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SOCIETIES AND MEETINGS

Catalogue reference: Q/D/S

What’s it about?

This record is about the SOCIETIES AND MEETINGS dating from 1794-1867.

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Q/D/S

Title

SOCIETIES AND MEETINGS

Date

1794-1867

Description
Description available at other catalogue level
Held by
Durham County Record Office
Language

English

Administrative / biographical background

Societies, clubs and meetings were controlled by several acts of Parliament. The Friendly Societies Act, 1793 and the Seditious Societies Act, 1799 and later acts required societies to be registered at Quarter Sessions.

Acts of 1817 and 1828 limited sums of money which might be deposited with savings banks and required copies of rules and any alterations to rules to be deposited with the Clerk of the Peace for public inspection. An act of 1836 required benefit building societies, provident and friendly societies to be registered.

In 1874 responsibility for records of friendly societies was given to the Registrar of Friendly Societies. Rules deposited with the Clerk of the Peace were, therefore, transferred to the Registrar, except for a few duplicate copies.

Rules and alterations were laid before the court of Quarter Sessions for approval and the order was usually noted in the Order Book. Copies of the rules were registered and filed by the clerk of the Peace.

A new numbered series was started in 1829 following the 1828 Act. No returns of freemasons' lodges survive for County Durham before 1916 although they were required under the Seditious Societies Act, 1799.

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SOCIETIES AND MEETINGS