Guide to the Records of the Paymaster General Office (as filmed by the AJCP)

Collection Summary

Creator

Paymaster General Office: Great Britain

Title

Records of the Paymaster General Office (as filmed by the AJCP)

Date Range

1822 - 1823

Collection Number

PMG

Extent

1 item

Language of Materials

English

Repository

Australian Joint Copying Project

Sponsor

The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) online portal was created with the assistance of the Australian Public Service Modernisation Fund, 2017-2020. The National Library of Australia gratefully acknowledges the contributions of the other foundation AJCP partners, the State Library of New South Wales and The National Archives of the UK, and all other organisations which supported the work of the AJCP, the world's most extensive collaborative copying project, operating from 1948 to 1997.

Introduction

Scope and Contents

The records chiefly concern expenditure of the armed forces, and the payment of pensions, superannuations, allowances and bounties. The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) copied select items relating to the Army establishment in Australia (PMG 1).

Conditions Governing Access

Available for Access.

Conditions Governing Use

Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the National Archives of the UK. Further advice is available from: http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/legal/copyright/

Preferred Citation

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material (The National Archives of the UK) and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Citation of items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material at the National Archives of the UK and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: TNA Series: CO 201/429, New South Wales. Original Correspondence. Despatches May-June 1850 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Further information on citation guidelines is available at The National Archives of the UK (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/citing-documents-national-archives/).

Archival History

Material selectively filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project. AJCP Reels: 1541.

Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.

Existence and Location of Originals

The National Archives of the UK (TNA).

Series Reference: PMG. For further information, see PMG at TNA. (http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C11657)

Existence and Location of Copies

The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn557868 as well as other institutions holding ACP microfilm.

Finding Aid Note

Dates used in the this finding aid refer to those of the records selected for filming by the AJCP rather than to the date range of the original Class, Series or File.

This online finding aid, published by the National Library of Australia in 2018, is a revised version of the original paper handbooks:

Australian Joint Copying Project. Handbook. Part 6. Public Record Group: Air Ministry, Board of Trade, Exchequer and Audit Department, Treasury and other Record Groups, Second Edition, pp xvi, 65, National Library of Australia, 1995.

Subjects

Great Britain: Paymaster General's Office

Bibliography

This revised finding-aid was originally published as:

Australian Joint Copying Project. Handbook. Part 6. Public Record Group: Air Ministry, Board of Trade, Exchequer and Audit Department, Treasury and other Record Groups, Second Edition, National Library of Australia, 1995.