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Reference NoAS/Ains/1/1
Alt Reference NoDD654/1/1
TitleInsch Burgh Minute Book
Description9 Nov 1819 - 4 Jan 1860.
Minutes of meetings of the feuars and burghers of Insch, mainly concerning roads but also disturbances and theft at fairs (Nov 1826), and collection of cess.
Inside the minute book in a hand made and stitched pocket (now moved to an archive envelope):-
- Road assessment lists for 1842, 1848 - 1850, 1852 - 1854, 1856 - 1858
- Letter of notice from A Leith Hay that no turf should be cut from the Market stance and commonty near the town of Insch, 14 July 1846
- List of those who have not paid their proportion of expenses for improvements of the town of Insch, 1850
- Notice that George Wright has been appointed to dispose of the public dung 'for the public benefit', 13 May 1854
- Report of the sanitary conditions of the Town of Insch, February 1854 (for the parochial board)
- Letter from the Crown Agents Chambers, Edinburgh to the Chief Magistrate of the Burgh of Insch instructing them to complete the return for the burgh of Insch under the Resolution of the House of Commons, 6 July 1846 re the establishment of a 'general system of police'
Date1819 - 1860
Extent1 volume
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