Surviving files of the Truro Joint Stock Company Registry relating to dissolved Cornish and Devonshire mining companies within the jurisdiction of the former Stannary Court.
There are, in the case of some companies, either one or two additional types of files. In July 1881 the Assistant Registrar in Truro started eliciting from companies newly registering, a second copy of the memorandum of association and of (if any) the articles of association. This second set was sent to the London registry which put them on files for public inspection there.
This arrangement was further developed by the Stannaries Act, 1887, which provided that with effect from 1 December 1887, companies registered at Truro should provide a duplicate copy not only of the memorandum and articles of association on initial registration but of all subsequent returns.
As a result the London Registry opened and maintained its own set of files for these duplicate copies in respect of 84 companies registered at Truro. Although, strictly speaking, they were London registry files, these 'duplicates' files were included in this series.
The Stannaries Act, 1887 had reciprocal effect. It enacted that the Truro Registry should hold files of duplicate returns in the case of companies which were mining or quarrying in Devon/Cornwall but were registered in London (or Edinburgh). When the Truro registry was closed the file covers were not preserved but the contents were put on the main London (or Edinburgh) company registration files.
In the case of 18 companies there is also a third type of file. The companies Winding Up Act 1890 provided for the return to the Register of Companies of Liquidators Returns in a prescribed form. Instead of putting these on the main file the Assistant Registrar in Truro opened separate files.
There is in addition an omnibus file with miscellaneous liquidator's affidavits for 16 companies in respect of which an individual file for liquidators' returns was not opened.
The companies registered in Truro were defunct by 1914, with the exception of the Bodelva China Clay Company Limited which became finally dissolved in 1933.
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