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- 1822-1885 (Creation)
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Papers relating to Montgomeryshire tollgates, including a mounted letter from Thomas Penson, road surveyor, to Mr Griffiths, lessee of tollgates, 1822; a mounted 'Memorandum of interest due from the commissioners of Llanymynech Trust', from the Oswestry District trustees' minute book, 1 May 1824; a mounted memorandum of the clerk to the Oswestry District trustees, 1824; handbills and posters relating to the First District of Montgomeryshire Roads, 1840-1885; a newspaper cutting containg a notice of auction of tolls of First District of Montgomeryshire Roads, 1842; and three encapsulated posters, 1842 and 1870.
The First District of Montgomeryshire Roads handbills and posters comprise conditions of letting, 7 Feb. 1840, 2 Feb. 1841; notice of auction of Berthllwyd gate, 5 June 1840; notice of auction of St Giles and Pwllybidron gates, 7 Aug. 1840; notice of auction of tollgates of First District, 24 Dec. 1840; notice (2) of meeting of Trustees of Turnpike for co's Mont., Mer., Shrop. and Denb., 24 Dec. 1840, to consult re. erecting tollgate near Highgate; notice as above re. erecting tollgate at Nantdwyfildir; notice of auction of tolls, 5 Feb. 1841; newspaper cutting (2) of a notice of auction of tolls of First District, 6 March 1841; notice of auction of tolls of same, 27 Jan. 1842; notice for electing new trustees, 22 Mar. 1842; notice for electing new trustees, 8 Dec. 1842; notices of expiration of Trust, 28 Feb. 1885; 2nd District of Mont. Roads, statement of receipts.
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The mounted items were formerly Welshpool Public Library: O. Gilbert Davies collection, 215.2.1933, 215.3.1933 and 215.4.1933. Many of the other items are numbered 404.[number].1934.