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Reference Numberb496.5 BA9630/A18/16
Hierarchy Browser Number8001/1/1/17
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 (some annual reports are glued-in printed copies), or matters that are to be forwarded to them for discussion. Matters discussed include bills, specifying those to be paid, the work or goods supplied and the amount; rates and their assessment and audit; lighting the street lamps; rent, leases, alterations and maintenance of corporation land and property; cemetery grants, giving name, residence, plots and amount paid by those reserving burial plots; resignation, appointment and salaries of council employees, council members and officers; addresses and gifts to royalty; rates; costs of prosecuting and maintaining prisoners; improvements to the markets; costs of maintaining inmates of the county and city lunatic asylum (some names given); registration of voters; investigations into inadequacies of prison accommodation and eventual amalgamation of county and city gaols; proposed installation of a sewer to remove a nuisance in Paynes Meadow; Union Assessment Act; copies of petitions from the Corporation; closure and restricted opening hours of cemeteries, and statistics on use and capacity; Hackney carriages and drivers licenses; inspection of and recommendations on preserving the council's records; nuisance at chemical manure works at Diglis; unrelated serious assault on one police officer and accidental drowning of another; widening the streets; audit of accounts; railways; appointment of magistrates; duties and responsibilities of the officers and committees; Post Office relocation; public baths; pleasure grounds; extension of water works; registration of voters; schools; and the enfranchisement of Corporation property.

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 labelled '16'.
Date1864-1867
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