| Description | List of petitions and notices received at the Christmas Sessions 1863 [relating to the adoption of the new Highway Act]. Includes:
- undated petition from the parish of Alne: signed by 19 freeholders and ratepayers
- petition dated 1 December 1862 from the township of Maltby: signed by 27 ratepayers
- petition dated 7 November 1862 from the township of Gristhorpe: signed by 29 ratepayers
- notice dated 2 January 1863 from the Overseer [of the Poor] of Barton le Willows, that at a meeting on 30 December 1862 it was agreed to adopt the Local Government Act for Highways
- undated petition from the township of Bransdale West Side: signed by 13 ratepayers
- notice dated 1 January 1863 from the clerk to the Local Board of the parish of Huntington, that the parish is to adopt the Local Government Act 1858 and therefore cannot form part of a Highway District under the new Act
- notice dated 23 December 1862 from the Surveyors of the Highways to keep the Crosby highways as they are
- petition dated December 1862 from the township of Huby in the parish of Sutton on the Forest, signed by 109 ratepayers
- petition dated December 1862 from the townships of Brandsby cum Stearsby in the parish of Brandsby, signed by 23 ratepayers
- notice dated 5 January 1863 from the churchwarden and summoning officer of the township of Farlington that the Local Government Act 1858 was adopted by the owners of property and ratepayers at a meeting held on that date
- undated petition from the parish of Middleham: signed by 57 owners of property and ratepayers
- notice dated 5 January 1863 from the clerk to the Local Board of the township of Earswick, that the township has taken steps to adopt the Local Government Act 1858, and therefore cannot form part of any Highway District
- undated petition from the townships of East and West Hauxwell and Barden; signed by or on behalf of 27 owners of property and ratepayers
- undated petition from the township of Hutton le Hole: signed by 39 ratepayers
- petition from the township of Lebberston dated 18 November 1862: signed by 27 ratepayers
- notice dated 29 December 1862 from the churchwarden and summoning officer of the township of Flaxton on the Moor that they have adopted the Local Government Act 1858 at a vestry meeting held on 29 December 1862
- undated petition from the ratepayers of Aldwark: signed by 28 ratepayers
- undated petition from the township of Picton: signed by 13 ratepayers
- undated petition from the township of High Abbotside: signed by 74 ratepayers and owners of property
- undated petition from the township of Cornbrough: signed by eight ratepayers
- petition dated December 1862 from the township of Sutton on the Forest, signed by 108 ratepayers
- undated resolution of a meeting of the inhabitants of the three townships of Ampleforth St Peter's, Ampleforth Birdforth, and Ampleforth Oswaldkirk Quarter, signed only by the chairman of the meeting |