and date of sitting and Queensland State Archives' catalogue details. 2
• This open data file lists the names of respondents and co-respondents involved in matrimonial petitions (otherwise known as divorces or writs) at the Supreme Court, Brisbane, from 1861 to 1894. Information also includes the writ number, Supreme Court district and Queensland State Archives' catalogue details. 2
• This open data file lists the names of the deceased where instruments of renunciation have been lodged by an Executor. Details include the date of death, the date the renunciation was filed and Queensland State Archives' catalogue details. 2
• This open data file provides description details for plans of Queensland Railway station buildings, residences, bridges and station equipment as kept by the Railway Department from 1865. Information also includes dates, department numbers and Queensland State Archives' catalogue details. 2
• This open data file provides description details for working drawings of most classes of Queensland Railway steam locomotives operated since 1864. Information also includes dates, department numbers and Queensland State Archives' catalogue details. 2
• This series comprises District Inspectors' reports on schools, copies of which were kept by the Department of Public Instruction (after 1957 known as the Department of Education), and the schools: a copy of each Inspection Report was sent to the school and to the Department. Each pro - forma Inspection Report includes the school name, the school number, the class being assessed, the date of the inspection in full, and the total number of male and female students present. There is also an assessment of the school according to the following categories: 1. school administrative records; 2. school 'government ' or discipline; 3. organization, which includes sufficient accommodation, classification of pupils, teaching standard and experience; 5. proficiency and progress of pupils; 6. care of grounds; 7. school, games and physical exercise; 8. general conditions; and 9. general remarks. Education Regional Districts are: Brisbane South, Brisbane North, Brisbane West, Central Queensland, Darling Downs, Wide Bay, South West, North West and Northern [this includes the Islands of the Torres Strait]. Education Department reports are filed according to Education Regional district, then alphabetically by school name, and chronologically by date of report; reports kept by schools are chronological by date of report under the school name. Reports may not have been issued for some schools for some years, and not all reports may have been received by Queensland State Archives; there may, therefore, be gaps in the date ranges listed. 2
• This series comprises correspondence files relating to requests, lodged by various State Schools, for supplies, requisitions, equipment and building facilities (including furniture, teaching materials, lighting, teacher accommodation, etc). The files also include correspondence relating to the acquisition of land for the establishment or extension of schools, the opening or closure of state schools, etc. Other items attached to the correspondence include rough development plans, costings and briefs, notices of permanent road closures, letters of complaint, etc. The files contain correspondence between various authorities, namely: the Director-General of Education, Teachers and Principles of the schools concerned, the Department of Administrative Services, the Minister for Education, the Minister for Land Management, the Resources Management Directorate, Shire Councils, Crown Solicitor and the Parliamentary Commission for Administrative Investigations. 2
• This series comprises drawings and charts of Queensland ports and harbour areas together with port and harbour infrastructure and government vessels. A large proportion of the drawings are of soundings of various reaches, cuttings and sections of waterways throughout Queensland, including surveyed contours and cross sections. Drawings of infrastructure include wharves and jetties including buildings and roadways, terminals and loaders, cranes, dry docks, breakwaters, lighthouses and other navigation aids; vessels include dredges, tugs, launches, pilot cutters, ferries, punts, launches. A small number of related items not being charts or plans are also included in the series. Numerical by drawing numbers, or alphabetical by drawing title. Note that a large number of items in this series have no drawing numbers and no drawing numbers are recorded for items in this series. 2
• This series contains the microfilmed engineering drawings and other miscellaneous drawings of works, and other sundry items, undertaken by the Land Survey section of the Department of Main Roads and/or commissions. These drawings and design plans include construction and maintenance of roads and bridges, traffics islands, traffic lights, roadways and traffic routes. The files contain specifications and standards, plans and maps, correspondence between Local authorities regarding works in their area, estimates of costs, and tender documents. Also included are progressive quality tests, newspaper reports, government gazette notices relating to the road works and correspondence touching on land resumptions. 2
• Cabinet decisions are given the formal title 'Minutes'. The term 'Decisions' is not strictly applicable to Cabinet in the legal sense as the exercise of statutory powers is normally the legislative responsibility of individual ministers or of the Executive Council. Information recorded in Decisions includes the location and date of the meeting, decision number, submission number, title, and decision and circulation statement (for example, 'all ministers'). Each decision has been stamped and signed by the Secretary to Cabinet. A statement of certification as a correct copy is also stamped. The circulation records include the decision number, location and date of the meeting, subject, submission number (number or oral submission), number of copies made and circulation details (number, name of minister or department, date and time). Cabinet submissions were intended to lead to cabinet decisions and come in four distinct forms: policy, authority to prepare a Bill, authority to introduce a Bill, and authority to forward significant subordinate legislation. Submissions include the submission number, copy number and the name of the person or department making the submission. Each submission is stamped with the date and time received. Supporting documentation for submissions are included, such as plans, reports and bills. 1
