Catalogue description WEST RIDING QUARTER SESSIONS

This record is held by West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

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Reference: Q
Title: WEST RIDING QUARTER SESSIONS
Description: QJ Justices of the Peace and oaths of office: Commissions of the Peace; Oaths of Office; Magistrates Undertakings. QS The Court in session: Sessions rolls; Order books; Indictment books. QC Committees: 1 Visiting justices of the West Riding Pauper lunatic Asylum; 2 Visiting justices of the West Riding House of Correction; 3 Finance Committee; 4 Lock-up Committee; 5 Visitors of private asylums; 6 Militia Depots Committee; 7 Police Committee; 8 Reformatory and Industrial Schools Committee; 9 Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act Executive Committee; 10 County Rate Committee; 11 Licensing Committee; 12 Records Committee; 13 Finance and General Purposes Committee; 14 Magistrates Courts Committee. QD Departments: QD1 Clerk of the Peace; QD2 Treasurer; QD3 Surveyor; QD4 Solicitor; QD5 Registry of Deeds. QT Transferred records: Liberty of Ripon; Liberty of Wistow, Cawood and Otley.
Date: 1637-1971
Held by: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield, not available at The National Archives
Former reference in its original department: A000006
Language: English
Creator:

West Riding Quarter Sessions, 1637-1971
Subjects:
  • Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire
  • Administration of justice
  • Local government
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