Catalogue description RECORDS OF THE MANCHESTER POLICE COMMISSIONERS

See also M9/62

A full description and assessment of the inception, development and conclusion in 1843 of the work of the Commissioners is to be found in Redford, A. History of Local Government in Manchester, volume. 1, p.191-374 and volume. 2, p.1-94. The library also possesses some of the printed reports of the several Committees of the Commissioners 1828 - 1842 352.042 M10, the general yearly reports of the Commissioners for 1834 -38, and 1843 352.042 M53, the printed estimates for 1838/9 and 1842/3 f942.7381 M180 1-4 together with the instructions and regulations for the Nuisance Department, 1838 352.042 M60, the regulations for the government of the Watch Department 1830, 352.042 M15, the Churchwardens' list of voters and persons eligible to serve as Commissioners for Manchester in 1836 P2804/2 and a list of Commissioners for the year Oct. 1842 - Oct. 1843 f942.7381 M180/9

Manchester Police Commission

These minute books were transferred from the Committee Clerk's Bookroom, Manchester Town Hall in 1959

The Commissioners were appointed by the Manchester and Salford Police Act 1792 32 George III, c.69 briefly described as for cleansing, lighting, watching, and regulating the streets, lanes, passages and places within the towns of Manchester and Salford .... and for other purposes therein mentioned. They functioned at first jointly for the 2 towns and there is a minute book preserved in Salford Town Hall covering the years 11 June 1792-18 Aug. 1819 of which a microfilm copy is in this library. Only the first meeting in this book is a joint meeting. Thereafter it consists of minutes of the Salford Commissioners only. The minute books of the Manchester Commissioners up to 27 Oct. 1797 are now lost and also volume. 3 of the surviving minute books covering the years July 1812 - Jan. 1819 has been missing since 1880