• Title
  Tasmania. Supreme Court - Death warrants and related papers, 1818-1884
• Creator
  Tasmania. Supreme Court
• Call number
  C 202 - C 203
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1818 - 1884
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  447437
• Issue Copy
  Microfilm : 1818-1855).
  Microfilm : 1827-1884).
  
• Physical Description
  2 volumes - 0.12 Meters
  Textual Records
  
• Scope and Content
  1818-1884; Death warrants for the execution of prisoners in Tasmania; with related papers including receipts for bodies received at hospitals, orders for sentences to be commuted to penal servitude for life, and for transportation to Macquarie Harbour. There are two photographs in volume 2 (C 203) which may be of James Sutherland in 1883 and Henry Stock in 1884. (Call No.: ML C 202 - C 203)
• System of arrangement
  The warrants and papers are not in chronological order within the two volumes; volume 1 contains documents dated between 1818-1855 and volume 2 beween 1827-1884.
• General note
  
  D.S. Mitchell signature in both volumes
  Digital order no:Album ID : 877138
• Subject
  Capital punishment--Tasmania.
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  Warrants (Law)--Tasmania.
  
• Place
  Tasmania
  
• Exhibited in
  
  On the Run. Daring Convict Escapes - State Library of New South Wales (6 November, 2006 - 9 February, 2007)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3241852

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