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Z C - Chester City Council - 12th century - 21st century

1 - Council

2 - Boards

3 - Committees

6 - Panels

7 - Working Parties

AB - Civic Miscellanea

C - Chester City boundaries - 1820-1972

CC - Chester City leases,agreements and related papers (D series)

E - Chester City title deeds and related papers - 17th - 20th centuries

F - Declaration Books - 1835-1961

G - Elections

LC - Local Acts of Parliament - 1700-1944

LD - Local Bills - 1762-1951

1 - Papers relating to Bill for Act for better regulating the poor; maintaining a nightly watch; lighting paving and cleansing the streets, rows and passages - 1762

2 - Petition from Chester Corporation to the House of Commons to bring in a Bill to make a canal to link the River Severn with the River Weaver and River Mersey - 1766

3 - Papers relating to Bill to prevent carrying away of stones and gravel from the sea and coasts between the River Voryd and the Ormes Head - 1774

4 - Papers relating to Bill for Act to amend, alter and enlarge the powers of an Act passed in the second year of the reign of his present majesty to maintain a nightly watch and lighting and cleansing the streets rows and passages within the city of Chester - 1803

5 - Petitions against the Chester Waterworks Bill - 1826

6 - Petition from the innkeepers and publicans of Chester to the House of Commons soliciting the enactment of a law by which publicans could be released from the control of the Brewers' Company - n.d. [early 19th century]

7 - Chester Improvement Bill - 1845

8 - Draft petition from the magistrates of Chester to the House of Commons asking for an Act to extend their powers relating to committing children between the ages of eight and sixteen years to reformatory institutions - n.d. [mid-19th century]

9 - Petition from Chester Corporation to the House of Commons - 1852

10 - Report of the Parliamentary Committee of Chester Corporation concerning the Chester Gas Bill and other Papers relating to the same - 1858

11 - Draft petition from Chester Corporation to the House of Commons against the Chester and West Cheshire Junction Railway Bill - 1865

12 - Papers relating to Chester Improvement Bill - 1884

13 - Papers relating to the Dee Conservancy and Improvement No. 1 Bill - 1885

14 - Volume containing Papers relating to Bill for empowering the London and North Western Railway Company and Great Western Railway Company to widen portions of their existing railways in the county of Chester and for other purposes - 1893

15 - Papers relating tolating to the Chester Corporation Bil - 1896

16 - Papers relating to Bill for Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Accrington and Church Outfall Sewerage District and to Acton, Chester (Rural), Reigate, Weymouth (Rural) and Wigan (Rural) - 1900

17 - Papers relating to Bill for empowering the Corporation of the County Boroug of Birkenhead to obtain a supply of water from the rivers Alwen and Brenig in the county of Denbigh and for other purposes - 1907

18 - Papers relating to Bill to authorise the Chester Waterworks Company to construct new works; to sanction and confirm the construction of existing works; to raise additional capital and to consolidate their existing capital and for other purposes - 1911

19 - Papers relating to a Bill to authorise the Corporation of Chester to acquire the undertaking of the Chester Waterworks Company - 1929

20 - Papers relating to Bill to authorise the Chester Waterworks Company to construct new works and to raise additional capital; to extend the limits of supply of the company and for other purposes - 1930

21 - Papers relating to Bill to extend the boundaries of the city and county of the city of Chester and for purposes incidental thereto - 1932

22 - Papers relating to the Bill to authorise the Wrexham and East Denbighshire Water Company to construct new waterworks; to alter the limits of the supply of the company; to enlarge their powers in relation to the raising of money and for other purposes - 1936

23 - Papers relating to the London Midland and Scottish Railway Bill - 1944

24 - Papers relating to River Dee and Clwyd River Board Bill 1951 - 1951

LE - Commissions of Inquiry - 1850-1952

LU - Corporation Lawsuits - 1558-1929

N - Byelaws

P - Publications

U - Tape recordings

Z - Council manuscripts