Circulars issued Lodges, as follows: Balance sheet giving income, listing names of pits, giving the pit’s total contribution, and its contribution for death, sickness and accident, and delegates’ expenses; giving expenditure as follows: wages to named employees; grants and donations to named individuals; expenditure for deputations to named collieries; expenditure on conveyances at named collieries; expenditure on arbitrations at named collieries; expenditure on strikes and lock-outs at named collieries; expenditure on breakage of machinery at named collieries; expenditure on sacrificed members at named collieries for named individuals; expenditure on law charges and court expenses at named collieries; expenditure on death legacies and sick allowances at named collieries; miscellaneous expenditure including one named individual, September 1877 – December 1877 Relief Fund Balance Sheet giving the names of collieries contributing and receiving funds, 13 September 1877 – 13 December 1877 Programme of Ordinary Council Meeting, 5 January 1878 Minutes of Ordinary Council Meeting, including names of individuals and collieries, 5 January 1878 Advertisement for the Miners’ Watchman newspaper, January 1878 Minutes of Joint Committee (Auckland District) including names of collieries, 11 January 1878 Minutes of Committee Meeting, including names of individuals and collieries, 15 January 1878 Minutes of Joint Committee Meeting (East District), including names of collieries, 21 January 1878 Minutes of committee meeting, including names of individuals and collieries, 28 January 1878 Minutes of committee meeting, including names of individuals and collieries, 1 February 1878 Minutes of Joint Committee Meeting (North District) including names of collieries, 4 February 1878 Minutes of committee meeting, including names of individuals and collieries, 11 February 1878 Minutes of committee meeting, including names of individuals and collieries, 12 February 1878 Notice, issued by William Crawford, Offices, 16 North Road, Durham, asking members of the to cast their ballot for or against the grant of £50 to allow a sacrificed member, William Prentice, to establish a business, 8 January 1878 Notice, issued by W Crawford, Secretary, asking members who ask for the attendance of an agent at Lodge meetings to adhere to certain procedures in the submission of claims for money, 24 January 1878 Minutes of Joint Committee Meeting, including names of collieries, 15 February 1878 Minutes of committee meeting, including names of individuals and collieries, 20 February 1878 Notice, issued by W Crawford, accompanying details of the number of votes assigned to an individual or a colliery for the next Council Meeting 19 February 1878 Programme of Council Meeting, including names of individuals and collieries, 2 March 1878 Report of the Executive Committee, explaining its actions in the case of appeals for relief made by individual miners, giving names of individuals and names of pits, 20 February 1878 Request, addressed by William Crawford to Lodges, for details of the number of inspections they have made of their ‘Pit or Pits, or Seams’ in 1877, 2 February 1878 Minutes of Council Meeting, including names of individuals or collieries, 2 March 1878 Minutes of Joint Committee Meeting, (East District), including names of pits, 4 March 1878 Minutes of committee meeting, including names of individuals and collieries, 12 March 1878 Minutes of committee meeting, including names of individuals and collieries, 19 March 1878 Minutes of committee meeting, including names of individuals and collieries, 21 March 1878 Minutes of Joint Committee Meeting (North District), giving names of collieries, 25 March 1878 Notice, issued by W. Crawford, that 14 clearance cards, numbers 54 to 67, from Murton Lodge have been stolen and are not to be accepted, 16 March 1878 Minutes of committee meeting, giving names of individuals and 8 collieries, 26 March 1878 Minutes of committee meeting, giving names of individuals of individuals and collieries, 27 March 1878 Minutes of committee meeting, including names of individuals and collieries, 30 March 1878 Minutes of Joint Committee Meeting (Auckland District) giving names of individuals and collieries, 1 April 1878 Minutes of a Special Council Meeting concerning subscriptions to, and the work of, the Relief Fund; Hours of Working; and the Sliding Scale, 2 April 1878 Notice, addressed to the Members’ of the Durham Miners’ Association, announcing that the Relief Fund, established on 8 March 1877, is bankrupt, despite having taken £7,000 from the General Fund, and indicating that subscriptions to the fund must increase from 2d per fortnight to 5d per fortnight per member, or that payments must be reduced April 1878 Notice, issued by the Executive Committee, addressed to members of the concerning negotiations with the coal owners, in the matter of extended working hours and the Sliding Scale, 27 March 1878 List, issued by William Crawford, Secretary, of minutes and circulars ‘sent to the County’ from 1 January to March 1878, 27 March 1878 Circular informing the members of the that a clerk could be appointed to assist Mr Patterson and a boy to assist Mr. Wilkinson; asking whether a vote of thanks be given to Mr. MacDonald, M.P.; asking whether a representative should visit London to speak to Mr. Cross, the Home Secretary, concerning the Mines Bill; asking for the number of people from each place likely to attend the Miners’ Gala, April 