BY J. MOORE-ROBINSON, F.R.G.S. 161 



Chief to the Home Government; a few Court Documents and 

 Survey Records, and the terse official notes and notices of 

 the Hobart Toivn Gazette, which began publication on June 

 1st, 1816; these, and a few odds and ends, are the main 

 bases on which the story of the years 1804 to 1824 has to 

 be founded. 



I will tabulate those that have come under my own 

 notice: — 



(1) Our Survey Department has some interesting 

 Records of Land Grants, Buildings and Allotments, State- 

 ments of Fees, etc., which are being indexed, and so made 

 available. 



(2) We have a priceless original Land Grant dated 

 December 18th, 1805, signed by Philip Gidley King, devising 

 that "Henrietta Farm" of 100 acres on the banks of the 

 Derwent, to Henry Hayes. This is, I believe, the oldest land 

 document extant relating to Tasmania. In the Chief Secre- 

 tary's possession. 



(3) A MS. Map dated 1803 of the country East of the 

 Derwent, by .James Meehan, with that Surveyor's Field 

 Books. In possession of Lands and Survey Department. 

 This map, the oldest extant of Tasmania, has some curious 

 and interesting features. These are dealt with in my 

 Tasmanian Nomenclature published in 1911, and by Mr. T. 

 Dunbabin in some articles published in The Mercury in 1912, 

 and headed "In the Map Room." 



(4) Two type-written copies (in the possession of the 

 Royal Society of Tasmania) of some of Governor Sorell's 

 Letters and Despatches dated 1818. 



(5) A Book half full of Drafts and Letters to Home 

 Government Departments by various Governors from 1818 to 

 1824. His Excellency the Governor has kindly allowed me 

 to peruse this book, which is in his official possession. 



(6) A book of some of the Records of the Judge 

 Advocates Court. It is endorsed "No. 7," and dated froni 

 June 2, 1823. This is in the Chief Secretary's Vaults. 



(7) Sundry Deeds and Bonds, fragmentary and dis- 

 connected, dated from 1819 onward. In the Chief Secretary's 

 Vaults. 



(8) Some unexamined Files of Correspondence which 

 Dr. Watson and I recently found at George Town, and which 

 are now in the possession of the Chief Secretary. 



