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*An ''indictment'' is a formal document accusing one or more persons of a specified indictable offence or offences.<ref>Christensen, Penelope. "England Petty, Borough, and Quarter Sessions (National Institute)," ''The National Institute for Genealogical Studies'' (2012), https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/England_Petty,_Borough,_and_Quarter_Sessions_%28National_Institute%29#Borough_Sessions.</ref> | *An ''indictment'' is a formal document accusing one or more persons of a specified indictable offence or offences.<ref>Christensen, Penelope. "England Petty, Borough, and Quarter Sessions (National Institute)," ''The National Institute for Genealogical Studies'' (2012), https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/England_Petty,_Borough,_and_Quarter_Sessions_%28National_Institute%29#Borough_Sessions.</ref> | ||
=== County Administration === | |||
*Appointments, salaries, fees, allowances, dismissals etc. of county officials. | |||
*Coroners reports and accounts. | |||
*County gaols and convict transportation. | |||
*Elections and voters’ lists. | |||
*Enclosure of land and deed, awards and agreements about land. | |||
*Licensing of various trades, non-conformist meeting houses, lunatic asylums, societies, charities, savings banks, printing presses, boats and barges etc., any of which may have been hived off to local licensing courts. | |||
*Militia recruitment training and billeting, also volunteers and navy recruitment and militia storehouses. | |||
*Regulating wages, rates for carriage and prices of staple goods, with establishment of positions such as the inspectors of weights and measures | |||
*Roads, bridges, and turnpike trusts. | |||
*Taxation, for example hearth tax, poor rates and land tax assessments. | |||
*Various oaths for conformity and allegiance. | |||
In 1888 the county councils took the administrative load off the Quarter Sessions but the latter retained their licensing functions. | |||
=== Judicial cases === | === Judicial cases === | ||