Every year each local council is required to make and levy rates in respect of all rateable properties within its municipal district. The Municipal Institutions Act 1854 (No.26) empowered local counci
Also a Register of Insolvencies, this series lists all the insolvencies which were voluntary sequestrations (under Part III of the Insolvency Act 1870). Details were entered under the headings of No;
This series contains records created by Mining Companies that were wound up and were likely deposited with the Court of Mines in Beechworth. Section 23 of the Mining Companies Act 1871 contained a pr