This series consists of nine brown visidex folders with yellow spine labels bearing the title: "Seventh Menzies Ministry - Cabinet decisions" and the volume number and range of contents.
Decisions are arranged in a single number sequence, one per page per decision (or more if necessary). A suffix is added to the decision
number to distinguish between the three categories of the decision making operative at that time.
- The First category was The Ministry which was the
broadest category, comprising all ministers, and its
decisions bear an 'M' suffix
- The second category was an inner Cabinet of senior
Ministers, with occasional co-options. There was no letter
suffix added to its decisions numbers.
- The third category was the Committees of the Cabinet -
groups of Ministers who dealt with matters affecting
their portfolios.
The letter symbol for the Committee is added to the Decision Number to identify its decisions eg.(LEG) for Legislation Committee.
Each decision bears the number, title, submission number where applicable and text of the decision. It is stamped as a certified true copy with a signature stamp of the Secretary to the Cabinet.
No parallel series of submissions was maintained contemporaneously. Submissions were placed on files in CRS A4940, Cabinet files,
'C' single number series, 1958-1967. Recently two artifical sets of submissions have been copied and assembled by the Cabinet Secretariat.(First Series: CRS A5818 and Second Series: CRS A5819).
There is no subject index for these decisions, although several registers are extant. A circuitous approach can be made through consulting the Ministerial register of submissions (CRS A4937) in the section for the Minister who might have sponsored a submission relating to the subject sought.
The register shows the relevant decision number. An alternative approach is to consult a summary of Cabinet and Cabinet Committee meetings in CRS A4944.
First series decisions are contained in volumes 1 - 5, 10 Dec 1958 - 19 Dec 1961 and second series decisions in volumes 6 -9, 11 Jan 1962 - 4 Nov 1963.Quantity in agency custody
9 volumes (original) held by CA 1472, Cabinet Office