Catalogue

Bill book of Walter Scruton, Deputy Clerk of the Peace, June 1839 - February 1849

Bill book of money owed by the County to John Tiplady, Deputy Clerk of the Peace, December 1856 - December 1861

Bill book of money owed by the County to John Tiplady, Deputy Clerk of the Peace, September 1861 - January 1865

Fees book, June 1865 - February 1874 Notebook recording names of prisoners, costs and fees and names of attorneys and constables.

Deputy Clerk's correspondence, 1872 - 1875

Deputy Clerk's correspondence, 1877

Deputy Clerk's correspondence, January - March 1878

Deputy Clerk's correspondence, April - December 1878

Deputy Clerk's correspondence, January - May 1879

Deputy Clerk's correspondence, June - December 1879

Deputy Clerk's correspondence, January - February 1880

Copy letter book belonging to Ralph Simey, Clerk of the Peace, January 1880 - April 1881

Letters from Overseers of the Poor, concerning returns of jury lists, 1903

Copy letter book belonging to Ralph Simey, Clerk of the Peace, 1885 - 1893

Table of fees, 1863 - 1864

Report of Committee of Quarter Sessions on salary payable to the Clerk of the Peace in lieu of fees, 1865

Report of Committee of Quarter Sessions on salary payable to the Clerk of the Peace in lieu of fees, 1880

Additional table of fees, January 1881

Report of Sub-Committee of Standing Joint Committee relating to the Clerk of the Peace's salary, May 1889

A report to the Standing Joint Committee on the salary of the Clerk of the Peace June 1889

Resolution of the Standing Joint Committee relating to the allowance made to the Clerk of the Peace and his clerks, October 1895

Declaration of Clerk of the Peace on appointment, December 1911

Order by Home Secretary relating to salary of Clerk of the Peace and of the County Council, February 1912

Order of Home Secretary relating to salary of the Clerk of the Peace, June 1914

Order of the Home Secretary concerning salary, February 1918

Order of the Home Secretary concerning salary, August 1919

Order of the Home Secretary concerning salary, June 1930

Order of the Home Secretary concerning salary, February 1932

Table of fees, 1948

Justices Clerks' fees, 1881

Justices Clerks' fees, 1883

Justices Clerks' fees, 1897

Justices Clerks' fees, 1897

Justices Clerks' fees, 1902

Salaries for clerks of all divisions ranging from £100 to £800 p.a., March 1882

Salaries for clerks: Seaham Harbour, £160, August 1886

Salaries for clerks: Lanchester & Consett, £600, West Hartlepool, £450 and Seaham Harbour, £180, 1891

Salaries for clerks: Sunderland £400, July 1891

Salaries for clerks: West Hartlepool, £100, August 1894

Salaries for clerks: Houghton-le-Spring £450, February 1897

Salaries for clerks: Durham, £310, February 1897

Salaries for clerks: Chester-le-Street £325, and appointment of E.J. Pearce as Clerk, August and September 1897

Salaries for clerks: Jarrow £450, October 1897

Appointment of J.A.Ornsby as Clerk of Chester West Petty Sessional Division, August 1897

Salaries for clerks: Gateshead, £650, February 1898

Salaries for clerks: South Shields, £350, December 1903

Salaries for clerks: Lanchester and Consett, £700, November 1906

Salaries for clerks: Barnard Castle and Staindrop, £180, Sunderland, £470, August 1907

Salaries for clerks: West Hartlepool, £75, Darlington, £100, May 1909

Salaries for clerks: Durham, £725, Bishop Auckland £825, May 1913

Salaries for clerks: Chester-le-Street, £375, Darlington, £117, Seaham Harbour, £260, December 1913

