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Resumed Property Cards, 1908-1925

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Creating agencies

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Management of Council property

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Boxes in this Series (13)

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Related series (3)

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Property Cards, 1906-1990

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Unique IDAS-0744DateBetween 1st January 1906 and 1st January 1990Date qualifiercircaFormatCardDescriptionThis series contains cards recording tenancy details for commercial and residential properties owned by Council, and also properties occupied by Council departments.

The cards record the street address, the name of the tenant, period of the lease, rental paid, references to files in CRS 34, Town Clerk's Correspondence Files, and CRS 116, Central Activity Files, and any remarks. The remarks include references to Council resolutions affecting the property, details of property sales, and if the property was handed over to another Council or Authority. This includes the transfer of some of the markets to the Sydney Marketing Authority in 1968, and the residential flats to the Department of Housing in 1988.

The cards for residential properties erected by Council record details of when the buildings were opened, the cost of construction and the number of dwellings in each unit.

As the tenancies expired, the cards were removed from the drawer and bundled separately. This means that there are cards for the one property in different boxes, eg there are cards for the Dowling Street Dwellings in Boxes 1, 2, and 9.

The earlier cards in Boxes 1 to 6 have slightly different formats to the later cards but the information is basically the same. For this reason they have been placed in the one series.

This series is cross-indexed in CRS 746, Tenancy Cards, 1912+, which is arranged alphabetically by the name of the tenant. Earlier information is contained in CRS 743, Resumed Property Cards, 1908-1925, which records details about properties that were resumed by Council and leased on a short-term basis. Some of the properties in this earlier series were demolished to make way for buildings erected by Council, such as its markets and residential dwellings.

CRS 742, Register of Applicants for Public Housing, 1934-1986, is also related to this series as it records applications for housing in Council's residential dwellings such as the Strickland Buildings and the Dowling Street Dwellings.

In November 1988, the Commissioners who had replaced Council in 1986, handed over the whole stock of residential rental property to the State Department of Housing to administer. Council retained the cards for these properties and handed over photocopies.

This card system ceased to operate at the end of 1988. From 1989 the rental of Council properties is recorded in a Register of Leases and in 1993 was partly computerised.Relationship summaryCREATED BY: Properties II AG-0011 (01/01/1983 to 01/01/1992)
CREATED BY: Administration Department AG-0003 (01/01/1972 to 01/01/1982)
CREATED BY: Properties Department I AG-0091 (01/01/1950 to 01/01/1971)
CREATED BY: Town Clerks Department AG-0040 (01/01/1947 to 01/01/1950)
CREATED BY: Valuation and Properties Department AG-0080 (01/01/1935 to 01/01/1947)
CREATED BY: Town Clerks Department AG-0040 (01/01/1931 to 01/01/1935)
CREATED BY: Corporation Assets and Stores Department AG-0079 (01/01/1900 to 01/01/1931)
PRECEDED BY: Resumed Property Cards AS-0743 (01/01/1925)
RELATED TO: Tenancy Cards AS-0746 (01/01/1906 to 01/01/1990)
RELATED TO: Register of Applicants for Public Housing AS-0742 (01/01/1934 to 01/01/1986)
RELATED TO: Property Maintenance Books AS-0745 (01/01/1906 to 01/01/1988)
RELATED TO: Management of Council property AY-19 (01/01/1900 to 01/01/1990) LanguageEnglish (eng)

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CSA045188

CSA045187

CSA045186

CSA045185

CSA045184

CSA045183

CSA045182

CSA045181

CSA045180

CSA045179

CSA045178

CSA045177

CSA045176

Series

Tenancy Cards, 1912-1973

Resumed Property Cards, 1908-1925

Register of Applicants for Public Housing, 1934-1986

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Identification and Arrangement

Source system ID744System of arrangementRoughly chronological

Relationships

Preceding seriesResumed Property Cards, 1908-1925Related seriesProperty Maintenance Books, 1961-1984Register of Applicants for Public Housing, 1934-1986Tenancy Cards, 1912-1973Creating agenciesCorporation Assets and Stores DepartmentTown Clerk's DepartmentValuation and Properties DepartmentProperties Department IAdministration DepartmentProperties IIRelated activitiesManagement of Council property

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