City Surveyor's Department Letter Books, 1888-1923

Description
Unique IDAS-0690DateBetween 1st January 1888 and 1st January 1923Date qualifiercircaFormatVolume - Leather BoundDescriptionThis series contains books of press-copy letters written by surveyors and clerks in the City Surveyor's Drawing Office. The first few volumes contain mostly internal correspondence, including copies of reports submitted, notifications of staff on sick leave, orders for supplies, and reports on work completed in the section. The later volumes include copies of external letters written to outside people and firms.

The Letter Books were written during a period when the City Surveyor was responsible not only for the normal surveying functions, but also for inspection of buildings and the night soil service. The letters deal with some of the following subjects: street repairs, building and surveying, encroachments, provision of lamps for streets, alignments, complaints from rate payers, sewers, preparation of plans and specifications, kerbs and gutters, returns for the Moore Park and Pyrmont Destructors, employment of carters, street lighting and street name changes. There is a subject index at the front of each volume.

In the 1970's, the records of defunct councils that were amalgamated with the Sydney City Council in 1949, were transferred to the custody of the Mitchell Library from Council due to lack of space. In 1992 these records were transferred back to Council's custody, including this series of letter books. It is not clear how they came to be transferred to the Mitchell Library in the first place, as they were Sydney City Council records, not those of a defunct council.
Relationship summaryCONTROLLED BY: Index to City Surveyors Department Letter Books AS-0786 (01/01/1888 to 01/01/1923)
CREATED BY: City Surveyors Department AG-0087 (01/01/1890 to 01/01/1923)
CREATED BY: City Engineer and City Surveyors Department I AG-0086 (01/01/1888 to 01/01/1890)
PRECEDED BY: City Surveyors Correspondence and Water Rate Register AS-0883 (01/01/1888)
RELATED TO: Resumption and Improvement Plans for Moore Street (Martin Place) AS-0418 (01/01/1888 to 01/01/1918)
RELATED TO: Private Ways Book AS-0781 (01/01/1888 to 01/01/1923)
RELATED TO: Allocation and changes of street names and street numbers AY-51 (01/01/1890 to 01/01/1923) RELATED TO: Road construction and maintenance AY-47 (01/01/1890 to 01/01/1923)
RELATED TO: Sewerage services AY-45 (01/01/1890 to 01/01/1923) RELATED TO: Provision of street lighting AY-25 (01/01/1890 to 01/01/1923)
RELATED TO: Disposal of waste by punting, tipping or destruction AY-8 (01/01/1890 to 01/01/1923)
RELATED TO: Removal of waste from streets, public places and premises AY-5 (01/01/1890 to 01/01/1923) LanguageEnglish (eng)




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Series
Private Ways Book

Private Ways Book

Town Clerk's Department Correspondence Files, 1914-1978 [Municipal Council of Sydney / City of Sydney]

Town Clerk's Department Correspondence Files, 1914-1978 [Municipal Council of Sydney / City of Sydney]

Town Clerk's Correspondence Folders, 1899-1913

Town Clerk's Correspondence Folders, 1899-1913

Access
Public access statusOpen to public accessPublic access noteAccess Notes:Some volumes are in poor physical condition
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Identification and Arrangement
Source system ID690System of arrangementNumerical by volume number then chronological by date of letter
Relationships
Controlled by seriesIndex to City Surveyor's Department Letter BooksPreceding seriesCity Surveyor's Correspondence and Water Rate RegisterRelated seriesPrivate Ways BookResumption and Improvement Plans for Moore Street (Martin Place)Creating agenciesCity Engineer and City Surveyor's Department ICity Surveyor's DepartmentRelated activitiesRemoval of waste from streets, public places and premisesDisposal of waste by punting, tipping or destructionProvision of street lightingSewerage servicesRoad construction and maintenanceAllocation and changes of street names and street numbers