| Description | The minutes are handwritten and signed by the committee chairman. The minutes are bound in a blue soft-back hand-labelled volume entitled 'Bill Committee' on the front. The minutes detail amendments to clauses in the parliamentary bill proposed by Birmingham Corporation, committees, and the parliamentary committees of the Houses of Commons and Lords. The minutes also deal with financial matters pertaining to the passing of the bill (i.e. Councillors' expenses, parliamentary fees and printing), and the development of provisions for the areas of policy making that the Borough Improvement Act, 1851, would grant the Corporation of Birmingham (i.e. burial grounds, street cleaning, inspection of markets and slaughterhouses). |