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RE/P: Roberts & Evans: Papers relating to Public Institutions

Acc.3296

Ref: RE/PC

Reference: RE/PC
Title: Roberts & Evans: Cardiganshire Clerk of the Peace
Dates: 1758-1896
Level of description: Series
Extent: 2 Sub-Series
Scope and Content: Cardiganshire Clerk of the Peace records

Comprising:

RE/PC/1 Papers: 1811-1893

RE/PC/2 Acts of Parliament: 1758-1896

Both Sub-Series are arranged chronologically.

Formerly catalogued as NLW Roberts & Evans Z 78-79

Associated material: c. 30 rolls of railway and other public utility plans, and associated books of reference, deposited with the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Cardiganshire, are held at NLW in the map collection.


Cardiganshire Clerk of the Peace Papers

Ref: RE/PC/1
Date(s): 1811-1893
Level: Sub-Series
Extent: 19 Files
Scope and Content: Papers relating to the Clerk of the Peace in the county of Cardiganshire.


Ref: RE/PC/1/1
Date(s): 1811-[c.1888]
Extent: 1 File
Scope and Content: Miscellaneous government papers

Comprising:
'Standing Orders of the House of Commons relating to private bills and other matters', 1811. 'The London Gazette', 14 March 1856.
'Agricultural Returns of Great Britain, with abstract returns for the United Kingdom, British possessions and foreign countries', 1869 and 1870.
'Memorandum on the construction of police stations, with plans', by Lt-Col E. F. Du Cane, Surveyor-General of Prisons, 1875, and covering letter, 1876.
Instructions for the registration of ownership electors, [post 1888].


Ref: RE/PC/1/2
Date(s): 1815-1822]
Extent: 1 File
Scope and Content: Poor Law and Poor Rate Reports

Comprising:
'Abstract of returns relative to the expense and maintenance of the poor', pp. 573-626 (Wales), and 4 page summary for England and Wales, 1815.
'Report from the select committee on the poor laws - with the minutes of evidence taken before the committee; and an appendix', 1817.
'Report from the committee on the poor laws', House of Commons, 1819.
'Report from the select committee on poor rate returns', House of Commons, 1822.
'A bill to amend the laws regarding the maintenance of the poor', 1822.


Ref: RE/PC/1/3
Date(s): 1821-1835]
Extent: 1 File
Scope and Content: New Quay Harbour Pier and Harbour

Comprising:
Report and estimate by John Rennie, 1821.
Report and estimates on New Quay pier and road by Daniel Beynon, civil engineer, 1834 (two copies).
'An act for constructing and maintaining a harbour at New Quay in the county of Cardigan’, 1835.


Ref: RE/PC/1/4
Date(s): [c.1837]-1887
Extent: 1 File
Scope and Content: Miscellaneous deeds and documents relating to Cardiganshire

Including:
Oaths of loyalty and for the performance of the office of Coroner for the county of Cardiganshire by John Phillips, [1837x1850].
Reference book of lands on the proposed new line of the road from Cynwyl to Llechryd Bridge, from Blaenbenewid to Panttreailey and from Abercych to Ddol, in Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Cardiganshire, deposited at the Office of the Clerk of the Peace, 1839.
Part of a printed poster showing a longitudinal section of the road at Pont Llanddewi Aber-arth, showing the inclines on either side of the proposed bridge, 1846.
'These gates / also clear / The Ty'nrhyd or Devil's Bridge / gates', [1850s?].
Application to the Public Works Loan Commission for £3815, the amount payable by Cardiganshire for the new buildings at the Joint Counties Lunatic Asylum at Carmarthen, 1879.
Conveyance by the borough of Aberystwyth to Frederick Rowland Roberts, Clerk of the Peace, of land in Bridge Street and Trefechan, for widening the bridge over the river Rheidol, 1887.


Ref: RE/PC/1/5
Date(s): 1842-1892
Extent: 1 File
Scope and Content: Tables of Fees

Papers relating to the table of fees and allowances payable to Clerks of the Peace and Parish Constables under 'An act for the appointment and payment of parish constables', 5&6 Vic., c.109 (includes Glamorganshire).
‘Rules for regulation of police', including table of fees for parochial constabulary, 1841.
Tables of fees agreed for Herefordshire, October 1842
Table of fees agreed for Brecknockshire., January 1843
Table of fees agreed for Cardiganshire. at the Epiphany Quarter Sessions, 1843.
Table of fees to be taken by the Clerk to the Peace for Cardiganshire, 1892 (three copies).


