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Regulations. Executive records.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Use broadly for principles, rules, or laws designed to control or regulate behaviour of individuals, corporations, or other entities.

Found in 54 Collections and/or Records:

Papers relating to the Old Tolbooth, Edinburgh, many of which appear to have been cut from the prison register., 1662-1794.

 File
Identifier: MS.215
Scope and Contents The papers include a petition of Christian Strachan, accused of parricide, for appointment of counsel, with signature of James Erskine, Lord Grange, 1712 (folio 4); warrants for committing to, continuing in, or liberating from, the Tolbooth, 1662-1673 (folio 5), 1736 (folio 10), 1794 (folio 13); the imprisonment of seven soldiers of the City Guard for firing on the mob at the execution of Andrew Wilson, 1736 (folio 10); names of eleven persons who escaped from the Tolbooth as a result of the...
Dates: 1662-1794.

Printed and other miscellaneous material, chiefly relating to military matters., 1834-1863, undated.

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Identifier: MS.2877, (i)-(xix), (xxi)
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) ‘Proclamation for a Tournament’, held at Corfu, 1834, in Greek, English, and Italian.(ii) Proclamation relating to the Rebecca Riots in Brecon, 1843.(iii) ‘Rules and Regulations to be observed on the occupation of cells of approved construction’, issued by the Adjutant-General, November 1844.(iv) ‘Exercise with Heavy Shot, as a means of enforcing a sentence of hard labour’, undated.Numbers (iii) and...
Dates: 1834-1863, undated.

'Record of the Linnen Manufactory in Dunse, 1765’, i.e. Duns Linen Company.

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Identifier: MS.3707
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:Rules and regulations of Partnery (page 1);Minutes of meetings, 1765-1771, 1774 (page 14);A transfer of a share, 1766 (page 57);Invoices, 1767-1768 (page 60);Copies of out-going letters relating to dealings with William Tod & Company, London, 1768-1771 (page 66).Promoted in 1765 by neighbouring gentry and inhabitants of Duns with a view to the public benefit, the company was composed...
Dates: 1765-1774.

Society rules, constitution and history, with some miscelleaneous matter., 1822-1974 and undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.13898/17-21
Scope and Contents

Contains versions of the rules and constitution, studies of the history of the Society, photographs, newspaper cuttings and two printed works sent to the Society.

Dates: 1822-1974 and undated.