Stromness Burgh

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Date:	1817-1982
Places:	Stromness, Orkney
Functions, occupations and activities:	Government, Scotland (local) > Burghs
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C191322 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O116707 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference
1	1817-1975: minutes, incl police commissioners, constitution of Stromness as a burgh of barony, and minutes of magistrates' elections, letter books, abstracts of accounts, ledgers, cash books (police commissioners), assessment rolls, committee for obtaining a separate parochial establishment for Stromness minute and letter book, local pensions committee minutes	Orkney Archive	S1, 4, 5, 10 - 13, 15, 22 - 25
2	1817-1863: bailie court diet book	Orkney Archive	S2
3	1966-1979: slaughterhouse account books	Orkney Archive	S9
4	1894-1962: Dean of Guild court records	Orkney Archive	S18
5	1919-1982: housing records	Orkney Archive	S19
6	1898-1959: records rel to water and sewage	Orkney Archive	S20
7	1930-1976: records rel to electricity supply	Orkney Archive	S21