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Z C - Chester City Council - 1835-2009

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

1 - An Act to enable the mayor and citizens of the city of Chester to recover and preserve the navigation upon the river Dee - 1700

2 - An Act to recover and preserve the navigation of the river Dee in the county palatine of Chester - 1885

3 - An Act for incorporating the undertakers of the navigation of the River Dee - 1885

4 - An Act for explaining and amending an Act passed in the sixth year of his present majesty's reign, and other Acts - 1885

5 - An Act for confirming an agreement entered into between the Company of proprietors of the undertaking for recovering and preserving the navigation of the river Dee and Sir John Glynne, baronet, Lord of the manor of Hawarden, and several freeholders and occupiers of land within the said manor - 1882

6 - An Act for better regulating the poor; maintaining a nightly watch; lighting, paving and cleansing the streets, rows and passages; providing fire engines and firemen; and regulating the hackney coachmen, chairmen, carmen and porters within the city of Chester - 1762

7 - Photocopy of an Act for erecting a lighthouse and landmarks in or near the port of Chester - 1776

8 - An Act to enable his majesty to licence a theatre in the city of Chester. - 1777

9 - An Act for confirming an agreement entered into between the Company of proprietors of the undertaking for recovering and preserving the navigation of the river Dee and certain lords of manors and other persons intitled to right of common upon the wastes and commons and the old common salt marshes lying on the south side of the said river, below or to the north-east of Greenfield Gate in the county of Flint and an award made in consequence thereof. Printed 1791 - 1791

10 - An Act for carrying into execution an agreement entered into by William Egerton - 1796

11 - An Act to amend, alter and enlarge the powers of an Act passed in the second year of the reign of his present majesty - 27 May 1803

12 - An Act for erecting an additional bridge over the river Dee in the city of Chester - 10 Jun 1825

13 - An Act for better supplying the inhabitants of the city of Chester with water - 26 May 1826

14 - An Act for more effectually repairing and maintaining the road from the city of Chester through Tarvin to the township of Delamere and from Tarvin to Duddon smithy all in the county of Chester with the several branches thereof - 13 April 1829

15 - An Act for extending the time for completing the additional bridge over the river Dee in the city of Chester - 23 May 1832

16 - An Act for making a railway from the city of Chester to join 'The Grand Junction Railway' near Crewe Hall in the county of Chester to be called 'The Chester and Crewe Railway' - 30 Jun 1837

17 - An Act for making a railway from the city of Chester to Birkenhead - 12 Jul 1837

18 - An Act to amend the Act relating to the Chester and Birkenhead Railway and to raise a further sum of money for the purposes of the said undertaking - 23 Mar 1840

19 - An Act for the better paving, lighting and improving the borough of Chester and for establishing new market places therein - 30 Jun 1845

20 - An Act to authorise the Chester and Birkenhead Railway Company to extend the said railway from Grange Lane to Bridge End all in Birkenhead; and to amend the Acts relating to the said railway - 21 Jul 1845

21 - An Act for making a railway from the Chester and Birkenhead Railway to the Manchester and Birmingham Railway with branches therefrom, to be called 'The Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Railway' - 26 Jun 1846

22 - An Act to incorporate the Chester and Birkenhead Railway with the Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Railway - 22 Jul 1847

23 - An Act enabling the Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Railway Company to make a deviation in the Chester branch of their railway and for other purposes - 22 Jul 1847

24 - An Act for establishing a general cemetery for the internment of the dead in the parish of Saint Mary-on-the-Hill in the city of Chester - 22 Jul 1848

25 - An Act for the restoration of the Standard in the river Dee and for granting further powers to the River Dee Company - 24 Jul 1851

26 - An Act to consolidate into one Act and to amend the provisions of several Acts relating to the Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Railway Company; to define the undertaking of the company and for other purposes - 1 Jul 1852

27 - An Act for making a turnpike road from Chester by Farndon to Worthenbury with a branch therefrom to the village of Farndon - 3 Jul 1854

28 - An Act to make further provision for supplying with water the city of Chester and suburbs thereof - 26 Jun 1857

29 - An Act to incorporate the Chester United Gas Company and to confer upon them further powers for the supply of gas to the city and borough of Chester and the suburbs thereof - 11 May 1858

30 - An Act to authorise the Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the borough and city of Chester and county of the same city and the Portmote and Pentice Courts for the city of Chester to be held at the castle of Chester and to confer additional powers upon the sheriff of the county of Chester in exoneration of the Sheriff of the city of Chester - 15 Jul 1867

