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Reference Numberb496.5 BA9630/A18/15
Hierarchy Browser Number8001/1/1/16
TitleChamber Order Book
DescriptionHandwritten minutes compiled by Town Clerks and assistants.

This comprises almost entirely of reports received from the various other committees and sub-committees, or matters that are to be forwarded to them for discussion. Matters discussed include international exhibition; rent, leases and maintenance of corporation land and property; bills, specifying those to be paid, the work or goods supplied and the amount; removal of London Road turnpike; resignation, appointment and salaries of council employees, council members and officers; police station alterations and new station; water, sewerage and drainage to parts of the city and corporation properties; bye laws; addresses to royalty; regulation of various trades and industries; railways; improvements such as widening streets and purchase of land to do this, mostly regarding Vinegar Row, Clap Gate, and Sansome Place; cemetery grants, giving name, residence, plots and amount paid by those reserving burial plots; Hackney Carriage licences, sometimes including names and residences of drivers; expenses for maintenance of prisoners, criminal prosecutions etc; affects of local and national legislation; rates chargeable; petitions by the corporation to government; slaughterhouses; weighing machine; communications with and about various external societies and organisations; appointment of the Guardians of the Poor; county and city lunatic asylum finances; bridge repair; nuisances and health hazards posed by businesses etc; financial rewards to policemen for securing convictions; bequests; coal supply; Archaeological Institute; investigation of irregularities in accounts of a rate collectors; care and access to the city's documents and charter; cemetery opening in 1862; discrepancy in the asylum's accounts; street lighting; salary increases; Royal Agricultural Society; Worcester Pleasure Grounds; case concerning diseased cattle brought to market; Municipal Widows Asylum (Christopher Henry Hebb's almshouse); names of lunatics chargeable to the city in 1863.

Those proposing or seconding motions are named. The number of votes for or against is sometimes recorded and less frequently the names are too. Letters received that are discussed at the meetings are copied out in full. Spine is slightly damaged and torn, and is labelled '15'.
Date1861-1863
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