Catalogue description Treasury Solicitor: Home Office Registers

Registers containing summary details of cases referred by the Home Office to the Treasury Solicitor for action and advice, and a note of their disposal. The entries concern legal business arising from the Home Office's responsibilities for such matters as criminal prosecutions, explosions, extradition, liquor licensing, mine regulations, prisons, transportation of convicts, workmen's compensation, etc.

The letter books and the correspondence to which these registers relate have not survived, apart from some material which will be found in TS 18

HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor, 1876-

Treasury Solicitor, 1655-1876