| Roles: | The column headed R [Role] is the assigned role. |
| The columns headed PM [Police Magistrate], GF [Gold Commissioner (1851-1855) or Warden of the Gold Fields (1855-1907)], CCL [Commissioner of Crown Lands], and CP [Chinese Protector] show the Golden Colony roles that each person held at the same time. They do not include other roles, which may be indicated in the Comments column or on the person's profile page. |
| = Government Office (Paid), = Government Duties (Unpaid), = On leave, = To be determined. |
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| Abbreviations: | BB = Blue Book CCL = Commissioner of Crown Lands, CP = Chinese Protector, Clerk PS = Clerk of Petty Sessions, GC = Gold Commissioner, GR = Gold Receiver, |
| GW = Warden of the Gold Fields, 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. |
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| Appointments: | = Appointed, = Reappointed (under new legislation), = Promoted, = Demoted, = Redesignated, = Succeeded, = Transferred, = Replaced. |
| = Position made permanent, = Paid as (role). |
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| 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. |
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| Sources (S1, S2): | = Blue Book, = Blue Book derived, = Government Gazette, = Government Gazette derived, = Public Service List, = Public Service List derived, |
| = Report, = Birth/Baptism/Marriage/Death document, = Birth/Baptism/Marriage/Death extract, = Cemetery, = Census, = Legal, |
| = Newspaper family notice, = Newspaper article, = Book/Magazine, = Other, = Unconfirmed, = Military service record, = Internet. |
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| Dates: | Dates are in YYYY-MM-DD (year-month-day) 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. |
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| Other Symbols: | = External link. |
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| Unconfirmed: | All text in magenta is unconfirmed information. |
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