Ref: RE/PC/1/6
Date(s):1842-1930
Extent: 1 File
Scope and Content: Papers relating to public offices

Loose papers relating to public offices, including:
Letters from John W. Rees of Penygarreg and Benjamin Lewis of Carmarthen, land surveyors, relating to proposed surveys of Gwynfil town and the parishes of Llanilar, Llangwyryfon and Lledrod, April and December 1842.
Account for the sequestration of the parish churches of Llanafan and Gwnnws, July-October 1867.
Return of the pauper lunatics at Carmarthen Asylum, January 1876.
Printed list of justices, with their dates of qualification and the petty sessional division in which they usually act, 1905.
Particulars of attendance at meetings of members of Cardiganshire Education Committee, 1910-1913.
Cardigan War Pensions Committee supplemental list of discharged soldiers (four names), Llandysul district, [1914x1919].
Printed list of persons who have taken out gun and game licences, August 1917.
Road Tax disc for a Ford Goods Hackney, registration BX 5165, surrendered by Blaenhafod Stores, Ffostrasol, May 1930.
The papers were extracted from a box of loose papers collected from the floor of a storeroom at Roberts & Evans (Box 101/1); some papers relating to public offices may well remain among the rump of 101/1 loose papers (see CG 3/10).

ConsitionMany of the papers are dirty with coal dust.


Ref: RE/PC/1/7
Date(s): 1847
Extent: 1 File
Scope and Content: Poll Books

Two poll books (with 1844 and 1845 watermarks) for an election between Phillips, Jones and Nugent in the parishes Cardigan St Marys, Llangoedmor, Llechryd, Llandygwydd, Y Ferwig, Y Mwnt, Tre-main, Aber-porth, Blaen-porth, Troedyraur, Llandyfrïog (Vol i); Bron-gwyn, Betws Ifan, Penbryn, Llangrannog, Llandysiliogogo, Llangynllo, Llanllwchaearn, Llanfair Treflygen, Henllan, Llanfairorllwyn, Bangor and Llandysul Iscerdyn (vol. ii).
The books contain names numbered to 214 and 128 respectively, and are signed respectively by William J. Jones and John Davies, Poll Clerks, 9 February 1847.
The result of the poll, noted in Vol. i, was Phillips (238), Jones (0), Nugent (108).


Ref: RE/PC/1/8
Date(s): 1851-1877
Extent: 1 File
Scope and Content: Contagious Diseases (Animals)

Miscellaneous papers, including:
Letters, 1851-1875, mainly from the Privy Council Office.
'The London Gazette', 3 April 1866, mainly comprising cattle plague orders.
Return to the House of Commons of copies of Cattle Plague Orders in force, returns of markets in England and Wales licensed for the sale of fat cattle and store cattle, and returns of ports in the UK licensed for the quarantining of foreign cattle, 1867.
Unused foot-and-mouth report forms, [1870x1879] (three copies).
'Handbook of the laws and regulations relating to contagious and infectious diseases among animals in Great Britain - second series', 1872.
'New handbook of the laws and regulations relating to contagious and infectious diseases among animals in Great Britain', 1875.
'An act for preventing the introduction and spreading on insects destructive of crops', 1877 (three copies).


Ref: RE/PC/1/9
Date(s): 1857-1866
Extent: 1 File
Scope and Content: Police Returns to the Secretary of State

Police returns of Crimes Committed (Form 2), Offences for Trial (Form 3) and Offences Determined Summarily (Form 4) for Cardiganshire for the quarters ending 31 March, 30 June, 30 September and 31 December 1857.
Returns of the Police Establishment and Charges (Table 1); Class of Persons Apprehended and Proceeded Against (Table 2); Depredators, Offenders and Suspected Persons at Large (Table 3); Crimes Committed, Apprehensions and Commitments for Trial (Table 4); and Offences Determined Summarily (Table 5) for the years ending 29 September 1858-1866.


Ref: RE/PC/1/10
Date(s): 1862-1872
Extent: 1 File
Scope and Content: Treasury correspondence

Letters and related papers, including Schedules of Disallowances from the Account of Criminal Prosecutions for Cardiganshire, for the half-year to 30 June 1862, 31 December 1862, 30 June 1863, 30 June 1870, 31 December 1870.
Certificates relating to the expences of the examination of witnesses in the prosecution of Henry Jones on a charge of murder, and acquitted, 1868-1869.


[Ref: RE/PC/1/11
Date(s): 1865
Extent: 1 File
Scope and Content: Public Records Index

Index to the printed reports of Sir Francis Palgrave, K.H., Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, 1840-1861. Printed volume (HMSO, 1865). Compliments, addressed to the Clerk of the Peace for Cardiganshire, 1865, are pasted in.


Ref: RE/PC/1/12
Date(s): 1866-1870
Extent: 1 File
Scope and Content: Printed Orders in Council

Mainly relating to the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Acts.


