Humber Conservancy Minute Book

Reference No:
C DIMA/1/2
Dates:
26 Feb 1857-25 Jul 1881
Description:

Contains minutes of meetings held at 6 Whitefriargate. The volume is not indexed and the minutes of individual committees do not run consecutively.

To oppose the South Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire Junction Railway Bill

To superintend the proposed dredging at the Corporation Pier in Hull

To enquire into the policy for making further grants of public money for the improvement and extension of Harbours of Refuge

To examine the two bills introduced into Parliament by the Hull Dock Company and the Hull West Dock Company

For opposing the Holderness Embankment and Reclamation Bill

To superintend the removal of wrecks

Parliamentary Committee minutes

Parliamentary Bill Committee minutes

Audit Committee minutes

Read's Island Committee minutes

Foreshores Committee minutes

Works Committee minutes

The Explosives Act Committee

The General Purposes Committee and The Sub Committee of The General Purposes Committee

The Wrecks Committee & The Wrecks Removal Committee

The Sub Committee for furnishing the new offices held at no. 6 Whitefriargate

The Standing Orders Committee

The Revisions of Lists of Shipowners of the Ports of Hull, Grimsby and Goole

Also includes a report on the Bill for making better provision for the drainage of the low grounds and Carrs (Known as the Beverley and Barnston Drainage District) and an account of the Humber Conservancy Commissioners for the year ending 31 Dec 1878 in respect of the foreshores demised to them by the leases granted pursuant to the Humber Conservancy Acts 1868 and 1871 in respect of Read's Island, a report on the Rivers Conservancy Bill [1881]

Format:
Archive Item
Extent:
1 volume
Access Conditions:
Access will be granted to any accredited reader
Repository:
Hull City Archives
Collection:
Records relating to The Humber Conservancy