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Detail of ground plan to convert southern wall of Hyde Park Barracks into temporary Coroners Court and other offices June 1887

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[NRS-4335-5-Plan1718-473_87 (Detail)]

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State Archives & Records New South Wales

Statutory body established by the State Records Act 1998. The Act provides for the creation, management and protection of the records of public offices of the State and for public access to those records.

Based at Kingswood, State Archives and Records NSW manage and provide access to the New South Wales State archives collection, a unique and irreplaceable part of Australia's cultural heritage dating back to 1788.

 

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Office of the City Coroner

A branch of the Attorney General's department that kept details and statistics for the City Coroner for the Sydney Metropolitan coroners and incumbents in other country New South Wales districts from the 1830s until the late 1930s or early 1940s when the branch was absorbed into the Petty Sessions Branch.

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Hyde Park Barracks

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Georgian brick building at the southern end of Macquarie Street. Designed by colonial architect Francis Greenway to house male convicts, it subsequently became an immigration depot, government asylum, law courts and museum.

Patent Office

NSW government body established in August 1887 to grant patents. The NSW patents system had been established in 1852 by the Inventions Registration Act, and the first Registrations of Inventions were granted in 1855, administered by the Attorney General's department. The establishment of the Patent Office and the role of Examiner of Patents also a reduction in the fee to apply to register an invention from £20 to £5. Prior to the establishment of the Patent Office, the fees were distributed amongst the staff of the Attorney-General's department. The last patents issued by the NSW Patent Office were in 1904, when the Patent Offices in all the states were federated.

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