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Reference Number496.5 BA11241/E14/2
Hierarchy Browser Number8001/1/2/24/2
TitleProperty and Cemetery Committee
DescriptionTyped minutes of the amalgamated property and cemetery committee. Matters discussed include duties, resignations, appointment, salaries and pensions of staff; telephones and exchanges; council office furnishings and supplies; swans; fuel supply; cleaning, maintenance, improvements and other works to council property, land, cemeteries and furnishings; bills and purchases approved; haymaking and grass at the cemetery; memorial and tombstone approvals; portraits and plate in the Guildhall; insurance; purchase, lease, tenancy and eviction concerning Corporation land and properties; heating, lighting and ventilation; rooms and building rented by other Corporation departments; bequests to the council in exchange for the upkeep of specific graves; war memorial, soldiers' graves and the Imperial and Commonwealth War Graves Commissions; emergency exits; concerts and dances; government scheme to provide work for the unemployed; appointment of sub-committees; Pte Frederick Dancox's Victoria Cross; accidents to staff; complaints against staff; electricity installation, use and bills; arrangements for quarter sessions; The Performing Right Society's copyright infringement notice for music performed in public without a licence, 1927; displays, exhibitions and decorations in the Guildhall; discussions with the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings regarding the classification and upkeep of such buildings, as per the Ancient Monument Act 1913; trespassing in the cemeteries; donation of portraits, photographs and historic artefacts to the council; application to remove and reinter a body.
Date1928-1937
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