Derry Corporation Minute Book Volume 15B (1860-1863)

Introduction

This volume of Derry Corporation minutes covers the period from 6th August 1860 to 2nd February 1863.

This volume is difficult to read, details are brief, and it appears to be the original notes, including amendments and corrections, taken during the meetings.  The paper is blue in colour.  The final copy for this period appears to be the previous volume (Volume 15).

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Highlights from Volume 15B

References include details of two gifts which were presented to the Corporation - a ‘Map of Northern America’ and the ‘Manual of the Common Council of New York 1860’.  The items were presented by Alderman Bagley of the City of New York.

In February 1861, the Freedom of the City was granted to Sir Leopold McClintock …as a token of the ‘high estimation held during his office’.  Freedom was also granted to Sir Robert Peel, Chief Secretary for Ireland in ‘testimony of its appreciation of his distinguished abilities and sense of his anxiety to promote the welfare of Ireland’.

In August 1862, discussions focus on the large increase in the ‘property and population outside the present municipal boundary’, which renders its necessary that proper measures should now be adopted for ‘extending to those important districts’ advantages such as sewerage, water, lighting and cleansing facilities’.