31 - An Act for enabling the Company of proprietors of the undertaking for recovering and preserving the navigation of the river Dee to raise further monies; and for other purposes - 29 May 1868

32 - An Act for granting further powers to the Chester Waterworks Company - 30 Jun 1874

33 - An Act for incorporating Chester Tramways Company and for empowering them to construct tramways in the city of Chester and for other purposes - 22 Jul 1878

34 - An Act to empower Chester Cemetery Company to enlarge their cemetery and to confer further powers upon them in relation to their undertaking - 1879

35 - An Act to authorise the Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company to construct a branch railway from the railway of the Cheshire Lines Committee at Chester to Connah's Quay and for other purposes - 28 Jul 1884

36 - An Act to consolidate the city of Chester into one parish; make improved provision for the levying of rates; provide for the issue of Corporation stock; make provision as to markets and fairs; for freeing the Dee bridges of tolls; and for the improvement, government and health of the city; to amend the improvement Act; and for other purposes - 7 Aug 1884

37 - An Act for conferring further powers upon the Great Western Railway Company in connexion with their own and other undertakings and upon them and other companies in connexion with undertakings in which they are jointly interested; for vesting in the Great Western Railway Company the undertaking of the Faringdon Railway Company; for authorising and confirming agreements with other companies and with the Corporation of Chester and for other purposes - 25 Jun 1886

38 - An Act for the conservancy and improvement of the River Dee - 12 Aug 1889

39 - Chester Pilotage District, byelaws for the regulation of pilots made by the trustees acting in pursuance of 16 George III Cap. LXI confirmed by Order of Her Majesty in Council 28 Nov. 1887 - 1887-1889

40 - An Act to confirm certain provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 and 1888 relating to Burnley, Bury, Chester, Fleetwood, Lancaster and Salford - 4 Aug 1890

41 - An Act for empowering the London and North Western Railway Company and the Great Western Railway Company to widen portions of their existing railways in the county of Chester and city of Chester and for other purposes - 27 Jul 1893

42 - An Act to authorise the construction of a bridge over the river Dee at Queen's Ferry in the county of Flint - 17 Aug 1894

43 - An Act to confirm certain provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the borough of Ashton-under-Lyne and the urban district of Dukinfield and to the city of Chester - 25 Jul 1898

44 - An Act to confer powers on the Corporation of Chester to reconstruct existing tramways in the city of Chester to construct additional tramways in and adjacent to the city to work tramways and for other purposes - 9 Aug 1901

45 - An Act to confirm certain provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to Birkenhead, Bradford Yorkshire, Chester, Derby, Leek, Ossett and Plymouth - 30 Jun 1905

46 - An Act as amended in committee for empowering the Corporation of the County Borough of Birkenhead to obtain a supply of water from the rivers Alwen and Brenig in the county of Denbigh and for other purposes - 1907

47 - An Act to confirm certain provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to Chester, Chorley, Fenton, Hanwell, Rochford Rural, Scunthorpe and Thornton Joint Hospital District - 28 Aug 1907

48 - An Act 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 - 18 Aug 1911

49 - An Act for conferring further powers upon the Great Western Railway Company in respect of their own undertaking - 31 Jul 1914

50 - An Act to make new provisions as to the charges to be made by the Chester United Gas Company and as to the application of the profits of the company and for other purposes - 4 Aug 1922

51 - An Act to confirm certain provisional Orders of the Ministry of Health relating to Chester, Orsett Joint Hospital Board, Wallasey and Wolverhampton - 4 Aug 1922

52 - An Act for conferring further powers upon the Great Western Railway and for other purposes - 1 Aug 1924

53 - An Act to confirm certain provisional Orders of the Minister of Health relating to Chester, Leyton, Nantwich, Scarborough, Spalding and Wimbledon - 4 Aug 1926

54 - An Act for conferring further powers upon the Great Western Railway Company; and for other purposes. Refers to land in the city of Chester - 1926

55 - An Act to authorise the Corporation of Chester to construct street works and to provide and work omnibuses - 10 May 1929

56 - An Act 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 - 5 April 1930

57 - An Act to confirm a provisional Order of the Minister of Health relating to the river Dee - 12 Jul 1932

58 - An Act to authorise the transfer of the undertaking of the Chester General Cemetery Company - 12 Jul 1932

59 - An Act to authorise the supply of water from the Shropshire Union Canal and for other purposes - 21 Dec 1944

LD - Local Bills - 1762-1951

LE - Commissions of Inquiry - 1850-1952

LU - Corporation Lawsuits - 1558-1929

N - Byelaws

U - Tape recordings

Z - Council manuscripts