Queensland prisons kept records of prisoners' admissions, criminal history and physical descriptions, either separately or combined in the same register. This series consists of registers of male and female prisoners admitted to HM Gaol, Brisbane.
The details given include the gaol annual number, name, mode of arrival (overland or by ship), the name of the ship, year of arrival, condition on arrived and on entering gaol), where born, religion, trade or calling, date and place of committal and by whom, date of reception in gaol, offence, sentence, how disposed of, date of discharge and conduct in gaol.
These registers may also be known as 'Admission Books', 'Reception Books', 'Entrance Books', 'Male/Female Registers', 'Committed Books', etc., and differ from other series called "Register of prisoners admitted (with description)" in that the latter include physical descriptions of prisoners.