Petitions, posters, letters, minutes, reports, returns and other papers relating to miscellaneous police commission business

• Reference:GB 252 PE/17/Bundle50
• Dates of Creation:1866-1867

• Scope and Content

  Includes:

  Handbill, warning farm servants against unyolking their carts in Bridgend, 1867.

  Petition from Thomas Miller to the Lord Provost, magistrates and town council of Perth relating to the unyolking of dung carts outside his house in Bridgend, “the smell is offensive and we are obliged to shut our windows and retire to the opposite end of the house”, 1866.

  Petition by the inhabitants of Curfew Row against the use of Mr Murdoch’s sheds for slaughtering cattle and sheep because the premises have not been designed as such, or altered for the purpose, 1867.

  Minute of agreement and sale between the Perth police commissioners and Miss Murray relating to ground required for the opening up of Tay Street, 1867.

  Return by Superintendent of Police showing the rank, rates of pay, age and service of each member of the force, 1867.

  Representation to the Lord Provost and Magistrates of Perth by the medical men of the town concerning the probable contamination of the water supply by the louge drains “debouching” into the river. Suggests steps to alleviate the problem.

  General specification by the town council and police commissioners of the duties of the superintendent of their works whom they propose to appoint, 1867.

  Report by the clerk of police commissioners as to the removal of ashes and rubbish, 1867.

  Monthly returns by the Superintendent of Police showing crimes committed within the burgh, 1867.

  Handbill of G H Ramsay, Newcastle upon Tyne, advertising piping, tiles, water closets, etc, nd.

  Specifications for laying a pavement at Priory Place, Perth, nd.

  Copy correspondence between the clerk of police commissioners and William Greig relating to the ruinous tenement in Skinnergate, 1867.

  List of occupants in George Street, St John’s Street, Flesh Vennel, Watergate, etc assessed for the “side drainage”, 1867.

  Account from the Keeper of Horses, May 1867.

  Abstract expenditure and revenue of the police commissioners, 1867-1868.

  Notice relating to the special sewer rate for the western drainage district, 1867.

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