Post Office: Overseas Mail Organisation: Records on Colonial Post Offices
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0813 POST 44 Series |
Held at | : British Postal Museum and Archive: The Royal Mail Archive Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://catalogue.postalmuseum.org/ › |
Full title | : Post Office: Overseas Mail Organisation: Records on Colonial Post Offices |
Date(s) | : 1763-1951 |
Level of description | : Series |
Extent | : 40 files and 28 volumes |
Name of creator(s) | : No further information available |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
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Content
Scope and content/abstract:
This series relates to the establishment and operation of colonial post offices in British North America [Canada], Australia and New Zealand. The records include instructions from the Postmaster General via the Secretary (POST 44/1-12), returns to surveys relating to the volume of mail processed and the costs of running the offices, details of the staff employed at these offices and their duties (POST 44/24-33).
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
The material is arranged in chronological order within series.
Conditions governing access:
Public Record
Conditions governing reproduction:
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Finding aids:
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Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
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Allied Materials
Related material:
See also; POST 9/19-22, Disbursements and Receipts Home and Colonial, POST 9/44-58, Debt ledgers, including colonies and POST 9/164, Alterations to salaries, Home and Colonial.
Publication note:
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Entry checked by Barbara Ball
Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General Internation Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G) second edition 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997
Date(s) of descriptions:
Entry checked June 2011
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