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Includes the following:

• Return of Convictions;
• Calendar of Prisoners in Cobourg Gaol - Jun. 1917;
• Petit Jurors and Grand Jurors list Apr. 1917;
• Rex. Vs. Dale, Brighton -G. Drewry commits Lionel Dale and Arthur Dale to Children's Aid Society;
• Godkins Rape charge, Orono;
• Galt Stove and Furnace Co. vs. George H. Sherwood of Brighton;
• Desertion of a Child - Alice Townsend of Norwood;
• Voters list: Murray, Haldimand;
• Letter to W. Kerr from C.O of 247th battalion RE: Prosecution of a Farmer named Lunm in Port Hope for his statement that "Canada would be just as good under German rule as it is today";
• Hastings Constable inquiring W. Kerr is there is come recourse to force an American who marrying a Canadian to swear allegiance to Crown;
• John Young writing to W. Kerr to notify of Fred Mikel theft of Items, Brighton;
• Proof of Citizenship for Edson Andrus and William Wyman Andrus, Orono
• Letter RE: to promote the banning of Nick Carter stories
• Resignation of Lawson and replacement by John A. Clark, Brighton
• Petit Juror list and Grand Jurors list, Jan. 1917
• William Townsend, deceased of Oshawa, RE: ownership of personal items
• Letter to W. Kerr: Complaint lodge by B. Cohen, of Colborne, lays a complaint against an Austrian man for misrepresentation--- Letter makes reference to Cohen's Jewish heritage
• Insurance company of James Joseph Connelly of Bowmanville wishes to see Inquest report.
• Mrs. Charles Brown write W. Kerr explaining that her husband tried to commit suicide, and she is afraid of him
• Rex. Vs. Chaplin, Seymour

This fonds consists of township records, by-laws, legal correspondence, records of the Queen's Bench and General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the United Counties of Northumberland and Durham. Records include indictments, convictions and inquests and case records (which are effectively a continuation of the inquests, convictions and indictments series).

The fonds is arranged into 9 series:

1. Township business with bylaws, oaths of coroner's and coroner's commissions and jail surgeons
2. Voter's lists and books including militia rolls
3. Juries and jurors
4. Convictions and return of convictions
5. Inquests
6. Indictments
7. Magistrates returns
8. Justice of the Peace Commissions
9. Criminal and Civil Procedures and Correspondence and Case Records which reflect a change in the organization of records by the County Clerk's office after 1914 and which contain inquest, conviction and indictment documents.
10. Correspondence and miscellaneous