File contains original petition to incorporate Mill Point into an "Incorporated Village" 17 May1871, signed by Edward Wilkes Rathbun and 100 residents of the village. There are also petitions of protest from residents north of the York Road [Highway 2] who did not want to be part of the village. File also includes a plan of the proposed boundaries Mill Point (Map M440-1446).
The file contains a handwritten photocopy of Bye Law No. 91 dated 17-November-1858, to amend Bye Law No. 1 - to encourage Fire Companies to be formed in Belleville.
File contains a newspaper article from the Intelligencer, dated January 27, 1959 about the retirement of Dr. Harold M. Younghusband of Belleville from his position with Health of Animals Division, Federal Department of Agriculture for 44 years.
File contains original documentation for Alfred Fields Wood Esq. Warden of the County of Hastings including correspondence and Treasurers Tax Assessment for local towns.
This file contains a letter dated; December 9 1885. The letter is an expression of sympathy in regards to a serious accident that occurred, that involved a member of the Belleville Board of Trade.
File contains a manuscript certificate of reeve, dated 15 January 1866, confirming William H. Carpenter as duly elected reeve for the united townships of Tudor, Wollaston and Limerick Townships.
File contains several manuscript petitions by residents of Tudor and Lake Township for road clearances and the opening of roads in the townships. Also present are Hastings County Council resolutions approving surveys for roads in Tudor , Limerick and Cashel Townships in June, 1870.
File contains a manuscript signed petition from landholders in the Township of Tudor to the County Council of the County of Hastings seeking administrative separation from the Township of Madoc, whose council had responsibility for Tudor. Also present is a by-law issued by the County of Hastings Council in 1859 enacting the separation of Tudor Township from the Township of Madoc.