A history of the State Paper Office; with a view of the documents therein deposited / By F.S. Thomas.

  • Thomas, F. S. (Francis Sheppard), 1794?-1857.
Date:
1849
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A history of the State Paper Office; with a view of the documents therein deposited / By F.S. Thomas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    La Ca printed, and Calendars are being prepared describing the contents of each document relating to the subsequent reigns, so that the public may be enabled to have ready access to the originals where more full information of their contents shall be required. ‘ The Record Department was established in the year 1838, under the authority of the Act 1 & 2 Vict. c. 94. The general superintendence is vested in the Master of the Rolls, who is assisted by the following Officers :— ‘¢ Deputy Keeper of Records. “¢ Secretary. « Tight Assistant Keepers. ‘¢ ‘Twenty-one Clerks. | «¢ Besides certain offices and places of custody particularly mentioned in the Act, power is given to Her Majesty, with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order the Records deposited in any office, court, place, or custody other than those before mentioned. to be placed under the same charge and supermtendence, and their Lordships arranged with the Master of the Rolls that the management of the Records so transferred should be subject to regulations approved of by the heads of the departments to which they respectively belong. “ Large quantities of papers which had accumulated in the Treasury, Admiralty, and other Offices, have accord- ingly been transferred to the Record Department, where they are not only taken proper care of, but are more easily consulted than they were previously to their transfer. « As therefore Parliament has made provision for the brought under one central management, and this arrange- ment, besides its greater economy, would be productive of many obvious advantages, their Lordships are of opinion that no new appointments should be made to the separate retirement of the present Keeper of the State Papers the charge of that office should be transferred to the Master of the Rolls, and that the officers on the Establishment of the Record Department should after that be available for any duties for which they may be required in connexion with the arrangement, &c., of the documents deposited in the State Paper Office. «“ In November 1845 it was arranged, in consequence of the want of accommodation in the State Paper Office, that when a sufficient period has elapsed to confer an historical