Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (2930 pages)
Year: (1863) 2010
ISBN: 9781742226118
Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia

The Government Gazettes are a unique, useful and extremely fascinating resource for local, family and social historians and researchers in other fields throughout Australia. They were published by the government as a means of communication to officials and the general public and therefore contain information that is of great use in establishing an image of Australia and its people in the past.

The New South Wales Government Gazette of 1863 contains:
 - accepted tenders for runs
 - appointees to government positions
 - appointments of Magistrates of the Territory
 - certificates of competency issued by Pilot Board
 - contracts for the conveyance of post office mails
 - convicts gaining / being deprived of Tickets of Leave
 - convicts granted Conditional Pardons including the terms of the pardon
 - dissolution of business partnerships
 - error in deeds
 - estates of deceased persons
 - impoundings
 - insolvent estates
 - land transactions
 - legally qualified medical practitioners
 - licenses for auctioneers, spirit merchants, brewers, and notices for publicans, packet, hawkers & pedlers licensing meetings
 - ministers of religion registered for the celebration of marriages
 - petitions
 - police appointments
 - probate and letters of administration announcements
 - unclaimed letters
 - and much more

A particular feature of the 1863 gazette is compensation claims paid to the Chinese following the Burrangong riots that had occurred during 1860 and 1861. Though not as well known as the Eureka rebellion, the Burrangong (or Lambing Flat) riots involved more people and lasted much longer than the events at Ballarat in 1854.

SAMPLE ENTRY:

CLAIMS OF CHINESE TO COMPENSATION FOR LOSSES DURING BURRANGONG RIOTS.
It is hereby notified, for the information of the parties interested, that those Chinese whose claims to compensation for losses sustained through the Riots at Burrangong, in the year 1861, have been admitted by the Government, in accordance with the Report of the Special Commissioner appointed to investigate their claims (as more particularly set forth in the Schedule hereunto annexed), will receive the amounts to which they are respectively entitled, upon application at the Gold Commissioner's Office, Burrangong, during the week commencing Monday, 21st instant.
The persons applying for payment will be required to satisfy the Commissioner entrusted with this duty, of their identity with the original claimants.
JOHN ROBERTSON.
[followed by a list of names and the compensation to which they were entitled]

This CD contains high quality scanned images of the original book, and has been bookmarked for easy navigation. Pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
Any computer using Adobe (Acrobat) Reader 4 or later
Adobe Reader 6 or later is recommended for CDs with searchable text