Ref: RE/PC/1/13
Date(s): 18 February 1868
Extent: 1 File
Scope and Content: Cattle Market Licences

Sealed Privy Council Licences, issued under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Acts and the Consolidated Cattle Plague Order of August 1867, for cattle markets at Aberaeron, Aberystwyth, Capel Cynon, Cardigan, Lampeter, Llanbadarn Fawr, Llandysul, Llanddewibrefi, Llangrannog, Llangwyryfon, Llannarth, Llanrhystud, Llanwyddalus ( Dihewyd parish), New Quay, Pontrhydfendegaid, Tal-y-bont, Tregaron and Trehedyn Emlyn.


Ref: RE/PC/1/14
Date(s): 1871-1882
Extent: 1 File
Scope and Content: Printed Orders in Council

Mainly relating to the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Acts.


Ref: RE/PC/1/15
Date(s): 1877-1878
Extent: 1 File
Scope and Content: Petty Sessional Clerks' Salaries

Letters and associaited papers relating to proposed salaries for Clerks of the Petty Sessional Divisions of Lower Troedyraur, Penrhiwpal, Llandysul, Lower Genau'r-glyn, Upper Ilar, Aberaeron & Lower Ilar, Upper Moeddyn, Pennardd and Upper Genau'r-glyn, in lieu of fees.


Ref: RE/PC/1/16
Date(s): 1878-1883
Extent: 1 File
Scope and Content: Sheep-scab Returns

Sheep-scab Returns for farms in Bow Street, Caron, Llanbadarn Fawr, Llanfihangel Genau'r-glyn, Llangynfelyn, Llannarth, Ysbyty Ystwyth, Ysgubor-y-coed and Ystradmeurig.


Ref: RE/PC/1/17
Date(s): 1879
Extent: 1 File
Scope and Content: Manchester & Milford Railway

Manchester & Milford Railway notices, relinquishing the branch line authorised by 'The Manchester and Milford Railway (Devils Bridge Branch) Act 1873'. Most of the notices are unused, but four are made out to: Thomas Morgan (No. 14), John Dudlyke (No. 18, two copies), and Anne Bonner (No. 38).


Ref: RE/PC/1/18
Date(s): 1880-1881
Extent: 1 File
Scope and Content: Tenders for printing official documents

Tenders and related papers for printing electoral registers, and County Roads Board and Quarter Sessions advertisements etc.: including from the Cambrian News, the Observer, John Morgan (late J. Cox), and Philip Williams, all of Aberystwyth; South Wales Daily News & Cardiff Times, Cardiff, and the Welshman, Carmarthen.


Ref: RE/PC/1/19
Date(s): 1887-1889
Extent: 1 File
Scope and Content: Trefechan Bridge Minute Book

Minute Book of the committee appointed to superintend the re-erection of the Aberystwyth bridge.


Acts of Parliament

Ref: RE/PC/2
Date(s): 1758-1896
Level: Sub-Series
Extent: 20 Vol./ Files
Scope and Content: Acts of Parliament

Mainly printed volumes of Statutes; several stamped as for public service, or endorsed 'County of Cardigan' or similar. Also included are bundles of individual Acts of Parliament.


Ref: RE/PC/2/1
Date(s): 1758
Extent: 1 Vol.
Scope and Content: The Statutes at Large: Vol. 2, 24 Hen. VIII-Chas. II.


Ref: RE/PC/2/2
Date(s): 1758
Extent: 1 Vol.
Scope and Content: The Statutes at Large: Vol. 3, 1 Jas II-10 Anne.


Ref: RE/PC/2/3
Date(s): 1758
Extent: 1 Vol.
Scope and Content: The Statutes at Large: Vol. 4, 12 Anne-6 Geo. II


Ref: RE/PC/2/4
Date(s): 1758
Extent: 1 Vol.
Scope and Content: The Statutes at Large: Vol. 5, 7-23 Geo. II


Ref: RE/PC/2/5
Date(s): 1758
Extent: 1 Vol.
Scope and Content: The Statutes at Large: Vol. 6, 24-30 Geo. II

With index.


Ref: RE/PC/2/6
Date(s): 1769
Extent: 1 Vol.
Scope and Content: The Statutes at Large: Vvol. 7, 31 Geo. II-4 Geo. III


Ref: RE/PC/2/7
Date(s): 1771
Extent: 1 Vol.
Scope and Content: The Statutes at Large: Vol. 8, 5-10 Geo. III

With index


Ref: RE/PC/2/8
Date(s): 1773
Extent: 1 Vol.
Scope and Content: The Statutes at Large: Vol. 9, 11-13 Geo. III

With index


Ref: RE/PC/2/9
Date(s): 1776
Extent: 1 Vol.
Scope and Content: The Statutes at Large: Vol. 12, 13-16 Geo. III

With index


Ref: RE/PC/2/10
Date(s): 1780
Extent: 1 Vol.
Scope and Content: The Statutes at Large: Vol. 13, 17-20 Geo. III
With index

Condition: The front and back covers are loose.


