File contains 1835-1836 communications regarding the construction of a Registry Building for the County Clerk Office and a letter from 1857 discussing the leaky roof of Shire Hall.
File contains 1865 communications regarding the establishment of an industrial farm for the poor in Belleville. There is also a 1907 booklet “Rules and Regulations to Govern House of Refuge and Industrial Farm of the County of Hastings”.
File contains a letter from the Department of Agriculture and Public Works to the Warden of Hastings in 1870 regarding immigrants and farm labour, and a copy of the Constitution of the Peterbo Immigration Society.
File contains an 1862 letter regarding immigration and a notice from the Government Immigration Office discussing the increased number of immigrants from the United Kingdom and the United States, proposing farmers hire new immigrants for farm labour and on large farms build a log cabin for a family to stay in.
File contains a letter to the Belleville Warden in 1862 regarding a public meeting held the night before by the Mayor to discuss the suffering of the British Operatives and to think of a way to provide them with relief.
File contains petitions to the council regarding road repair in Thurlow and Tyendinaga, as well as a special committee report about road and bridge repair and financial information about the cost of repairing various roads.
File contains an 1862 petition to Hasting County for welfare for Sophia Crosbee of Trenton, she had five young children, her husband, Samual Crosbee Jr. died when he was thrown from his wagon on the Frankford and Stirling gravel road, which was in very poor condition.