NRS-15790 | Minute Book [Colo Provisional Council]

Full description

This series contains minutes of the general and special meetings of the Colo Provisional Shire Council. The Minutes were created at least monthly and recorded chronologically.

The Colo Provisional Council was appointed in 1906, under s.7 (a) of the Local Government (Shires) Act 1905. This section allowed for the appointment of Temporary Councillors who were required to organise and supervise the preparation of electoral rolls and to make all the necessary arrangements for the election of the first council. (1) The Temporary Councillors were appointed on 16 May 1906, and held their first meeting on 13 June 1906. The Council organised an election to take place on the 24 November 1906. (2)

The general meetings record inward and outward correspondence received by the Council, motions put to the Council, reports of committees and other relevant items of business. The minutes document the variety of activities for which the Council was responsible including financial management, and preparation for Council elections.

This minute book is not arranged in strictly chronological order, and contains outwards correspondence. The minutes have also been damaged at some stage, and have been given a protective covering.

Special Meetings were called to record a specific issue. Reports were generally also tabled at these Meetings relating to the subject.

These minute books were initially created under s.49 of the Local Government (Shires) Act 1905 (Act No. 33,1905). This section specified business transacted at Council meetings was required to be recorded in a Minute Book

Custody History
This series was in the custody of Mitchell library from 1965 until December 2001 when it was transferred to State Records NSW under section 29 of the State Records Act, 1998.

Endnotes
(1) NSW Government Gazette 16 May, 1906 p. 2979 - 2981
(2) Barkely, Jan, Nichols, M Hawkesbury 1794 - 1994 The First Two Hundred Years of the Second Colonisation, Hawkesbury City Council 1994 Windsor