| Description | The minutes are handwritten and signed by the committee chairman. Minute volumes BCC/1/AG/4/1/2 and 5 are currently missing. Minutes BCC/1/AG/4/1/1 are in a volume entitled 'Health & Public Works and Stables Old Committee Book 1880 - 1884'. Minutes BCC/1/AG/4/1/3 - 4 are in the volumes entitled 'Stables Sub-Committee'. The minutes include tables detailing costs of feeding, shoeing and harnessing of horses, tables describing the weight of horses used by different departments, details of payments to those working with Corporation horses, information relating to the appointment of staff, and descriptions of the granaries, stables and veterinary facilities employed by the Council, and annual accounts and departmental income and expenditure sheets (including comparisons with other large local authorities such as Liverpool and Manchester Corporations). |