Chester-le-Street Petty Sessional Division
Reference: PS/CS Catalogue Title: Chester-le-Street Petty Sessional Division Area: Catalogue Category: Public Records Description: Adoptions, Special Sessions, court notebooks, Justices' Clerks, absconders, fines, warrants, pardons
Covering Dates: 1884-1956
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- Chester-le-Street Petty Sessional Division
- Chester le Street Petty Sessions (Ref: PS/CS)
- Absconders (Ref: PS/CS)
- Adoptions (Ref: PS/CS)
- Registers of adoptions (Ref: PS/CS)
- Clerk to the Justices (Ref: PS/CS)
- Elections (Ref: PS/CS)
- Letter books (Ref: PS/CS)
- Salaries (Ref: PS/CS)
- Court note books (Ref: PS/CS)
- Fines and fees (Ref: PS/CS)
- Collecting officers' ledgers (Ref: PS/CS)
- Outstanding penalties (Ref: PS/CS)
- Registers of fines and fees (Ref: PS/CS)
- Remitted fees (Ref: PS/CS)
- Royal pardons (Ref: PS/CS)
- Special Sessions (Ref: PS/CS)
- Justices' declarations (Ref: PS/CS)
- Special Sessions minutes (Ref: PS/CS)
- Warrants and summonses (Ref: PS/CS)
Catalogue Description
Chester Ward Middle Division, later Chester-le-Street DivisionCatalogue Contents
Chester le Street Petty Sessions (Ref: PS/CS)Adoptions (Ref: PS/CS)Registers of adoptions (Ref: PS/CS)Ref: PS/CS 33
Register of adoptions (under the Adoption of Children Act, 1926), 28 February 1927 - 20 March 1956
(1 volume)
Special Sessions (Ref: PS/CS)Special Sessions minutes (Ref: PS/CS)Ref: PS/CS 34Special Sessions minute book (includes General Annual Licensing Meeting minutes; minutes of the Quarterly Meeting of the Probation Committee; minutes of Special Sessions for granting cinema and theatre licences; minutes of the Juvenile Court Panel), 31 August 1898 - 16 January 1935
(1 volume)
Ref: PS/CS 35Special Sessions minute book (includes General Annual Licensing Meeting minutes; minutes of the Quarterly Meeting of the Probation Committee; minutes of Special Sessions for granting cinema and theatre licences; minutes of the Juvenile Court Panel), 6 February 1935 - 22 July 1953
(1 volume)
Justices' declarations (Ref: PS/CS)Ref: PS/CS 36Declarations of Justices for the holding of Special Sessions (compiling lists of jurors, granting licences, appeals v Poor Rate, Highways, Explosives Act etc.), 16 July 1884 - 11 February 1953
(1 volume)
Court note books (Ref: PS/CS)Ref: PS/CS 37Court note book (kept by the Justices in court), 6 May 1884 - 8 October 1919
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)
Ref: PS/CS 38Court note book (kept by the Justices in court), 3 December 1919 - 18 May 1927
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: PS/CS 39Police court note book (kept by the Justices in court), 12 January 1928 - 3 April 1946
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: PS/CS 40Police court note book (kept by the Justices in court), 26 June 1946 - June 1953
(1 volume, card bound)
Fines and fees (Ref: PS/CS)Registers of fines and fees (Ref: PS/CS)Ref: PS/CS 46Register of fines and fees, 3 December 1884 - 1929
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: PS/CS 47Register of fines and fees, 24 April 1889 - 7 September 1892
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: PS/CS 48Register of fines and fees, 28 September 1892 - 13 February 1895
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: PS/CS 49Register of fines and fees, 27 February 1895 - 29 September 1897
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: PS/CS 50Register of fines and fees, 13 October 1897 - 29 August 1900
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: PS/CS 51Register of fines and fees, 12 September 1900 - 20 May 1903
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: PS/CS 52Register of fines and fees, 3 June 1903 - 24 October 1906
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: PS/CS 53Register of fines and fees, 2 January 1907 - 18 May 1910
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: PS/CS 54Register of fines and fees, 1 June 1910 - 23 April 1913
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: PS/CS 55Register of fines and fees, 7 May 1913 - 29 December 1915
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: PS/CS 56Register of fines and fees, 12 January 1916 - 24 September 1919
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: PS/CS 57Register of fines and fees, 8 October 1919 - 30 May 1923
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: PS/CS 58Register of fines and fees, 13 June 1923 - 22 September 1926
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: PS/CS 59Register of fines and fees, 6 October 1926 - 29 May 1929
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: PS/CS 60Register of fines and fees, 8 June 1932 - 19 June 1935
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Collecting officers' ledgers (Ref: PS/CS)Ref: PS/CS 61Collecting officer's ledger, 2 May 1920 - 15 July 1936
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: PS/CS 62Collecting officer's ledger, 12 August 1936 - 24 January 1940
(1 volume, calf half-bound)
Ref: PS/CS 166Collecting officer's ledger, 10 April 1940 - 24 September 1947
(1 volume)
Ref: PS/CS 167Collecting officer's ledger, 1 August 1945 - 28 September 1950
(1 volume)
Ref: PS/CS 168Collecting officer's ledger, 6 October 1948 - 29 June 1953
(1 volume)
Ref: PS/CS 169Collecting officer's ledger, 4 July 1951 - 30 December 1955
(1 volume)
Ref: PS/CS 170Collecting officer's ledger, 6 February 1954 - 22 December 1955
(1 volume)
Ref: PS/CS 171Collecting officer's ledger, 3 March 1955 - 30 June 1959
(1 volume)
Ref: PS/CS 172Collecting officer's ledger, 21 May 1957 - 28 September 1959
(1 volume)
Ref: PS/CS 173Collecting officer's ledger, 1 January - 31 December 1959
(1 volume)
Outstanding penalties (Ref: PS/CS)Ref: PS/CS 63Outstanding penalties ledger, 6 July 1918 - 21 June 1933
(1 volume)
Remitted fees (Ref: PS/CS)Ref: PS/CS 175Remitted fees book, 9 October 1907 - 15 January 1981
(1 volume)
Clerk to the Justices (Ref: PS/CS)Letter books (Ref: PS/CS)Ref: PS/CS 64Letter book of the Clerk to the Justices, 1 February 1904 - 6 July 1907
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: PS/CS 65Letter book of the Clerk to the Justices, 26 October 1909 - 13 October 1911
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Salaries (Ref: PS/CS)Ref: PS/CS 69Papers re clerks' salaries, including questionnaires of the Standing Joint Committee of the Council of the Magistrates' Association and the Incorporated Justices Clerks' Society, 1931, 1936 - 1937, 1941 - 1942
(1 bundle)
Elections (Ref: PS/CS)Ref: PS/CS 70General Election, 1931, Chester-le-Street Parliamentary Division: papers of the Clerk to the Justices in his capacity as Deputy Acting Returning Officer, 1931
(1 bundle)
Warrants and summonses (Ref: PS/CS)Ref: PS/CS 66Warrants and summonses, February 1913
(1 bundle)
Royal pardons (Ref: PS/CS)Ref: PS/CS 67Royal pardon (signed by King George VI), 1945
(1 paper)
Absconders (Ref: PS/CS)Ref: PS/CS 174Register of absconders, 11 March 1891 - 8 February 1955
(1 volume)
