C10	Petty Sessions Book 1 vol.	1818 - 1897
	Title page inscribed ‘Minutes of Evidence taken before the Magistrates of the Town and Hundred of Oswestry in the County of Salop for Felonies Misdemeanors &c Done and Committed within the said Town and Hundred’. The first part of the volume contains copies of depositions, correspondence etc. concerning criminal cases, road and bridges, including lists of special constables appointed to deal with ‘riotous proceedings’, Jan. 1831. From 1835 the entries consist of minutes of Petty Sessions for the Hundred of Oswestry and the Borough of Oswestry, relating to administrative

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business under various Acts of Parliament (rates, highways etc.). Include appointments of parish constables, special constables, high constables; return of surveyors of highways, 1839; substitution of the British Schools for Court House during rebuilding of Guildhall, 1892. Pasted at end: printed table of fees and allowances to parochial constables, 31 Oct. 1842.