• Civil actions brought before the Supreme Court, Southern District, Brisbane. Includes divorce files 1894-1961. The file on each case contains the writ of summons and associated documents such as entry of appearance, affidavits, bill of costs, certification of taxation, pleas, declaration, notice of motion for a new trial, joinder of issue, praecipes, fi fa, exhibits, replication, bond, interpleader, application of search, consent order, certificate of lower scale (costs), papers for the judge, petition, summons for directions, judgment nisi, judgment by default for want of appearance, judgment, discontinuance of action etc. Writs include cases of admiralty, defamation, unpaid debts or wages, negligence (sometimes resulting in death), breach of agreement or contract, trespassing, damages, dissolution of marriage, dissolution of partnership, negligent driving, possession of land, income tax, injunctions restraining, etc Matrimonial writs are marked "Mat" or "Matrimonial". Matrimonial petitions were kept as a separate series from 1861 to 1894 and from 1961 to 1976; from 1894 to 1961 they were kept together with other writs. Note: The majority of writs for 1961 and 1962 were destroyed in a Supreme Court fire in 1968. 1
• Civil actions brought before the Supreme Court, Southern District, Brisbane. Includes divorce files 1894-1961. The file on each case contains the writ of summons and associated documents such as entry of appearance, affidavits, bill of costs, certification of taxation, pleas, declaration, notice of motion for a new trial, joinder of issue, praecipes, fi fa, exhibits, replication, bond, interpleader, application of search, consent order, certificate of lower scale (costs), papers for the judge, petition, summons for directions, judgment nisi, judgment by default for want of appearance, judgment, discontinuance of action etc. Writs include cases of admiralty, defamation, unpaid debts or wages, negligence (sometimes resulting in death), breach of agreement or contract, trespassing, damages, dissolution of marriage, dissolution of partnership, negligent driving, possession of land, income tax, injunctions restraining, etc Matrimonial writs are marked "Mat" or "Matrimonial". Matrimonial petitions were kept as a separate series from 1861 to 1894 and from 1961 to 1976; from 1894 to 1961 they were kept together with other writs. Note: The majority of writs for 1961 and 1962 were destroyed in a Supreme Court fire in 1968. 1
• Details of immigrants and crew extracted from Colonial Secretary's [correspondence](https://www.archivessearch.qld.gov.au/series/S5253)1860 - 1864 1
• Dunwich Benevolent Asylum was established 13 May 1865 when inmates were first transferred to the Dunwich Quarantine Station from the Benevolent Ward attached to the Brisbane Hospital under the Benevolent Asylum Wards Act of 1861. The Asylum continued to operate until it was officially closed on 30 Sep 1946. It provided for poor people who because of age, accident, infirmity or otherwise were unable to care for themselves. The Index /dataset lists inmates admissions and discharges, deaths and burials. An inmate may have been admitted, discharged and readmitted several times in their lifetime; not all inmates have a death or burial recorded. Inmates could be discharged to Brisbane Hospital or the Reception House. These records are held at [Queensland State Archives](https://www.archivessearch.qld.gov.au/). 1
• Each certificate has information on both front and back. On the front are included the type of certificate, the name of the recipient, the reasons for granting the certificate, the date of issue, and the signatures of the Chairman, Secretary and members of the Marine Board. On the back are included the certificate number, address, date of birth and signature of the recipient, and the date and place where the examination was held. 1
• Each entry includes: Register Number, Date of Burial (or Death), Name of Deceased, Occupation, Age, (and from 19 Dec 1991, Sex ) Fees, Where Buried - Portion, Section and Allotment - Undertaker's Name, Denomination, Name of Minister, and Remarks. 1
• Index to printed correspondence comprising reports of schools and reports to the Board of General Education 1
• Index to [registers of selection](https://www.archivessearch.qld.gov.au/series/S13955) under the "Crown Lands Act 1884" held at [Queensland State Archives](https://www.qld.gov.au/recreation/arts/heritage/archives). Information includes, name of selector; number of selection; date the land was open to selection; Government Gazette reference; date of application; date of lease; terms of lease; payments made; transfers; any change of number e.g. when the boundaries of Land Agents' Districts were changed, new numbers were allocated to affected selections; and what happened to the selection e.g. purchased, surrendered, forfeited, subdivided. 1
• Index to land sold was created from numerous resources held at [Queensland State Archives](www.archives.qld.gov.au): [Register of Lands 1861-1867](https://www.archivessearch.qld.gov.au/series/S16128); [Sale of land at Ipswich, Brisbane, Warwick, Drayton, Rockhampton, Dalby, Maryborough, Gayndah, Callandoon, Condamine, Gladstone](https://www.archivessearch.qld.gov.au/series/S16130); [Portions of agricultural reserves under the 'Leasing Act 1866', kept by the Surveyor General's Department](https://www.archivessearch.qld.gov.au/series/S16150); [Lists supplied by Moreton Bay District Survey Office New South Wales of Crown lands sold in what became the Colony of Queensland](https://www.archivessearch.qld.gov.au/series/S16119) 1
• Index to names of teachers in the Education Office Gazettes 1899-1925 1
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