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1861-1872; 1897-1940 (Creation)
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- Halifax (N.S.). Committee on City Prison
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18 cm of textual records
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Administrative history
The Committee of City Prison was established in the late 1850s when a city prison was established at Rockhead Farm overlooking the Bedford Basin. The standing committee consisted of six aldermen who were responsible for supervising the prison and whose activities included keeping the accounts of the prison and submitting them to council for payment; arranging contracts for prison supplies; approving disciplinary measures against inmates; and overseeing the maintenance and repair of the prison. The committee met on a monthly basis, elected its own chairman, and members rotated the responsibility of monthly prison visits. In 1940 the responsibilities of the Committee of City Prison were subsumed by the newly created Committee on Public Health and Welfare.
Custodial history
Series was transferred from NSARM to HRM in 2004 and accessioned by the archives in 2005.
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Series consists of hand written and typed meeting minutes as well as a limited amount of correspondence and miscellaneous materials.
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A finding aid is available onsite.
Associated materials
For additional materials related to the City Prison see also the City Prison Series (102-18) and the Public Health and Welfare Committee Records Series (102-30). Nova Scotia Archives also holds reports of monthly meetings and visitations by the commissioners of the provincial penitentiary board to the Halifax city prison (Rockhead), 1844-1852 (see RG 1 vol. 411-418).
Accruals
A further accrual of committee correspondence is expected from the records centre.
Signatures note
Some minutes from 1897 thru 1908 have been signed and approved by the committee's chairman.