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- 1896 - 1915 (Accumulation)
- 1893-01-01 - 1903-01-01 (Creation)
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The Department of Lands and Surveys was one of the oldest government agencies in Western Australia, having been constituted under the name of the Survey Office in 1829. The Office became the Surveyor-General's Department in 1870 and was organized into two branches - Crown Lands and Surveys. The Department was administered by the Surveyor-General who also held the title of Commissioner of Crown Lands.
The Department was restyled the Crown Lands and Surveys Department in 1873 and, in 1890, the Department of Land and Surveys.
The Department of Lands and Surveys was responsible for the leasing and alienation of Crown Lands (except where mining and forestry tenures were involved*), the reservation of land for public purposes and roads, the surveying and classifying of land, and the exploration and mapping of the State. From its inception, the Department was also active in promoting immigration and settlement, and until 1973 was responsible for administering various Assisted Passage Immigration Schemes.
Immigration remained one of the functions of the Department until 1986, and the Department was responsible for the administration of the Noalimba Reception Centre.
Following a functional review, the Department was reorganized and renamed the Department of Land Administration in 1986.
- Initially, the Department was responsible for virtually all aspects of land administration, but with the establishment of the Department of Mines (1893) and the Forests Department (1919), it relinquished control of mining and forestry matters.
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This series comprises several groups of cadastral plans (not all of them Public Plans) that were drawn during the same period as the Standard Series (Record Series No. 979).
These plans generally conform to grids and scales within individual land districts. A small group of plans also cover Northampton, King Sound and the Warburton Ranges.
Due to the lack of conformity within this series each sequence has been assigned a separate consignment number (N.B. there are two Avon plan sequences, one of which describes plans that were drawn but never used as Public Plans).
- Avon, 80 chain (consignment 4931);
- Avon, 80 chain, non-public plans (consignment 4976);
- Cockburn Sound, 80 chain (consignment 4932);
- Eastern, 10 mile scale (consignment 5375);
- Melbourne, 80 chain (consignment 4933);
- Melbourne, 80 chain, non-public plans (consignment 4933);
- Murray, 80 chain (consignment 4934);
- Nelson 20 & 80 chain (consignment 4935);
- Northampton Classification, 40 chain (consignment 4936);
- Swan, 80 chain (consignment 4937);
- Wellington, 80 chain (consignment 4938);
- Melbourne & Victoria, 80 chain lithos (consignment 5474).
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Copies: Copies of plans on aperture card are held by Landgate (Midland). Digital copies of plans for consignments 4931 (Avon), 4933 (Melbourne) and 4934 (Murray) are available online - choose the appropriate Record Item and then click on the link at "Digital Copy".