| Description | Letters and papers relating to the division of the North Riding into electoral districts for the new County Council, including:
- report dated 5 October 1888 of the Finance and General Purposes Committee relating to electoral divisions of the county; with drafts
- letter dated 5 October 1888 from R.E. Pannett clerk to the Whitby District Local Board approving the division of Whitby into three electoral districts (Whitby East, Whitby West and Ruswarp)
- newspaper cutting from the Whitby Gazette dated 5 October 1888 relating to the meeting of the Hinderwell Local Board and their objections to the new electoral boundaries
- letter dated 6 October 1888 from W. Jefferson clerk to the Hinderwell Local Board to George Buchannan esquire clerk to the magistrates at Whitby expressing the dissatisfaction of the Board that they should be merged in the electoral district of Danby for the election of a county councillor
- letter dated 6 October 1888 from George Buchannan solicitor at Whitby to William C. Trevor deputy Clerk of the Peace at Northallerton enclosing the letter from the Clerk to the Hinderwell Local Board
- letter dated 11 October 1888 from E. Gray undersheriff of Yorkshire at 75 Petergate, York, to the Clerk of the Peace at Northallerton. If the sheriff decides to carry out elections for county councillors, then he will desire to have the full allowance towards expenses that the magistrates are empowered to grant
- letter dated 15 October 1888 from George Bainbridge town clerk of Middlesbrough to W.C. Trevor esquire at Northallerton listing the numbers of voters in Ormesby, Normanby and Eston
- order at the Michaelmas Sessions on 16 October 1888 dividing the North Riding into electoral divisions
- draft undated printed extract relating the combining of various Rural and Urban Sanitary Authorities to form electoral divisions
- undated newspaper cutting reporting that the Guardians and waywardens of the Pickering Rural Sanitary Authority feel that the electoral divisions of Helmsley, Kirby Moorside and Thornton are under-represented In the draft scheme for the county council
- undated list of the numbers of occupation voters in the townships of Eston, Normanby, Ormesby, Skelton North ward, and Skelton South ward
- undated list of Unions, with numbers of members
- draft undated printed extract relating to Thornaby North and Thornaby South electoral divisions
- undated draft of list of motions |