Information generally becomes less detailed. A brief summary is made based on the judge's review of the service agency's reports, and an order of adoption in light of the facts is made. Around the turn of the century, corporate dissolution records appear intermittently in the books, with the company as the deceased. Corporate dissolution was part of the district court's regular function, but is more frequently covered in the civil and criminal case division of the district court. Voluntary dissolution called for evidence of stockholder approval and published notice before the judge issued a decree to dissolve the company and distribute property.
Name changes occur periodically throughout the record books as orders for change of name.
The former name and the desired new name are recorded, at times along with the rationale for the change. The arrangement of the volumes and their entries changed numerous times through the years producing an extremely irregular and discontinuous pattern. Volumes are alphanumerical and their entries are roughly chronological, but cases may be continued out of sequence. By 1884, guardianship records have begun to be kept in separate volumes. Cases continued from the main record books were recorded in volumes labeled 'Continuations'.