File contains a photocopy of a newspaper article from the Toronto Star, dated September 14, 1980 about the murder and subsequent trial of Percy Bell, who died 1954 in Belleville.
File contains a photocopy of the front page of “The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer” by Richard Burn, LL.D., 16th Edition, Four Volumes, printed London 1788. Two of the four volumes are in the Law Library of the Hastings Law Society.
File contains a letter dated 17-April-1929 from W.E. Wiggins, Inspector Colonization Roads Hastings County (Bancroft) to B.C. Donnan, County Crown Attorney, Belleville.
This file contains a photocopy from the original in the L & A Museum and Archive, a brief view of the Township laws on the office of Constable, dated 1835.
Correspondence and 'Acts of Parliament' relating to the operation of the Belleville Legal and Literary Society. The President of the society was J. Earl Halliwell.
File contains several newspaper clippings on miscellaneous topics including the operation of the Trenton court, and town infrastructure and administration.
File contains a printed poster advising municipal residents to vote for the reduction of licensed drinking places in various municipalities, including Belleville. Also present is a newspaper clipping announcing an upcoming talk entitled “The Man that Rum Makes,” by Dr. W.J. Fairfield on 21 November 1887, and a clipping about a horse theft in Sidney after a drinking episode by the perpetrator.
File contains a newspaper clipping dated 5 August 1958 concerning Roscoe Robson, former M.P. for East Hastings, who resigned his office to accept the position of Sheriff of Hastings County.
File contains a manuscript paper entitled “The Grand Trunk Railway Strike at Belleville, 1876-1877 : a brief outline,” presented by Gerald E. Boyce at a winter, 1965 meeting of the Belleville Rotary Club. The paper discusses the strike action by trainmen and the dispatch of police and companies of the local battalion to deal with strikers and their supporters.
File contains three original documents: a letter dated 8 November 1855 to Isiah Human; a motion from Meeting of Municipal Council of the County of Hastings circa. 1850; a letter to the Municipal Council of Hastings - all detailing an accident involving Thomas Smith and request for financial restitution to both Mr. Smith and Mr. Henry Fanning.
File contains a typescript translation of a letter dated 24 August 1899 from E. Zamora, a former Cuban official imprisoned in Madrid, seeking legal and monetary assistance.
File contains original note dated April 1880 from A.L. Colville, Attorney-at-law addressed to the sheriff in Belleville requesting a writ of summons be served on Ins. Phillips.
File contains a photocopied, typescript essay entitled “ The Report of the Commissioners on the removal of the Penitentiary from Kingston to the Marmora Iron Works...” by Nancy M. Dushaw, Carleton University, 1972. The undergraduate essay examines a government proposal to relocate the prison to Marmora and the reasons for the rejection of the plan.
File contains a photocopied printed edition of the Daily Intelligencer Extra, 30 May 1870, concerning the arrest of Fenian Society members in New York State.
