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Municipality of the District of Argyle (1879-1926) fonds
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9.5 m of textual records
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All Municipal Council meetings were held at the Argyle Township Court House at Tusket since the Municipality's incorporation in 1879. A Council business office was not established until 1945. Previous to this time, Municipal Clerks and Treasurers kept the majority of the records at their homes or place of business. It is unclear how the records came to be held at the Court House. From 1945-1976, a proper staff was on hand in the Court House. The majority of the records in this fonds were left in the building when the Municipality of Argyle removed its offices to the renovated Tusket School building in 1976. The Archives was subsequently established in the Court House building with these and other abandoned municipal records forming the core of its holdings. A small portion of the records in the fonds were transferred to the Archives from the Municipal Office in approximately equal portions in 1990 and 1996.
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Fonds consists of records created or received by the Municipality of Argyle while carrying out its normal business activities, which includes elections, administration of roads and general administration. The fonds has been arranged chronologically. The Municipal records have been arranged into 4 fonds for practical reasons, as the original order of the pre-1926 records has been lost. The post-1926 order had not been compromised, and thus the proper rules for description and arrangement was applied. In 1997, it was decided that based on the fact that the Municipal Taxation records had been separated from the other Municipal records and their order compromised, that they would form another separate fonds.
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Location code: RG 3.
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Some records contained in Series K, L, and M (Overseers of the Poor, Poor Farm, and Public Health) are closed to the public for 80 years from the date of their creation.
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Credit must be given to the Argyle Township Court House Archives when material from this fonds is used or reproduced.
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Location code: RG 3.