| Description | Large bundle of papers and correspondence relating to Prescot U.D.C. plans and notices to develop sewage and night soil works. Includes: schedule showing particulars of houses within 1/4 radius of the proposed new Nightsoil Depot; draft notice of intention to apply to the Local Government Board for power to purchase lands compulsorily in Prescot under the Public Health Act, 1875, for town refuse and nightsoil disposal works; government guidance and circulars; handwritten notes by Henry Cross, Clerk to the Prescot U.D.C.; printed application to the Local Government Board for a Provisional Order for Powers to purchase compulsorily certain Lands in the Parish of Prescot, addressed to the Provost and Scholars of Kings College, Cambridge, and to William Reakes of Rye Hay Farm, Prescot (6 December, 1911); draft affidavit of Henry Cross, Clerk to Prescot U.D.C., as to non-acquisition of houses inhabited by Working Classes (14 December, 1911); draft statutory declaration of Henry Cross as to compliance with the requirements of Section 176 of the Public Health Act, 1875 (14 December, 1911); draft statutory declaration of Mr. George Lawrenson as to service of Notices to Kings College, Cambridge, and William Reakes, Prescot (14 December, 1911); petition to the Local Government Board for Provisional Order for compulsory purchase of lands in Prescot (14 December, 1911); correspondence with the Local Government Board, Dyson & Co., solicitors, and Kings College, Cambridge; Notice of Dissent to the Proposed Town Refuse and Nightsoil Disposal Works by Charles Eustace Grant, Bursar of Kings College, Cambridge (27 February, 1912); three copies of the Bill to confirm orders (Local Government Provisional Orders, No. 3, April 1912); copies of statutory declarations of service of copies of Provisional Order (c. May 1912); and a copy of the Prescot Weekly Times newspaper with notice of the application to the Local Government Board (November 18, 1911). |