Ref: RE/PC/2/11
Date(s): 1786
Extent: 1 Vol.
Scope and Content: The Statutes at Large: Vol. 14, 21-25 Geo. III

With index


Ref: RE/PC/2/12
Date(s): 1823-1853
Extent: 1 File
Scope and Content: Acts of Parliament

Comprising:
Act to explain and amend an Act, passed in the third year of his present majesty, to amend the general laws now in being for regulating turnpike roads in that part of Great Britain called England, 1823.
Act to reduce the duties on newspapers, and to amend the laws relating to the duties on newspapers and advertisements, 1836
Chaytor's Estate Act 1853.
Duke of Cleveland's Harte Estate Act 1853.
Table of public and private Acts published by the Queen's printer, 1853.


Ref: RE/PC/2/13
Date(s): 1847
Extent: 1 Vol.
Scope and Content: Collection of the Public General Statutes, 10 & 11 Vic.


Ref: RE/PC/2/14
Date(s): 1852-1896
Extent: 1 File
Scope and Content: Acts of Parliament

Comprising:
'Copies of so much of the standing orders of the House of Lords on private bills as relates to the deposit of plans...', Nov. 1852
Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation Act 1885.
Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (Poor Law) Act 1885.
Eastern & Midlands Railway Act 1885.
Drainage & Improvement of Lands Supplemental (Ireland) Act 1885.
Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (Poor Law) (No. 2) Act 1885. Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (Poor Law) (No. 3) Act 1885. Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (Poor Law) (No. 5) Act 1885. Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (Poor Law) (No. 6) Act 1885. Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (Poor Law) (No. 7) Act 1885. Local Government Board (Ireland) Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 1) Act 1885. Cawood Wistow & Selby Light Railway Act 1896.
Newport Godshill & St Lawrence Railway Act 1896.
Leeds Hydraulic Power Act 1896.
Padiham Urban District Council (Water) Act 1896
Most of the Acts are stamped 'Supplied for the Public Service'.


Ref: RE/PC/2/15
Date(s): 1869
Extent: 1 Vol.
Scope and Content: Collection of the Public General Statutes, 32 & 33 Vic.


Ref: RE/PC/2/16
Date(s): 1870
Extent: 1 Vol.
Scope and Content: The Public General Acts, 33 & 34 Vic.


Ref: RE/PC/2/17
Date(s): 1871
Extent: 1 Vol.
Scope and Content: The Public General Acts, 34 & 35 Vic.


Ref: RE/PC/2/18
Date(s): 1873
Extent: 1 Vol.
Scope and Content: The Public General Acts, 36 & 37 Vic.
Condition: The front cover is lost.


Ref: RE/PC/2/19
Date(s): 1877
Extent: 1 Vol.
Scope and Content: The Public General Acts, 40 & 41 Vic.


Ref: RE/PC/2/20
Date(s): 1892
Extent: 1 File
Scope and Content: Acts of Parliament

Copies of Acts of Parliament, 55 & 56 Vic., c.169-195, comprising:
Lanarkshire (Middle Ward District) Water Act 1892.
Dumbarton and Balloch Joint Line &c. Act 1892.
Milford Docks Act 1892.
Kingstown and Kingsbridge Junction Railway (Extension of Time) Act 1892.
Birmingham Corporation Water Act 1892.
Exmouth and District Water Act 1892.
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (Steam Vessels) Act 1892.
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (Various Powers) Act 1892.
Leith Harbour and Docks Act 1892.
London and North Western Railway (Heaton Lodge and Wortley Railways) Act 1892. Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway Act 1892.
Southampton Docks Act 1892.
Rotherham Blythe and Sutton Railway Act 1892.
Lostwithiel and Fowey Railway Act 1892.
St. Bartholomew's (Bristol) Church &c. Sale Act 1892.
Edinburgh Street Tramways Act 1892.
Derry City and County Railway Act 1892.
Glasgow and South Western Railway (Additional Powers) Act 1892.
Pontypridd Burial Board Act 1892.
Regent's Canal City and Docks Railway Act 1892.
Uttoxeter Water Act 1892.
Rhymney Valley Gas and Water Act 1892.
Mersey and Irwell Joint Committee Act 1892.
Bexhill Water and Gas Act 1892.
Eastbourne Improvement Act 1885 Amendment Act 1892.
Tramways Orders Confirmation Act, 1892.
Glasgow &c. Order Confirmation Act, 1892.