IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): MCC/CL/L/PARL
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: CLERK'S (LEGAL) DEPARTMENT: PARLIAMENTARY
Date(s): 1884-1965
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 12.83 linear metres
Name of creator(s): MCC | Middlesex County Council x Middlesex County Council
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
In 1889 County Council policy was directed by 72 members and administered under the leadership of Sir Richard Nicolson, Clerk of the County Council, and a handful of staff. The number of members had risen to 116 by 1952 and by 1965 the County staff numbered some 32,000, of whom 2,000 head office staff occupied the Guildhall and five other offices in Westminster. This indicates the tremendous increase in administrative work under successive Clerks of the County Council.
In the years between the two wars a semi-rural county became an almost completely urbanised area. The introduction of new legislation made ever increased demands upon members of the administrative staff, involving in later years monthly meetings of some 50 committees and sub-committees.
The Clerk's Department were responsible for monitoring Parliamentary legislation which might affect the work of the Council as well as preparing MCC bills for presentation to Parliament.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Legal Department relating to Parliament, 1884-1965, including papers relating to Bills promoted by the MCC including the Middlesex County Council Acts 1930, 1931, 1934, 1944 and 1961; copies of Parliamentary bills of interest to the County Council including bills promoted by other local authorities, legislation promoted by second tier authorities in Middlesex, orders concerning electrical and gas undertakings and orders concerned with tramways and railways; papers relating to water undertakings including Parliamentary bills, maps of water company districts and pollution of rivers; copies of Parliamentary standing orders.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
MCC/CL/L/PARL/01: Bills promoted by Middlesex County Council; MCC/CL/L/PARL/02: Parliamentary bills of general interest; MCC/CL/L/PARL/03: Bills concerning water undertakings; MCC/CL/L/PARL/04: Parliamentary standing orders.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to these records rests with the Corporation of London.
Physical characteristics:
Fit
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Immediate source of acquisition:
Acquired with the records of its parent authority, the Middlesex County Council, and with successor authorities.
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Publication note:
For further information on the history of the Middlesex County Council please see Middlesex by Sir Clifford Radcliffe (2 editions, 1939 and 1953), LMA Library reference 97.09 MID; and The County Council of the Administrative County of Middlesex: 76 years of local government, 1 April 1889 to 31 March 1965, by Middlesex County Council (1965), LMA library reference S97.09 MID.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Date(s) of descriptions: April to June 2009