Mitteilungen des Österreichischen Staatsarchivs 4. (1951)
BISCHOFF, Norbert: Zentralarchiv für Jüdische Geschichte. – Diaspora-Forschungsinstitut - BEYERS, Coenrad: The Archives of the Union of South Africa
288 Archivberichte Orange Free State. The Orange Free State Archives contain, among others, the records of the Orange River Sovereignty from 1849 to 1854, the records of the Orange Free State Republic from 1854—1900 and the Military Rule and Crown Colony records from 1900—1907. In Republican times there was no Archival organisation and it was not until 1903 that Major E. C. Calverley was appointed Government Librarian and Keeper of the Archives. Major Calverley left the civil service in 1908, and a successor was not appointed until after Union. Post-Union Development. Union saw great strides in Archives development, although it was not until 1919 that any definite steps were taken to put Archives administration upon a sound basis. In that year Mr. (later Dr.) C. Graham Botha who had been placed in charge of the Cape Archives in 1912, was appointed Chief Archivist responsible for both Union and Provincial Archives and the work of co-ordinating the Archives of the four provinces was put into effect. In 1922 the Public Archives Act, No. 9 of 1922, was passed, which divides the Archives into (a) Union Archives and (b) Provincial Archives. Those records falling under (a) are the records of the Central Government since Union, those under (b) are the records of the Provincial Administration and for practical reasons the records of Magisterial offices are treated as falling under (b). Records when they are thirty years old are regarded as no longer current and are transferred to the Archives Depots. The new Magistrates’ Courts Act, No. 32 of 1944, puts the age for Magisterial records at 15 years. A new Archives Bill, extending the powers of the Archives and providing more adequately for present day requirements, has been drawn up, and will it is hoped be placed on the 1951 Statute Book. The Union Archives are centralised in the Archives Depot in the administrative capital, Pretoria, and the Provincial Archives are deposited in the Archives Depots of the respective Provinces. In terms of the Archives Act an Archives Commission has been appointed, and rules and regulations have been issued for the public use of the Archives, the disposal of valueless records, and the transfer of Public Archives to the Depots. There was a great need for Archives buildings to house the mass of records and in 1925 provision was made for the Orange Free State Archives when a specially constructed Archives building was built in Bloemfontein — the first Archives building to be erected in South Africa. The Cape Archives remained in the basement of the Houses of Parliament until 1934 when they were removed to the old Cape University building in Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town, after it had been specially adapted for Archives purposes. In 1936 an Archives Depot for Natal was built in Pietermaritzburg. The Transvaal Archives were, in 1913, housed in the basement of the Union Buildings where they still are. The Transvaal is the only Province which has not an Archives building. Archives expansion was not confined to buildings; there was also an increase of staff. In 1924 the post of Archivist of the Natal Archives was