1878 Minutes of Committee Meeting, giving names of individuals and collieries, 8 April 1878 List, issued by the Executive Committee, of appeals to the Relief Fund, giving names of collieries and individuals, 13 April 1878 Programme of Ordinary Council Meeting, giving names of collieries and individuals, 27 April 1878 Circular addressed to the members of the Durham Miners’ Association Minutes of Committee Meeting, including names of collieries and individuals, 15 April 1878 Minutes of Committee Meeting, including names of collieries and individuals, 16 April 1878 Minutes of Joint Committee Meeting (East District) giving names of collieries, 26 April 1878 Minutes of Committee Meeting, giving names of individuals and collieries, 22 April 1878 Minutes of Committee Meeting giving names of individuals and collieries, 29 April 1878 Minutes of Ordinary Council Meeting, including names of individuals and collieries, 27 May 1878 Circular, addressed to members of the Durham Miners’ Association, concerning the Award by E.J. Meynell that working hours may be increased from 10 to 11 hours per day and instructing the members to report any attempt to make the shift longer than 11 hours and any attempt to push the hour onto the foreshift in the morning, 16 April 1878 Results, listed by colliery, of a ballot on whether Mr Prentice should have a grant of £50, n.d. April-May 1878 List, by colliery, giving the number of men idle through lock-out, strike, or depression of trade, 2 May 1878 Minutes of Committee Meeting, giving names of individuals and collieries, 4 May 1878 Minutes of Joint Committee Meeting (North District), 10 May 1878 Circular, addressed to members of the Durham Miners’ Association, requesting Lodges to send in candidates for the 2 posts of clerk, suggested by the Committee, 13 May 1878 Minutes of Committee Meeting, giving names of individuals and collieries, 13 May 1878 Minutes of Committee Meeting, giving names of individuals and collieries, 14 May 1878 Notice indicating that ‘men who are ‘unfinancial’ but one penny or one day outside rule time’, will receive no financial support, n.d., May 1878 Minutes of Joint Committee Meeting (Auckland District) giving names of collieries, 21 May 1878 Circular, addressed to the members of the Durham Miners’ Association, informing them of the bankruptcy of the Relief Fund, listing the collieries where men are receiving relief, recommending the immediate cessation of the Relief Fund levy on members and the cessation of the payment of Relief Fund after12 weeks, 27 May 1878 Minutes of Committee Meeting, giving names of individuals and collieries, 27 May 1878 Minutes of Committee Meeting, giving names of individuals and collieries, 28 May 1878 Minutes of Committee Meeting, giving names of individuals and collieries, 29 May 1878 Minutes of Committee Meeting, giving names of individuals and collieries, 3 June 18788 Notice giving the correct date of the Council Meeting of the Durham Miners’ Association, 5 June 1878 Minutes of Committee Meeting, giving names of individuals and collieries, 7 June 1878 Minutes of Committee Meeting, giving names of individuals and collieries, 10 June 1878 Minutes of Joint Committee Meeting (East District), giving names of collieries, 11 June 1878 Programme of Ordinary Council Meeting, giving names of individuals and collieries, 15 June 1878 List of Appeals giving names of individuals and collieries, 4 June 1878 Minutes of Special and Ordinary Council Meeting, giving names of individuals and collieries, 15 June 1878 Minutes of Council Meeting, giving names of individuals and collieries, 17 June 1878 Minutes of Council Meeting, giving names of individuals and collieries, 18 June 1878 List of ‘Nominees for Committee’, giving name and colliery of the individual, 18 June 1878 Circular, addressed to Members of the Durham Miners’ Association, encouraging attendance at the Gala and the bringing of bands and banners, 17 June 1878 Voting paper for members of the Executive Committee, 29 June 1878 List of four people elected to serve on the Committee, 1 July 1878 Circular describing in detail the situation at Thrislington Colliery, where the men are appealing for strike pay, but where the colliery is closed because of the depression of trade, 10 June 1878 Minutes of Committee Meeting, giving names of individuals and collieries, 24 June 1878 Minutes of Committee Meeting, giving names of individuals and collieries, 25 June 1878 Minutes of Committee Meeting, giving names of individuals and collieries, 29 June 1878 Minutes of Joint Committee Meeting (North District), giving names of collieries, 28 June 1878 Circular, addressed to the members of the Durham Miners’ Association, announcing that there will be no speaking from the windows of the County Hotel, at the Gala, 25 June 1878 Ballot paper on which the members of the may express their opinion as to whether the miners at Thrislington Colliery are entitled to a Lock-Out Allowance, and giving the text of a letter from Thrislington Lodge to Mr. Morrison, the owner of Thrislington Colliery, June 1878 List of circular, minutes, appeals, ballot papers, sent to the members of the between April and June 1878, 12 June 1878 Formerly numbered as D/DMA Vol 2 Indexed in ‘Mining Durham’s Hidden Depths’ https://durhamrecordoffice.org.uk/search-options/search-durhams-hidden-depths/ – From: Minutes and circulars,Minutes of Council, committee, joint committee and Durham County Mining Federation meetings and circulars sent to Lodges