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This description is for part of a collection of some 4,400 vertical files of materials gathered by the Hastings County Historical Society. They cover a wide range of subjects and were received from a variety of different sources, not always recorded.

The collection includes original materials, newspaper clippings, secondary histories and copies.

File contains affidavits signed in the 1870s for various individuals assuming the office of justice of the peace in Hungerford Township, Bangor Township, Madoc, Belleville, and Deseronto, Marmora Township, and Rawdon, Sidney and Tyendinaga Townships.

File contains affidavits signed in the period 1880 to 1889 for various individuals assuming the office of Justice of the Peace in Hungerford, Wollaston, Tyendinaga, Sidney, Rawdon, Huntingdon, and Faraday Townships, and the villages of Stirling, Bridgewater and Madoc.

File contains affidavits signed in the period 1890 to 1899 for various individuals assuming the office of Justice of the Peace in Sidney, Rawdon. Thurlow, Hungerford, Faraday and Elzevir Townships, and in Belleville, Trenton, Bridgewater and Marmora.

File contains affidavits signed in the period 1900 to ca. 1905 for various individuals assuming the office of Justice of the Peace in Belleville, Trenton, Madoc, Elzevir Township, Thurlow Township, Rawdon Township and Tudor Township.

File contains mimeographed typescript, and manuscript lists of individuals holding the office of justice of the peace in various townships and municipalities in Hastings County from 1840-1903.

File contains manuscript commissions of office issued by the Province of Canada for Justices of the Peace in the County of Hastings, 1840, 1853 and 1857.

File contains manuscript commissions of office issued by the Province of Canada for Justices of the Peace in the County of Hastings, 1857, 1859 and 1863.

File contains manuscript commissions of office issued by the Province of Canada, and subsequently the Province of Ontario, for Justices of the Peace in the County of Hastings, 1865, 1869, 1876-1879, 1881-1883.

File contains manuscript commissions of office issued by the Province of Ontario, for Justices of the Peace in the County of Hastings, for the years 1881-1883, 1889-1891.

File contains manuscript commissions of office issued by the Province of Ontario, for Justices of the Peace in the County of Hastings, for the years 1892-1893, 1895,, 1898-1899, and 1901.

File contains manuscript commissions of office issued by the Province of Ontario, for Justices of the Peace in the County of Hastings, for the years 1902-1903

File contains a printed booklet of by-laws passed by the Corporation of the County of Hastings, 1851-1883. Also contains a list of bylaws superseded by statute, repealed or consolidated ca. 1850-1882.

File contains two manuscript resolutions of the Municipal Council of the County of Hastings concerning the donation of funds to the relief committee in support of victims of the Ottawa fire. Also contains a printed letter from Ira Morgan, Warden of the County of Carleton dated September 20, 1870 requesting support for fire victims in Ottawa and Carleton County.

File contains a manuscript resolution of the Municipal Council of the County of Hastings approving financial aid to the victims of the great Chicago fire of 1871.

File contains a manuscript resolution of the Municipal Council of the County of Hastings approving a financial contribution toward the erection of a monument honouring Tecumseh, Shawnee war hero of the War of 1812. Also contains a printed subscription list of the Tecumseh Memorial Fund Committee.

File contains a newspaper clipping listing the members of the Hastings County Council by township in January, 1884.

File contains typescript biographical sketches of new members of the Hastings County Council ca. 1890s.

File contains a news magazine article regarding the history of taverns and drinking habits in Upper Canada, Lower Canada and Ontario in the period ca. 1818-1875.

File contains a printed booklet of County of Hastings revenue from various sources and expenditures on roads, salaries, schools, jails and courthouses for the fiscal year 1893.