Orders and memoranda including: Orders for procedure issued by Quarter Sessions; circulars from the Home Office, including Crutchley's 'Railway and Station map of Durham County', c.1880; 'Rules for the Practice of Quarter Sessions', 1828; standing orders of Durham quarter sessions, 1870; fees for justices' clerks, 1852, 1853, 1863, 1871, 1887; newspaper cuttings concerning the clerk of the peace's fees and costs of prosecutions; circulars from the Home Office on costs, 1853, 1857, and allowances for prosecutors and witnesses; letters from the Home Office on allowances for gaol warders; prosecution costs 1865 - 1875; rules for justices' clerks, c.1850 - 1895

Standing orders for Quarter Sessions, 1870

Rules for procedure under the Licensing Acts, (1828 - 1904), December 1905 - September 1910

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Orders of the Local Government Board for the amalgamation of divided parishes (under the Divided Parishes and Poor Law Amendment Act, 1876 and Poor Law Amendment Act, 1879), 1881 - 1886, relating to the following parishes: 1881: Brancepeth, Brandon, Byshottles, Chester-le-Street, Harraton, Helmington Row, Kimblesworth, Pitting ton, West Rainton, Stockley,Great and Little Usworth, Willington 1883: Great Aycliffe, Barforth, Coatham Mundeville, Coatsay Moor, Cockfield, High and Low Coniscliffe, Egglestone, Heighington, Hoiwick, Hunderthwaite, Langley Dale, Marwood, Middleton, Newbiggin, Barnard Castle Romaldkirk, Stainton, Streatlam, Woodham, Woodland, Wycliffe 1884: Bedburn South, Binchester, Bishop Auckland, Byers Green, Chester-le-Street, Counden, Counden Grange, Edmondsley, Escomb, Hamsterley, Heighington, Helmington, Hunwick, Kimblesworth, Lanchester, Lynesack, Middridge, Middridge Grange, Newton Cap, Pelton, Plawsworth, Pollards Lands, School Aycliffe, Tanfield, Urpeth, Witton Gilbert 1885: Cassop, Elvet, Ferryhill, Framwellgate, Herrington, East and West Offerton, Quarrington, Tudhoe 1886: Aislaby, Benfieldside, Billingside, Butsfield, Cassop, Collierley and Pontop, Conside and Knitsley, Cornsay, Ebchester, Edmondsley, Fulwell, Greencroft, Harton, Healeyfield, Hedley Woodside, Hedley, Hedworth, Iveston, Jarrow, Kyo Laws, Lanchester, Langley, Medomsley, Monkton, Monkwearmouth, Muggleswick, Newsham, Norton, Satley, Southwick, Stockton, Tanfield, Thornaby, Whitburn, Witton Gilbert

Papers relating to a dispute over rooms in the Exchequer buildings between the Justices, the Bishopric and the University following the Palatinate Act, 1836 (6 & 7 William IV c.19) Including opinions of counsel, briefs, list of records, list of occupiers of rooms in the Exchequer building, report of a committee of Quarter Sessions, correspondence, copies of bill and amendments, reports of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and a transcript of proceedings of the special case in the Queen's Bench, 1839 - 1843

Reports of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records and correspondence concerning the transfer of the records of the Palatinate to the Public Record Office and a report of a county committee on the records, 1867 - 1869

Report on the state of the records in the custody of the clerk of the peace by the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, 1867; report of the Royal Commission on the Public Records, 1910, including analyses of returns made by clerks of all counties, 1800, 1833 and 1902; schedule of classes of records which may be destroyed; list of records in the clerk of the peace's office, made between 1900 and 1915; correspondence, 1867 - 1916

16 May 1883 (1) Ralph Simey of the City of Durham, Clerk of the Peace (2) Abigail Holmes, of Cotherstone, Yorkshire, widow Memorandum of agreement concerning lease for one year from (1) to (2) of Poultry House and Rabbit House near the north arch of Elvet Bridge

Agreement for use of Church Institute, Stanley, as petty sessions court, 23 November 1897

Agreement for the use of Sunderland Court Buildings by the county justices, 2 February 1909

Seal of the Clerk of the Peace

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List of documents taken from the general office, c.1920

Returns to the Home Office relating to appeals to Quarter Sessions, legal aid and compensation for the non-renewal of licences for public houses etc, 1948 - 1967