MUNICIPAL COUNCIL MINUTES

MUNICIPALITY OF THE DISTRICT OF ARGYLE

Minutes Published in Broadsheet or Poster Format

Minutes are of the Annual meeting, usually held in January and
the Semi-annual meeting usually held in either May or June of any given year.

It is unclear just when the custom of publishing the Annual and Semi-annual minutes of Municipal Council (and previously the Court of General Sessions of the Peace) came into practice. One assumes the published minutes were posted in various public places throughout the Municipality of Argyle. The earliest surviving set of these published/printed minutes are for October 1872. This listing is for the surviving copies of the minutes, in this format, surviving in the municipal records. Beginning in January 1933, the then Municipal Clerk, Bernard H. Hurlbert, also began glueing a copy of the Annual and Semi-Annual Meeting into the bound Municipal Minute Books. These were then signed by himself and the Warden. In some cases, where a loose copy of the published minutes have not survived, they do exist in the minute books in this form. This will be noted in our lisiting of missing minutes in this appendix.

Note: In some cases duplicate copies were retained that were not encapsulated, but housed in storage tubes. In all cases at least one copy was encapsulated. Published minutes for some years have not survived. These were the copies which remained extant in the Argyle Township Court House in 1983. Previous to 1945 most Township and later Municipal Clerks and other officials conducted the majority of their business from their homes in the village of Tusket. It is clear that many of their records were eventually deposited at the Court House when the Municipality established a proper office of business there in 1945.

Minutes encapsulated in mylar summer 1996:-

Minutes for the Court of General Sessions of the Peace for the District of Argyle
October 1872
October 1874
April 1875
October 1875
October 1876
October 1877

Minutes of the Municipality of the District of Argyle (municipal incorporation took place in 1879/80)

Jan. 1881
Jan. 1882
Jan. 1883
Jan. 1884
Jan. 1886
Jan. 1887
Jan. 1888
May 1888
Jan. 1890
May 1890
Jan. 1891
Jan. 1892
Jan. 1893
May 1893
May 1894
Jan. 1895
June 1895
Jan. 1896
Jan. 1897
May 1897
Jan. 1898
Jan. 1900
Jan. 1901
Jan. 1902
May 1902
Jan. 1903
Jan. 1904
Jan. 1905
Jan. 1906
Jan. 1907
Jan. 1908
May 1908
Jan. 1909
May 1909
Jan. 1910
May 1910
Jan. 1911
May 1911
Jan. 1912
May 1912
Jan. 1913
May 1913
Jan. 1914
May 1914
Jan. 1915
May 1915
Jan. 1916
May 1916
Jan. 1917
May 1917
Jan. 1918
May 1918
Jan. 1919
May 1919
Jan. 1920
May 1920
Jan. 1921
May 1921
Jan. 1922
May 1922
Jan. 1923
May 1923
Jan. 1924
May 1924
Jan. 1925
May 1925
Jan. 1926
May 1926
Jan. 1927
May 1927
Jan. 1928
May 1928
Jan. 1929
May 1929 (2 copies)
Jan. 1930
May 1930
Jan. 1931
May 1931
May 1932
May 1933
Jan. 1934
May 1934
Jan. 1935
May 1935
May 1936
May 1937
Jan. 1938
May 1938
Jan. 1939
May 1939
May 1940
May 1941
May 1942
May 1946
May 1947
Jan. 1949

Note: A range of published minutes not included in the surviving copies listed above for the years 1933-1955 are found in the Municipal Council Minute Books. The published minutes were glued into the minute books by Clerk Bernard H. Hurlbert. Those published minutes found in the minute books, and listed as missing copies below, stand as the only copy and the only evidence that the Municipality did continue to publish their minutes until the end of 1955.

Duplicate Copies of Published Minutes
Published Broadside or Poster Format

Note:- These duplicates were flattened, then re-rolled and rolled within acid free tissue in the summer of 1996. Other copies of the same minutes were encapsulated in mylar during the summer 1996.

Jan. 1881
Jan. 1882
Jan. 1886
Jan. 1891
Jan. 1892
Jan. 1893
Jan. 1898
Jan. 1900
Jan. 1901
Jan. 1902
Jan. 1903
Jan. 1904
Jan. 1905
Jan. 1906
Jan. 1907
Jan. 1908
May 1908
Jan. 1909
May 1909
Jan. 1910
May 1910
Jan. 1911
May 1911
May 1912
Jan. 1913
May 1913
Jan. 1915
May 1915
Jan. 1916
May 1916
Jan. 1917
Jan. 1918
May 1918 (2 copies)
Jan. 1919
May 1919
Jan. 1920
May 1920
Jan. 1921
May 1921
Jan. 1922
May 1922
Jan. 1923
May 1923
Jan. 1924
May 1924
Jan. 1925
May 1925
Jan. 1926
May 1926
May 1927
Jan. 1928
May 1928
Jan. 1929
May 1931
May 1933
May 1934
May 1935
Jan. 1938
May 1938
Jan. 1940
May 1940
May 1941
May 1942
Jan.1943
May 1947
Jan. 1949

Missing Minutes Published in Broadside or Poster Format

Notes: Since we do not have these, we are presuming they were published, and are missing. We cannot be certain that such minutes were published.

Minutes of Court of General Sessions of the Peace of the District of Argyle
1873
1878
1879

Minutes of Municipal Council for Municipality of the District of Argyle
1880
May 1881
May 1882
May 1883
May 1884
Jan. 1885
May 1885
May 1886
May 1887
May 1891
May 1892
Jan. 1894
May 1894
June 1895
June 1896
June 1897
June 1898
Jan. 1899
May 1899
May 1899
May 1900
May 1901
May 1902
May 1903
May 1904
May 1905
May 1906
May 1907
Jan. 1932
Jan. 1933 – Only existing copy has been glued into the minute book
Jan. 1936 – Only existing copy has been glued into the minute book
Jan. 1937 – Only existing copy has been glued into the minute book
Jan. 1940 – Only existing copy has been glued into the minute book
Jan. 1941 – Only existing copy has been glued into the minute book
Jan. 1942 – Only existing copy has been glued into the minute book
Jan. 1943 – Only existing copy has been glued into the minute book
May 1943 – Only existing copy has been glued into the minute book
Jan. 1944 – Only existing copy has been glued into the minute book
May 1944 – Only existing copy has been glued into the minute book
Jan. 1945 – Only existing copy has been glued into the minute book
May 1945 – Only existing copy has been glued into the minute book
Jan. 1946 – Only existing copy has been glued into the minute book
Jan. 1947 – Only existing copy has been glued into the minute book
Jan.1948 – Only existing copy has been glued into the minute book
May1948 – Only existing copy has been glued into the minute book
Jan. 1949 – Only existing copy has been glued into the minute book
May 1949 – Only existing copy has been glued into the minute book
Jan. 1950 – Only existing copy has been glued into the minute book
May 1950 – Only existing copy has been glued into the minute book
Jan. 1951 – Only existing copy has been glued into the minute book
May 1951 – Only existing copy has been glued into the minute book
Jan. 1952 – Only existing copy has been glued into the minute book
May 1952 – Only existing copy has been glued into the minute book
Jan. 1953 – Only existing copy has been glued into the minute book
May 1953 – Only existing copy has been glued into the minute book
Jan. 1954 – Only existing copy has been glued into the minute book
May 1954 – Only existing copy has been glued into the minute book
Jan. 1955 – Only existing copy has been glued into the minute book
May 1955 – Only existing copy has been glued into the minute book

Minute books suggest with the May 1955 Semi-annual minutes the tradition of publishing the minutes in this format ceased.