Legislative Assembly Archived Office Records

1. CORRESPONDENCE
Indexes and Registers

PRS 1.LA Indexes and Registers of Tabled Papers and Letters Received, 1856 - 1890
PRS 47.LA Indexes and Registers of Letters Received, 1891 - 1992
PRS 71.LA Indexes to Copies of Letters Sent, 1937 - 1964

Letters Received

PRS 108.LA Tabled Papers and Letters Received, 1856 - 1890
PRS 110.LA Letters Received, 1891 - 1983

Letters Sent

Correspondence Files

PRS 150.LA Clerk's General Files, 1857 - 1973
PRS 81.LA Special Bundles, 1879 - 1977
PRS 116.LA Correspondence relating to deceased Members of the Legislative Assembly, 1934 - 1945
PRS 117.LA Correspondence relating to By-elections and Particulars of Writs, 1870 - 1964
PRS 118.LA Correspondence relating to Staff, 1869 - 1972

2. PRINTING

3. MEMBERS

See also

6. INDEXES COMPILED IN THE OFFICE

7. ROYAL COMMISSIONS
Royal Commission on City Railway Extensions, 1897
The Royal Commission on City Railway Extensions was appointed to "inquire as to the expediency and best methods of extending the railway system of the Colony into the City of Sydney, or through the City, and to the waters of Port Jackson, for conveyance of passengers and goods". The Report, Proceedings and Minutes of Evidence were tabled on 3 June 1897 and ordered to be printed ('Parliamentary Papers' 1897, 4, 89). The members and secretary of the Royal Commission were also members and secretary of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works. These records were found with the records of that Committee.

Royal Commission on Border Railways, 1915 - 1916
The Royal Commission on Border Railways was appointed to "inquire into the question of the expediency of constructing ... (certain) ... lines of border railways", and was a joint NSW-Victorian Commission comprised of the members of the NSW Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works and members of the Victorian Parliament (possibly members of the Victorian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Railways). The Report and Minutes of Evidence were tabled on 24 August 1916 and ordered to be printed ('Parliamentary Papers' 1916, 4, 631).

PRS 98.LA Cash Book, 1915 - 1916

Royal Commission into Pressure Tunnels, 1932 - 1933
In 1932 the Minister for Public Works appointed a Committee of Inquiry into matters connected with the construction of a pressure tunnel from Potts Point to Waterloo and related matters. The Secretary to the Committee was Arthur Hurley, who was also Secretary to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works which had recently become moribund. These papers were found amongst the records of the Public Works Committee. The Inquiry opened on 17 October 1932 and was made into a Royal Commission on 23 November 1932. The Royal Commission sat until 27 May 1933 and reported to Parliament on 22 June 1933. The Report, Proceedings and Evidence were printed in the 'Parliamentary Papers', 1933, 1, 581.

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