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Description: | Undated. This is the Charter that was granted to Morley by Queen Victoria on the last day of December 1885. In it are stated the terms for allowing the town to be divided into wards to elect a number of councillors for these wards and to choose the days etc. when these elections should take place. The Charter was sent to Thomas Clough as last chairman of the Local Board for him to make arrangements for the elections and to be the returning officer for them. Thomas Clough was one of six previous members of the old Local Board to be elected to the new Town Council. He was last in line of these six for election to the position of Mayor of Morley and by the time his turn came round the council had initiated a new Town Hall scheme and Thomas Clough was the man to lay its new memorial stone. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Charter | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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