8 ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS 



(1) That it is desirable to establish throughout the 

 country local offices for the preservation and systematic 

 arrangement and study of documents relating to the 

 history and administration of the district. 



(2) That the local offices should be established in the 

 town where the County Council has its offices, that it 

 should be provided by, and under the control of, the 

 Standing Joint Committee — representing the Justices of 

 the Peace and the County Council — and that a sufficient 

 sum of money should be allowed by the County Council 

 to ensure the safety and the convenient arrangement of 

 the documents and to pay competent custodians attached 

 to the office. 



(3) That plans, maps, common enclosure awards, sessions 

 records, at present in the custody of the Clerk of the 

 Peace and others, parish registers before 1812, and all 

 public documents should be deposited and made available 

 for students and others, under conditions similar to those 

 laid down at the Public Record Office, London. 



(4) That public bodies should be empowered and 

 encouraged to deposit at the office their archives, deeds, 

 and charters of archaeological interest, that lords of manors 

 be invited to deposit court rolls, and the wardens of free 

 companies their records, as in the Public Record Office 

 in London. 



(5) That landowners, lawyers, and others possessing 

 deeds, charters, and plans having an archaeological rather 

 than a business value, be invited either to present to 

 or to deposit such documents in the local record office. 



The following members have died since the last annual 

 meeting of the Club : — 



The Rev. Patrick George McDouall, M.A., of Southsea, 

 who had been a member for the long period of 45 years, 

 having been elected 10th October 1861. 



The Rev. Beverley Smelt Wilson, B.A., of Trinity 

 College, Cambridge, vicar of Alnham 1865, incumbent 



