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a "Reference to Colours," and in the right-hand bottom corner, in 

 a panel, a "Reference" to signs and indications on the map. At 

 the foot : " Photozincographed at the Ordnance Survey Office, 

 Southampton, 1888. Price 6d. All rights of reproduction 

 reserved." 



This is one of a series of diagrams of the counties in England 

 and Wales, showing sanitary districts and unions, issued by 

 the Ordnance Survey. There are 54 sheets in all (England, 42, 

 including 3 for the Ridings of Yorkshire ; Wales, 12). 



1888. Boundary Commissioners. About 20 x 14^. 

 Scale, 4 miles = 1 inch. Photozincographed at the Ordnance 

 Survey Office. 



Sketch-map of the county, without border, the size, scale, and 

 groundwork of the map itself being the same as in that last 

 described. It shows the railways, parishes, sites of towns and 

 villages, urban districts (shaded), poor law unions (names and 

 boundaries red), and areas proposed to be transferred to and 

 from the county (hatched red and green). In the right-hand 

 top corner is : " To face page 155 ", and, in the left-hand top 

 corner: "Local Grovernment Boundaries Commission. Diagram 

 of the Alterations Proposed By the Boundaries Commission, In 

 the County of Hertford, Showing . . ." (followed by particulars 

 of the signs, colours, and shadings used on the map), and, below : 

 " Scale of the Diagram 4 Miles to 1 Inch ", and, again, lower, 

 lithographed signature : " Rob. Owen Jones." Towards the 

 left-hand bottom corner, in a rectangular panel, a " Reference 

 by letter to the Small Parishes ", and below the map itself 

 another rectangular panel containing " References." These 

 panels, and the details in them, differ slightly from the similar 

 matter on the map previously noted. 



From the ' Report of the Boundary Commissioners of England 

 and Wales, 1888.' Vol. I. London, 2 vols., large fol., no date, 

 but : " Ordered to be printed ll'ii August 1888." 



The Commission was appointed under the Local Grovernment 

 (Boundaries) Act, 1887, to consider the adjustment of county 

 boundaries, etc., so that no union, borough, sanitary district, 

 or parish should lie in more than one county. The report itself 

 is dated 5th July, 1888. 



* 1888. Hertfordshire Quarter Sessions. 141^ x 

 llf. Scale, 3 miles = 1 inch. Lithographed by Robert J. Cook & 

 Hammond. 



A reprint of the map of 1887, with the boundaries of the 

 poor law unions coloured red, and the county electoral divisions 

 coloured. In manuscript is added below the title " Hertford- 

 shire", the words : " Local G-overnment Act, 1888 ", and, belowthe 

 Note ■ " Plan showing provisional arrangement of Electoral Dis- 

 tricts, 14*11 Sept'^'. 1888 ", and : " Unions shown thus." 



This reprint was also prepared for the use of the Court of 

 Quarter Sessions. 



