ARUNDEL BOROUGH

PROCEEDINGS OF COUNCIL AND COMMITTEES

BO/AR/1. Minutes of Council meetings, 1836-1974; 1890-1928 (Urban Sanitary Authority)

BO/AR/3. Minutes of Committee meetings, 1896-1927

BO/AR/8. Byelaws and Sealed Orders, 1880-1924

BO/AR/9. Miscellaneous, including Attendance registers, 1868-1974; Registers of declarations and oaths, 1835-1934; Registers of councillors, 1910/11-1936/7

ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL DEPARTMENT

BO/AR/10. Conveyances: Title Deeds, 1896-1918

BO/AR/12. Agreements, Contacts, Mortgages, 1863-1916

BO/AR/14. Records of licences and statutory notices issued, 1871-1889

BO/AR/16. Plans deposited for approval under local byelaws, 1898-1948

BO/AR/18. Register of plans deposited for approval under local byelaws, c.1898-1948

BO/AR/21. Correspondence, 1903-1949

BO/AR/23. Public Enquiries papers, 1958-60

BO/AR/24. Miscellaneous, including Civic Celebrations and Regalia, 1887-1962; Town Panning, 1910-1964; Civil Defence, 1939-1945

BURIAL GROUNDS

BO/AR/25. Minutes and Financial Records, 1882-1942

BO/AR/29. Miscellaneous, 1941-1954

FINANCE

BO/AR/29A. Reports to the Council, 1955-1968

BO/AR/30. General and Housing Ledgers, 1893-1957; 1893-1925

BO/AR/31. Estimates, Abstracts, Financial Statements, 1897, 1972

BO/AR/34. Valuation Lists, 1929-1963

BO/AR/35. Rate Charge Books and Rate Books, 1913-1961/2; 1964/5-1972/3; 1955/6 - 1964

BO/AR/36. Summons of Cost of Collection Accounts, 1955-1973

BO/AR/37. Rating miscellaneous, including accounts, 1945-1973, and Arrears Books, 1946-1973

BO/AR/38. Housing accounts, 1932-1957

BO/AR/39. Rent Accounts, 1932-1955; 1961-1964

BO/AR/40. Housing miscellaneous, 1935

BO/AR/41. Records of wages and salaries, 1939-1943

BO/AR/44. Loans ledgers, 1883-1925; 1920-1970

BO/AR/50. Miscellaneous Accounts, including Surveyors' expenditure journals and ledger, 1888-1929

SURVEYOR AND ENGINEER

BO/AR/53. Working plans, 1836-c.1948

BO/AR/55. Reports to the Council, 1947-1974; 1947-1962; 1947-1968

BO/AR/56. Miscellaneous: Surveyor's Journals, 1947-1974

MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH

BO/AR/57. Annual Reports

All records deposited by the Team Clerk, Arundel Town Council, in April 1979, June 1980 and March 1984, except:

-BO/AR/16/1, 25/1, 30/1/3, 37/1/1, 38/1-4 and 53/3-17, which were deposited by Arun District Council in July 1976;

-BO/AR/1/1/21-25, 29/2, 34/1/3B-34/6, 34/2/4, 35/18/1-19/3, 36/1, 37/1/2-37/4/2, 39/6 and 55/5,6, which were deposited by Arun District Council in August 1990, and by Mr. Eric Cash, of Arundel, in February 2002.

-BO/AR/8/5 which was deposited by the WSCC County Secretariat in 1993.

These are the records of the post 1835 Arundel Borough, as reformed by the Municipal Corporation Act. Under this Act the old Corporation with its ancient privileges and abuses was abolished and the right of ratepayers to elect the Borough Councillors was established. There is a separate catalogue for the records of the pre 1835 Borough but searchers should be aware that there is unavoidably some overlap between the two catalogues.

A Local Government Board Order of 9 March 1876 repealed the 1785 Arundel Local Act and transferred the functions of the local commissioners to an Urban Sanitary Authority (see BO/AR/24/4/5). The members and officers of the Borough also acted as the Urban Sanitary Authority.

The Arundel (Extension) Order, 1902, transferred part of Tortington parish to Arundel Borough. See BO/AR/24/4/18 for a sealed copy of the map relating to this order.

Arundel was also a parliamentary Borough. It lost one of its two MP's under the 1832 Reform Act and was completely disenfranchised in 1868.