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Notifications to the City Commissioners from parishes of individuals appointed to the position of collector of rates.

Small number of papers regarding policing under the York Improvement Act

Judges opinions on warrants and the authority of Constables using them

Papers of the York City (Improvement) Commissioners. Includes minutes; general correspondence; election papers; financial papers; records relating to the administration of the general rate; correspondence relating to streets, drainage and lighting; policing papers and legal papers.

Printed notice of penalties for persons offending against the act. Include handwritten note on back of the notice regarding distribution throughout York

Printed notice of orders

Finance records of the York Improvement Commissioners

Bank books of the York Improvement Committee.

Receipts and accounts of expenses incurred by the surveyors for the City Commissioners under the York Improvement Act. Includes details of scavengers' wages.

Includes bills and receipts for services and goods bought by the City Commissioners under the York Improvement Act.

Bonds, contracts, cases, leases and purchases involving the City Commissioners

Handwritten extracts

Lists parishes in each ward in the City of York

Minutes of various committees established by the York Improvement Act and reporting to the City Commissioners.

Messrs Swann, Clough, Swann, Bland and Swann in account with the York Improvement Committee

Notices and papers relating to the enactment and amendment of the York Improvement Act 1825

Bound, printed copy of the Act. There are some references to the act in pencil in the front of volume.

List of names of Commissioners appointed under the York Improvement Act

Comprises signed and draft minutes of the City Commissioners for lighting, paving, watching and improving the City of York

Formal signed minutes of meetings of the City Commissioners

From the Treasurer to the City Commissioners

Handwritten minutes of various committees reporting to the City Commissioners

Handwritten minutes

Comprises receipts and accounts of expenses for street cleaning and improvements

Draft minutes of meetings of the City Commissioners

Handwritten minutes. Includes report of various committees to the City Commissioners in reverse at back of volume.

Mortgages taken out by City Commissioners on the rate for general purposes

Records relating to the administration of the general rate under the York Improvement Act.

Printed notices concerning the setting and collection of rates

Appeals against the rate for general purposes set by the York Improvement Act. Includes names of individuals appealing and brief description of properties being assessed.

Printed abstracts of accounts of monies received and paid under the York Improvement Act

Comprises receipts and accounts of expenses for street cleaning and improvements

The City Commissioners to Henry Hanson

Comprises receipts and accounts of expenses for street cleaning and improvements

Handwitten booklet of proposed amendments

Memorandum of an agreement between Robert Smithson, Esquire and the City Commissioners

Minutes of meetings including proposed amendments. MISSING as at Jan 2018

Comprises receipts and accounts of expenses for street cleaning and improvements.

Notice to demolish or remove a portion of Christ Church for the purpose of widening the streets. Includes draft copy and one copy with an attached list of where the notice was displayed.

Election notices and notification for election of City(Improvement) Commissioners.

Only the item dated 1837 lists returns for all four wards.

Papers concerning the election of City(Improvement) Commissioners.

Includes oaths to perform duties of the office and oaths of qualification (real estate), as Commissioners were required to own a certain amount of property in order to be eligible for election.

Comprises loose printed and handwritten oaths of elected Commissioners. Includes oaths to perform duties; oaths of qualification (real estate); and a small number of refusals to act. Each oath records the name of the relevant commissioner and witnesses.

Appeals against the rate for general purposes set by the York Improvement Act. Includes names of individuals appealing and brief description of properties being assessed.

Comprises correspondence, advertisements, petitions, handbills and notices.

Printed hand bills and notices relating to the cleaning and improvement of York's streets under the York Improvement Act.

Includes nomination lists and voting returns for the election of Commissioners in all four wards (Monk, Walmgate, Micklegate and Bootham). Nomination lists may include the names of those qualified to vote for Commissioners as well as the names of individuals nominated for election.

Handwritten extract

Letter to call meetings for the election of Commissioners

Comprises receipts and accounts of expenses for street cleaning and improvements.

Handwritten minutes with printed standing orders regarding meetings at front of book

Notice to all those willing to contract for the sweeping and cleansing of the streets

For the abatement of nuisance from five of the Commissioners

Copies of administrative letters and notices. Also includes copies of advertisements.

Order for the general cleansing of footpaths in York by the inhabitants

Judicial orders taken against Collectors of rates to enforce the performance of their duties. Includes correspondence and associated papers.

Messrs Swann, Clough, Swann, Bland and Swann in account with the York Improvement Committee

Oaths take by individuals responsible for ensuring payment of collected rates to the Treasurer of the City Commissioners

Order for the general cleansing of footpaths in York by the inhabitants

Printed handbill

Advertisement for scavengers for the four wards of York giving details of salaries. Notice is also given for an election.

Comprises briefs for the Defendants [draft and final copies] and an indictment for not repairing a highway in the parish of St Mary Bishophill, the Elder. City of York Michaelmas Quarter Sessions.

Notice by the Commissioners for any person willing to contract for making a main drain from Goodramgate to the River Ouse

Handwritten minutes

Letters and associated papers concerning street and drainage improvements.

Handwritten minutes. Includes at front of volume 1.handwritten standing orders at front of volume

2. abstract of accounts (26 May 1842-25 May 1843)

Regarding a proposed drain from Blake Street to the River Ouse.

Advertisement for contract to scavenge (clean) the streets of York.

Concerning a drain at Toft Green

Conveyance of a house by Elizabeth Peacock of Thorp Arch and others to the City Commissioners

Sarah Simpson, widow of William Simpson farmer of Nidd to the Rev John Gatenby of Newton-on-Ouse

Stating that the report of the committee appointed to view the state of St Leonard's place has been adopted by the Commissioners. Includes a copy of the committee's report.

Acknowledging the taking over responsibility for unpaved roads by the Commissioners, from the Corporation.

Handwritten minutes of various committees reporting to the City Commissioners. Includes two letters pasted into front of the volume concerning a proposal to rename Jubbergate.

Requesting that the enclosed resolution regarding the Bay Horse Public House be forwarded to the Town Council

Contract for purchase of ground from Joseph Buckle by the City Commissioners

Printed notice

Includes:

1. Specification of work and materials required in the taking down and rebuilding of the Spotted Dog Inn, St Saviourgate
   2.Contract between William Buckle, bricklayer, and the Commissioners for work to take down and rebuild the Spotted Dog Inn

Papers relating to the gas lighting of York's streets

Printed notice of orders