[Transportation]

Correspondence respecting the Transfer to the Colony of the Imperial Convict Establishment

Perth, Richard Pether, Government Printer, 1884.

Foolscap folio, 6 pages.

Uncut and without wrappers, as issued; later neatly stapled into a manilla folder with a typed title-label on the front cover; a fine copy.

Western Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 22 of 1884. The last convicts transported to Australia arrived in Fremantle on the 'Hougoumont' in January 1868. This body of correspondence begins with the request to the Convict Department in WA for 'a complete list of those buildings which are no longer used for Imperial purposes, and which may now ... be handed over to the Colonial Government'. The lengthy and detailed list appears on the last page.