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Catalogue description Colonial Office: Accounts Branch and successors: Original Correspondence
| Reference: | CO 431 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Colonial Office: Accounts Branch and successors: Original Correspondence |
| Description: |
This series contains records of the Accounts Branch and successors consisting of correspondence with colonial governors, the Treasury and other departments and with individuals relative to financial matters. |
| Date: | 1868-1925 |
| Arrangement: |
Bound volumes of correspondence with governors, public offices and individuals arranged chronologically and by the registered numbers taken from the registers in CO 622. |
| Related material: |
See also CO 701 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Copies held at: |
Microfilm copies were created as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project (1948-1997). The microfilm images have been digitised and made available online by the National Library of Australia. |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Physical description: | 152 volume(s) |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure |
| Unpublished finding aids: |
For a register of correspondence see CO 622 |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The financial work of the Colonial Office was originally handled by the chief clerk. In 1869 the Accounts Branch, set up in pursuance of the Exchequer and Audit Act 1866, was brought under his control. By 1874 it was a distinct body, no longer under the chief clerk, and had been renamed the Financial Department. The General and Financial Departments were fused in 1896 as the General and Financial Department under the chief clerk and dealt with major financial questions. It was renamed the General Department in 1901. A second Financial Department, set up in 1896, was concerned with accounting and became the Accounts Department in 1898. |
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