Colonial Secretary's Office Correspondence 1859-1861

Created 11/11/2025

Updated 11/11/2025

This open data set is the name index to the correspondence of the Colonial Secretary of Queensland 1859 to 1861. The records are held at Queensland State Archives. The Colonial Secretary was responsible for most functions of government, and the correspondence reflects the early activities of the Queensland Government including immigration, land orders, police including native police, Courts of Petty Sessions, local governments, prisons, hospitals, aliens, education, aborigines, legislative matters, military establishments, foreign correspondence etc.

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Title Colonial Secretary's Office Correspondence 1859-1861
Language English
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/982569e3-2be7-4ea4-aa58-3093e854b541
Remote Last Updated 04/07/2024
Contact Point
Queensland State Archives
web@archives.qld.gov.au
Reference Period 17/12/2018
Geospatial Coverage Queensland
Data Portal Queensland Government

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This dataset was originally found on Queensland Government "Colonial Secretary's Office Correspondence 1859-1861". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/index-to-correspondence-of-queensland-colonial-secretary-1859-1861