Oswaldtwistle Local Board Act, 1882
WHEREAS William Gourlay being clerk to the Local Board of the district of Oswaldtwistle in the parish of Whalley in the county of Lancaster (in this Act called the Local Board) between the month of February one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight and the month of June one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine contrary to his duty as such clerk and without the knowledge or consent of the members of the Local Board received from a great number of persons sums of money amounting in the aggr...