File contains an 1897 petition prohibiting the sale of liquor “in any tavern, inn, or other house or place of public entertainment” in Elzevir & Grimsthrope.

File contains various documents related to surveyor J. W. Evans, including a subpoena issued in 1921, newspaper clippings, and a price list of metals from the Belleville Assay Office.

File contains newspaper clippings from 1930, about Judge John A. Forin of Belleville.

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 newspaper articles about Halloween in Belleville including: “Hooliganism” at Albert College, teenagers arrested for disobeying police officers, and money being raised for UNICEF.

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 a report by a committee investigation the conduct of a Hastings County Clerk in regards to the Farmer's Union Road Company Report. The committee concluded there was no reason to question the clerk's actions.

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, 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 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 Ontario, for Justices of the Peace in the County of Hastings, for the years 1881-1883, 1889-1891.