ITM846733 Colonial Secretary's Inwards Correspondence - 1860

Queensland State Archives Colonial Secretary's Office Inwards Correspondence 01 Jan 1860 - 31 Dec 1860 S 5253 ITM84673 Dept No. 501 The legibility of this item may be reduced due to the following factors: Minimal Impression Faded Ink Iron Gall ink halo and lacing Discoloured paper Torn or creased pages

Digitised at Queensland State Archives, Brisbane, Australia

www.archives.qld.gov.au Queensland Government

THIS FILE STARTS AT 501 NOT 503

[top left, in red ink] {⁶⁰/501}

[top right, in red ink] {10^th April}

[centred] {[in pencil] 501 [in red ink] Under Secretary Lands.}

[centred] [in red ink] {Forwarding my list of instruments in this Colony}

{At the Date of Separation [in black ink] - New South Wales.}

[in left margin] {\ \ 60 - 642. ........ 274}

[on right] Department of Lands. Sydney, 4^th March 1860.

Sir

{In list to Council. [initials] GFB} I am directed to forward to you a List of Surveying Instruments in the Colony {[diagonal line, pointing downward] /} of Queensland at the date of separation, with a suggested valuation in cases where the present state of them are [sic] known, and I am to invite you to cause measures to be taken for the Valuation by the Surveyor General of Queensland of the Instruments in question, with a view to their transfer by purchase to the Government of that Colony

I have the honor to be

Sir

Your most obedient Servant

[signed] Mich'l Fitzpatrick

[bottom of left margin]

{The Honorable the Colonial Secretary Brisbane.}

[top left, in red ink] {⁶⁰/501}

[top right, in red ink] {10^th April}

[centred] {[in pencil] ⁵⁰¹ [in red ink] Under Secretary Lands.}

[centred, in red ink] {Forwarding my list of instruments in this Colony}

{At the Date of Separation [in black ink] - New South Wales}

[in left margin] {\ \ 60 - 642. ................ 274}

[on right] Department of Lands Sydney, 4^th March 1860.

Sir

{In list to Council. [initials] GFB} I am directed to forward for you a List of Surveying Instruments in the Colony {[diagonal line, pointing downward] /} of Queensland at the date of separation, with a suggested valuation in cases where the pre[sent] [the next four lines obscured by folded page]

[written on folded right corner of page, in another hand]

Give a Round answer - The Gov^t of New South Wales might as well ask for the furniture of the Gaol at Brisbane ---

[initials, on right] GFB

[in letter writer's hand]

The Under Secretary for Lands. Sydney.

[in red ink]

27^th April 1861

List of Instruments in the Colony of Queensland, & proposed to be transferred by sale to the Gov^t of that Colony.

In the custody of M^r District Surveyor Burrowes District Officer Brisbane.