Minute Book of the Fenton Commissioners explaining the loss of the previous book

SoTCA SA-LG 59
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The Improvement Commissioners were the administrative body responsible for the administration of the town in the 19th century. For security they kept the minute books of their business at the local police station which was targeted by the Chartist rioters.

Transcript
SoTCA SA-LG 59

At a Monthly Meeting of the Commissioners at the Roe Buck Inn, Fenton the 6 September 1842

Present Felix Pratt Esq Chief Bailiff in the Chair
Mr Richard Pratt Mr Faraday
Mr Burn Mr W Pratt
Mr W Baker Mr Ward
Mr Cope Mr Edge
Mt Arnott

Resolve unanimously
That whereas a Mob riotously assembled at the Police Station house and offices on Monday the fifteenth day of August last broke into the same by force and then and there destroyed the book of record of the proceedings of the Commissioners and all the other books connected with their transactions as Commissioners from the commencement of their putting the act in force (except the book recording the qualification of the Commissioners) that a fresh set of books be immediately ordered to supply those destroyed