| Description | Includes commissions 1699-1922; lists of commissioners 1671-1758, oath rolls 1715-1789, court minutes 1647-1788; articles of inquiry 1720; verdicts 1592-1787; presentments and amercements 1716-1785; reports 1602-1880; pains 1587-1774; petitions 1646-1761, traverses 1712-1764; orders, precepts, warrants and appointments 1616-1788; inquisitions 15th century-1662; assessments 1647-1783, accounts 1645-1783; correspondence 1647-1790; miscellaneous documents 1647-c.1755; order books 1662-1944; books of pains 1660-1690, 1709-1847; account books 1785-1930; letter books 1858-1937; miscellaneous volumes 1716-1912; Acts and Bills 1709-1933; assessments and apportionments 1816-1931; legal papers 1789-1885; surveyors' reports 1881-1932; surveyors' letter books 1890-1933; surveyors' cash books 1870-1931
With additional records deposited 29 Mar 1977 including jury lists and qualifications 1782-1860; pains 1764-1847; presentments and amercements 1774-1865; orders to repair notices 1839-1911; summonses for not paying taxes 1850-1908; distraints 1857-1906; order to appear at the court notices 1814-1891; appointment of officials 1843-1910; orders and petitions 1764-1908; meeting notices 1841-1914; reports 1807-1906; tenders and specifications 1825-1906; bonds and agreements 1853-1910; correspondence 1831-1931; owners and occupiers lists 1837-early 20th century, General Sewer Tax apportionments 1842-1909, assessments 1812-1910; arrears 1852-1889; Local Government Returns of receipts and expenditure 1861-1914; accounts 1788-1917; legal papers 1836-1911; acts 19th century; plans, photograph and maps 1861-1908
With additional records for Howdenshire and the west parts of the East Riding deposited 4 Jun 1982 including court minute books 1807-1842; court minutes 1840-1842; volumes 1725-1853; lists of jurymen 1828-1834; notices 1759-19th century; presentments and amercements 1827-1833; petitions 1820s-1840; correspondence 1826-1840s; assessments and arrears 1830s-1840s; accounts and receipts 1820s-1873; deed 1760, legal papers [1759]-1841; act 1813; and records from outside the East Riding 1833-1923 |
| AdminHistory | The East Riding Commissioners of Sewers were created under the terms of the Statute of Sewers 1532 which authorised the appointment of commissioners charged with the drainage of low-lying land liable to flooding. Courts of sewers conducted their business in a judicial manner, before a jury. The work of the Commissioners was concerned with land drainage and embankment. The Commissioners of Sewers were abolished in 1930 as a result of the Land Drainage Act and their functions were transferred to Internal Drainage Boards. |