City Assessor’s Department

D-CA1: Not allocated

D-CA2: Registers of voters, 1832, 1856 - 1880, 1920 - 1939, 1945 - 1975

D-CA3: Valuation rolls, 1913 - 1975

D-CA4: Supplementary valuation rolls, 1926 - 1959

D-CA5: Street Lists, various dates covering 1913 - 1975

D-CA6: Property Indexes, 1884 - 1960

D-CA7: Press cuttings books, 1909 - 1951

D-CA8: Photographic Survey of Properties, c1900, 1921 - 1941, c1957

D-CA9: Annual Abridgements of Sasines for Glasgow, 1924 - 1965

D-CA10: Photographs of advertisement hoardings and bookstalls, 1936

D-CA11: Files relating to the conduct of the census, 1881 - 1911

D-CA12: Papers relating to Belgian refugees in Glasgow, 1914 - 1920

D-CA13: Index of properties rouped at Faculty Hall, Glasgow, 1884 - 1911.

This department had the statutory functions of valuation of lands and property, the compilation of the annual valuation roll and the registration of voters (Lands Valuation (Scotland) Act 1854, 17 & 18 Vict., c.91; Burgh Voters Registration (Scotland) Act 1856, 19 & 20 Vict., c.58, and succeeding Acts).

Under the 1856 Act (later amended), the sheriff was required to hold annual Burgh Registration Courts to revise the electoral roll, that is, to dispose of claims to be enrolled, or objections against electors already on the roll. In the 1890s valuation was highly complex, with 24 separate assessments, some paid by owners, some by occupiers, and some shared equally between them. The department continued until 1975, when it transferred to Strathclyde Regional Council.

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Access restrictions may apply. Please contact the Archives for further information.

Descriptive list available at Glasgow City Archives (some uncatalogued material)

Computer indexes are available for the valuation rolls for 1861, 1881 and 1911

Database of photographs, some of which are also available on the Virtual Mitchell (www.mitchelllibrary.org)

Application for reproduction should be made to the Archivist

Glasgow City Archives, Glasgow Burgh Appeal Court, B7, 1858 - 1960