Records of Newport Improvement Commission, 1826-1830.
Newport Improvement Commission Records
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- Dates of Creation1826-1830
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- Language of MaterialEnglish
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Administrative / Biographical History
Newport Improvement Commission was established by the Newport Improvement Act 1826. It was empowered to carry out various local government functions in Newport, Monmouthshire, including providing lighting, paving, water and regulating the police. The Commissioners were originally 80 in number, declining to 30 by 1850. The Commission was abolished in 1850 when the Borough Council adopted the Public Health Act 1848 which created Newport Local Board of Health.
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Compiled by Rhys Jones for the ANW project. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Gwent Record Office, Newport Improvement Commission, 1826-1830, catalogue; Warner, John, Local government in Newport 1835-1935 (Newport, 1935); Hey, David, Oxford Dictionary of Local and Family History (Oxford, 1997); Davis, Haydn, The History of the Borough of Newport: from swamp to super-town (Newport, 1998).
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