Registers recording payments of superannuation and retired allowances to staff of Public Departments, Commissions, Convict Establishments, etc.
The series also contains records of compensation paid under the Workmen's Compensation Patent Law Amendment and the Copyright Acts and in respect of abolished offices in the Courts of Justice etc; and some records of salaries paid by the Treasury and Office of the Paymaster of Civil Services, and of extraordinary expenses of Ministers abroad, and annuities arising from the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1912.