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Many of the maps are split up amongst the various different collections for example tithes maps found amongst the diocesan records and enclosure maps found amongst court records. Fortunately there is a single card catalogue that combines all of the maps from the various collections and has listed them by the area they cover.
The Public Records Act (PRA) is a law of the U.S. state of Washington requiring public access to all records and materials from state and local agencies. [1] It was originally passed as a ballot initiative by voters in 1972 and revised several times by the state legislature. The definition of public records, especially concerning the state ...
The California Public Records Act (California Government Code §§6250-6276.48) covers the arrest and booking records of inmates in the State of California jails and prisons, which are not covered by First Amendment rights (freedom of speech and of the press). Public access to arrest and booking records is seen as a critical safeguard of liberty.
A record office will typically include public search rooms (including reference books, archive catalogues and other finding aids), environmentally controlled strongrooms, administrative offices, and quite often small exhibition areas [a] together with a conservation room for the specialist repair [b] of documents.
The Public Records Act 1958 was the foundational legislation in the UK that governed the preservation and access to public records. It was this act that established the principle of transferring records from public offices to The National Archives, and other places of deposit, after 30 years unless they were selected for earlier destruction.
Public Records and Archives Administration Department: 1997 Gibraltar: Gibraltar Archives: Gibraltar: 1969 Greece: General State Archives: Psychiko: 1914 Greenland: Greenland National Museum: Nuuk: 1982 Ammassalik wooden maps; 15th-century mummies and clothing of the Thule / Greenlandic Inuit culture at the Qilakitsoq archaeological site
An original cell of the Public Record Office at the Maughan Library. The growing size of the archives held by the PRO and by government departments led to the Public Records Act 1958, which sought to avoid the indiscriminate retention of huge numbers of documents by establishing standard selection procedures for the identification of those documents of sufficient historical importance to be ...
The Public Records Act 1967 [1] (c. 44) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed during Harold Wilson's Labour government.. The Act amended the Public Records Act 1958 by reducing the period whereby public records (apart from those deemed "sensitive" by the Lord Chancellor) were closed to the public from fifty years to thirty years, the "thirty-year rule".