HM Procurator General: Report Books, Series II

TS 9

1815-1844

Entry books of HM Procurator General of papers relating to cases referred to him by the Treasury for report. Most of the cases concern claims from shipping agents, owners of private ships, etc, regarding the distribution of prize money or claims to the estates of deceased persons when the property has become bona vacantia owing to the deceased having died intestate or without a lawful heir.

The volumes record, besides the reports (known as 'Government Reports'), the associated correspondence, memorials, petitions and similar documents.

The reports in Series II are those of Henry Nicholl, HM Procurator General from 1815 to 1844. They are unindexed.

The volumes are arranged in roughly chronological order, but because there is much overlapping of dates between one volume and another the volumes have been assigned common dates corresponding to Nicholl's period of office.

It is apparent that several entry books were maintained at the same time, no attempt being made to distinguish them alphabetically by memorialist or according to the type of case concerned. It is possible that they were kept by different clerks. In some instances it would seem that as the case papers were received from the Treasury they were entered in the first available volume.

Public Record(s)

English

76 volume(s)