[Public documents of Castle Menzies collection : primarily bills, petitions, acts and reports. A substantial portion relate to the construction and maintenance of roads in Perthshire and also in the north of Scotland during the early 19th century including a representation by a committee in Invernessshire for improved mail connections between Perth and Inverness. Other public documents relate to the act for the first national population census in 1801. There are other documents relating to various concerns of local administration such as police, local defence amenities and more general matters like the application of entail and the regulation of asylums.
Menzies family,collector.
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1793-1906.
Draught of a bill for an Act to be entitled, an Act for amending and Act ... intituled, "An Act to encourage the improvement of lands, tenements, and hereditaments, in that part of Britain called Scotland -- Draught of an Act, proposed to be passed by the Justices of Peace, and Commissioners of Supply of Perth, for regulating the weights and measures within the same, by the proper legal standards thereof. -- Cap. XV. an Act for taking an account of the population of Great Britain, and of the increase or diminution thereof. -- Cap. LXVI. an Act for establishing and maintaining a permanent additional force for the defence of the realm, and to provide for augmenting His Majesty's forces; and for the gradual reduction of the militia of Scotland. -- Proposed Bill for regulating and converting the statute services in the County of Perth, and for more effectually making and regulating the highways, bridges, and ferries within the said county. -- Supplement to the fifth report of the commissioners of inquiry into the collection and management of the revenue arising in Ireland -- Ninth report of the commissioners appointed for the purposes of an Act, passed ... intituled, "An Act to repeal two acts ... for maintaining and keeping in repair certain roads and bridges in Scotland -- Twelfth report of the commissioners appointed for the purposes of an act ... intituled, "An Act to repeal two acts ... for maintaining and keeping in repair certain roads and bridges in Scotland.
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Menzies family
Roads
Roads