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Reference NoAS/Kstn/17/2
TitleStonehaven Burgh: Bundle of correspondence, petitions and election papers
Description• Papers relating to Police Commissioners and Town Council elections in 1891, 1895, 1898, 1902 and 1904
• Petition to Commissioners asking for public slaughterhouse, and three letters withdrawing their signatures, 1899
• Petition to House of Commons in favour of the Great North of Scotland Railway Company by Commissioners, 1897
• Letter to Clerk of Commissioners re. cesspool from Robert McKendrick, 1897
• Correspondence from various parties (including Burgh Surveyor, Local Government Board, Swimming Club etc) on matters relating to public health , building plans, bathing boxes, water supply, sewers, hospitals and tobogganing.
• Application for new suit of uniform of Town’s Officer, 1897
• Circular letters relating to efforts to mark Queen Victoria’s jubilee, 1897
• Notices re. sewer works, 1893 and 1897
• Petition of proprietors and ratepayers against enforcing the Burgh Police Scotland Act 1892 regarding replacing privies with water closets (including 3 pages of signatures)
• Petition of Stonehaven Football Club for funds to build dressing rooms.
Date1890-1904
Extent1 bundle
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