First Council Description of the Archives

1. The Manuscript Records
The Manuscript Records are comprised of the following series which are all kept together and which have been registered separately:

Tabled Papers
Papers Not Tabled (Miscellaneous Papers)
Bills
Committee Papers
Correspondence

(NOTE: The correspondence in the Manuscript Records is part of the various correspondence series described below.)

There are 83 boxes (about 14 shelf metres) of the Manuscript Records, for which there is an Inventory (a chronological list) ; and a Box List.
There is also a Register to the Tabled Papers for 1855 in the front of PRS 1.LA:1, Legislative Assembly, Register of Tabled Papers, 1856 - 1858

2. Correspondence and Other Office Records
PRS 19.LC1 Copies of Letters Sent by the Executive Council, 1829-1841
NOTE: These volumes are estrays from the archives of the Executive Council; they were apparently retained within the Legislature when the position of the Clerk of the Councils was separated. The continuation of this series is located in the NSW State Records as: Executive Council, Copies of Letters Sent, 1842-1859 (SRNSW Location 4/1678 - 4/1679)

PRS 20.LC1 Copies of Letters Sent, 1829-1856 PRS 72.LC1 Letters Received from the Colonial Secretary, 1838-1856
See also PRS 188.LC1
NOTE: The series in the State Records Office of NSW, Colonial Secretary, Copies of Letters Sent to the Legislative Council, 17.8.1843 - 9.3.1855 (SRNSW Location 4/3777) is comprised of copies of the letters in the above series.PRS 142.LC1 Copies of Letters sent by the Speaker of the Legislative Council, 1844-1856

PRS 143.LC1 Copies of Letters Sent to the Colonial Secretary, 1853-1856

PRS 73.LC1 Letters Received, 1825-1853
See also PRS 188.LC1

PRS 187.LC1 Miscellaneous Letters Received, 1843
See also PRS 188.LC1

PRS 188.LC1 Miscellaneous Letters and Papers found after Mr. McPherson had given up charge, 1837-1841
PRS 343.LC1 Copies of Government and General Orders, 1820 - 1821
PRS 344.LC1 Copies of Circulars, 1841 - 1856
PRS 347.LC1 Copies of colonial newspapers, 1852 - 1853

3. Chamber Records
PRS 144.LC1 Register of Addresses to the Governor, 1847-1855
PRS 334.LC1 Minutes of the Standing Orders Committee, 1827 - 1855
PRS 145.LC1 Minutes of the Legislative Council, 1824-1839

4. Records relating to the Parliamentary Agent
In 1844 the Council presented an Address to the Governor (after passing a Resolution to this effect) requesting him place on the Estimates provision for the remuneration of a Parliamentary Agent in the United Kingdom at a rate of five hundred pounds a year. This Agent would be a Member of the House of Commons and would represent the Legislative Council and correspond with it or a Select Committee appointed for this purpose. The Honourable Francis Scott (1806-1884), M.P. for Roxburghshire 1841-47 and Berwickshire 1847-59, was appointed Parliamentary Agent and corresponded with the Council over three years. For a detailed account of his career as Parliamentary Agent, see the article by T. H. Irving, "Francis Scott, Colonial Agent: Aristocratic Ideals and Empire in the 1840s", Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 74(4), April 1989, 289 - 314.
PRS 252.LC1 Correspondence with the Parliamentary Agent, the Hon. Francis Scott M.P., 1845-1848
PRS 357.LC1 Copies of Letters sent to the Parliamentary Agent for the Colonies (the Hon. Francis Scott MP), 1844 - 1847
PRS 358.LC1 Copies of Letters from the Parliamentary Agent for the Colonies (the Hon. Francis Scott MP), 1845 - 1849

5. Accounting RecordsPRS 25.LC1 Voucher Book, 1843-1847

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