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Reference Numberb496.5 BA9360/A18/17
Hierarchy Browser Number8001/1/1/18
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 bills, specifying those to be paid, the work or goods supplied and the amount; extension to the water works; new prison building, regulations and staff, and the merger of the city and county prisons; superannuation; complaints regarding nuisances, smoke and smells; rates and audits; accounts and finances; maintenance, repair and improvements to corporation land, property and infrastructure; leases, rent and renewal for corporation properties; proposed construction of public slaughter houses at the cattle market; payments to and by schools; cemetery grants, giving name, residence, plots and amount paid by those reserving burial plots; return of lunatics chargeable to the city; extension of the city boundaries; old prison staff and building; resignation, appointment and salaries of council employees, council members and officers; Visitors of Worcester Prison reports; members and duties of the sub-committees; expenses for criminal prosecutions; anonymous letters left in public; address to royalty; typhoid fever and other public health matters; cemetery rules and offices; markets regulations; additional water mains; lamp lighting; lifesaving equipment for rivers and canals; Hackney carriages; turnpikes; enfranchisement of corporation property; sale of alcohol on Sundays; Dolphin Inn; establishment of free libraries; proposed construction of railways and tramways; death rates and causes; bathing in the river; compliance with the Elementary Education Act 1870; lunatic asylum; licence to store petroleum; absconding of the sheriff; and the police.

Some entries are underlined in pencil. Some of the reports are printed versions that have been glued in. 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 was labelled '17' but this has fallen off and been annotated in pen.
Date1867-1872
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