Blue Book, Port Phillip District of New South Wales, 1836 – Commissioners of Crown Lands

Columns:	R [Role]; D is whether the role is Resident [R] or Visiting [V].
	PM (Police Magistrate), GC (Gold Commissioner 1851-1855), GW (Gold Warden 1855-1929), CCL (Commissioner of Crown Lands), and CP (Chinese Protector) show the Golden Colony roles that each person held at the same time.

Roles:	= Government Office (Paid); = Government Duties (Unpaid); = On leave; = TBD; = Agriculture; = Private enterprise; = Parliament;
	= British Army; = Royal Marines; = British Militia; = Colonial Militia; = East India Company Army; = Royal Navy; = Other Maritime;
	= Education; = Army Education; = Navy Education; = Immigration; = Emigration; = Other voyage.

Abbreviations:	BB = Blue Book; CCL = Commissioner of Crown Lands; CP = Chinese Protector; CPS = Clerk of Petty Sessions; GC = Gold Commissioner;
	GR = Gold Receiver; GW = Gold Warden; JP = Justice of the Peace (Magistrate); PM = Police Magistrate;
	FN = Footnotes; PSL = Public Service List; S/S1/S2 = Source; TBC/TBD = To be confirmed/determined.

Appointments:	= Appointed; = Reappointed; = Promoted; = Demoted; = Redesignated; = Succeeded/Replaced; = Transferred to; = Made permanent;
	= Retired; = Dismissed; = Passed (Examinations); = Paid as (role).
	British Army: = Purchase of Commission; = Exchange rank/regiment; = Reduced to Reserve list; = Retired by sale of Commission.

Assignments:	The location or district the person was assigned to. A number in the OP column (Other Places) means that they also sat at that many other locations of Courts of Petty Sessions. The number of other locations changed from time to time as courts were created, abolished, or reassigned.

Sources (S, S1, S2):	= Blue Book; = Blue Book derived; = Government Gazette; = Government Gazette derived; = Public Service List; = Public Service List derived;
	= Report; = Book; = Birth/Baptism/Marriage/Death document; = Birth/Baptism/Marriage/Death extract; = Cemetery; = Census; = Legal;
	= Newspaper family notice; = Newspaper article; = Magazine article; = Unconfirmed; = Military service record; = Internet.

Other Symbols:	= External link.

Dates:	Dates are in YYYY-MM-DD format. Ongoing = Continues into next calendar year; New date; Date changed in source; Date died; Date to be confirmed.
	"Original" is the date the person commenced the role. For example, when first appointed a Police Magistrate, regardless of later re-appointments and re-assignments.

Unconfirmed:	All text in magenta is unconfirmed.

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Comments

Surveyors Robert Russell and Frederick Robert D’Arcy were assigned to the Port Phillip District soon after the appointment of William Lonsdale as Police Magistrate. In the absence of any other government mechanisms in Port Phillip, they were also appointed Commissioners of Crown Lands to give them the powers to conduct their work surveying the new district.

At the time, a Commissioner of Crown Lands was a set of duties. It was not until 1837 that Commissioner of Crown Lands became a full-time position with responsibility for an entire district. Peter Snodgrass was the first such Commissioner of Crown Lands for Port Phillip, appointed in 1838.

Commissioners of Crown Lands

BB	Name	Title	Original	R	D	Gazette	From	To	Assignment	OP	PM	GF	CL	CP	S1	S2	Comments	Next	FN
P1836	D'Arcy, Frederick Robert	Commissioner			R	1836-09-20	1836-09-20	Ongoing	Port Phillip District								Assistant Surveyor.
P1836	Russell, Robert	Commissioner			R	1836-09-20	1836-09-20	Ongoing	Port Phillip District								Assistant Surveyor.

References

Sources

	Returns of the Colony of New South Wales for the Year 1836; (Unpublished), Sydney, 1837 [NSW BB1836].
	Various issues of the New South Wales Government Gazette, 1836.

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2024-11-10

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