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- Title
Counting and Coding the Magistrates: A Report on a Project to Identify the Justices of the Peace of Van Diemen's Land, 1804-1860.
- Authors
Strike, Margaret H.; Roberts, David Andrew
- Abstract
The authors examine the individuals commissioned as a Justices of the Peace (JP) in Van Diemen's Land, also known as Tasmania, from 1804 and 1860. Topics discussed include the powers and responsibilities of a magistrate, the convict offenses dealt with by magistrates in Van Diemen's Land, and changes to the office of the JP in 1857.
- Subjects
TASMANIA; JUSTICES of the peace; FORMERLY incarcerated people; POWER (Social sciences); MAGISTRATES &; magistrates' courts
- Publication
Journal of Australian Colonial History, 2021, Vol 23, p185
- ISSN
1441-0370
- Publication type
Article