Bound volume, MCC principal committee minutes [1892-1907]. Includes annual reports, reports on annual general meetings and anniversary dinners, newspaper cuttings and correspondence.
Items include:
Agreements to welcome the Australian team to play in England in 1893, 14 November 1892
Unanimous decision to resolve that instructions to umpires should be appended to the Laws of Cricket, 8 May 1893
Discussion of Law 53 which enforced the side batting second to follow-on if they were 80 runs behind, 12 March 1894
Decision to include Derbyshire, Warwickshire, Essex and Leicestershire County Cricket Clubs as part of the counties entitled to play First-Class County Cricket, 2 May 1894
Further discussion of Law 53 with the decision that the law be approved but the number of runs extended to 120 for a three-day match and 80 in a two-day match, 28 May 1894
Details of revised rules for the County Championship, 9 July 1894
Minutes of special general meeting to resolve to alter Law 53 to make the side batting second follow on if they were more than 120 runs behind the other team in a three-day match or 80 runs for a two-day match, 10 July 1894
Resolution by committee to invite an Australian team to play in England in 1896, 29 July 1895
Announcement that committee had received information from H Perkins who wished to resign his position as Secretary, 11 December 1897
Unanimous decision of the committee to appoint F E Lacey as Perkins' replacement, 20 December 1897
Recommendations made by the Committee to appoint F E Lacey to Secretary and the Duke of Buccleuch as a Trustee, 28 February 1898
List of sub-committees established which were Finance, Cricket Selection, Refreshment, Tennis and Racquet, and Property and Works, and list of members of each Sub-Committee, 16 May 1898
Arrangements for an Australian XI to visit England in 1899, 13 June 1898
Decision to erect a temporary stand east of the old Tennis Court, 20 June 1898
Newspaper cutting announcing that the MCC had named the Board of Control which would govern home Test Matches between England and Australia, 10 October 1898
Approval of plans for the Mound Stand on the South East of the ground, 10 October 1898
Minutes of meetings of the board responsible for governing future home Test Matches with Australia which included an agreement not to extend matches beyond three days and an agreement that they would be responsible for team selection, 24 October 1898
Recommendations to empower umpires to call a 'No ball' if not satisfied by the bowlers delivery, 12 December 1898
Approval to use appeal 'How's that?' to cover all ways of being out, 9 January 1899
Alterations recommended to the committee relating to qualifying for counties by residence, and transferring to other counties, 5 December 1898
Copy of agreement between MCC and Middlesex County Cricket Club relating to Middlesex's use of Lord's, 24 April 1899
Announcement in annual report that a Large Stand [Mound Stand] had been built which it was hoped would accommodate about 10,000 members, 3 May 1899
Selection of MCC team to play Australia [in 1899], 17 July 1899
Minutes of special general meeting to adopt alterations to Laws 10 and 48 allowing umpires to call 'No ball' if not satisfied with the delivery, 31 July 1899
Recommendation by Cricket Sub-Committee that there should be six balls per over, 30 October 1899
Notice by Lord Harris that he would approve W G Grace for Life Membership, 30 October 1899 (carried 11 December 1899)
Proposal by A Lyttelton that the leg before wicket should be altered to declare batsman out if they stop the ball with parts of their person which in the opinion of the umpire is in a straight line between bowler and wicket, 12 February 1900
Decision to invite opinions on altering the Law 24 (leg before wicket) amongst cricket clubs both at home and abroad, 12 March 1900
Approval of law that there should be six balls an over, 2 May 1900
Approval of changes to Law 53 that the side which leads by 150 would require the other team to follow-on in a three day match and 100 for a two-day match, and Law 54 that the batting side may declare between lunch and close of play on the second day of a three-day match, or at any time in a one day or two-day match, 21 May 1900
Minutes of meeting of First-Class Umpires, 3 September 1900
Minutes of meeting of First-Class County Captains, 10 December 1900
Decision by MCC to administer English tours to Australia, 7 January 1901
Announcement that MCC would become responsible for the next English team to tour Australia, 1 May 1901
Results of a vote for a proposed alteration to Law 24 (leg before wicket) which was not carried, 1 May 1901
Decision to abandon the visit to Australia in 1901, 13 May 1901
Report by secretary that Cricket coaching would be given in the Large Mound Stand bar, 10 February 1902
Announcement that Minor Counties would trial alterations to Law 24 (leg before wicket), 7 May 1902
Report that Minor Counties did not approve of the proposal to Law 24, 6 May 1903
Notification of alterations to Law 54 that in a two-day match a captain could not declare on the first day later than 1 hour 40 minutes before stumps, request asking MCC to send an English team to Australia and recommendation that F S Jackson would captain the team if it took place, 18 May 1903
Report by Cricket and Selection Sub-Committee that F S Jackson would not be able to go to Australia and that P F Warner would be asked to captain the team, 8 June 1903
List of players invited and conditions for the Australian tour in 1903-1904, 22 June 1903
Report of special meeting to consider widening the wicket from eight to nine inches which was not carried, 6 May 1903
Unanimous resolution to invite an Australian team to visit England in 1905 to play 5 Test Matches with the last Test to be played to a finish, 4 July 1904
Discussion of a letter from South African Cricket Association asking the MCC to send a team to play in South Africa, 6 February 1905, invitation to players to represent the MCC team in South Africa including J R Mason as captain, 3 July 1905
Decision by J R Mason to not accompany the MCC team to South Africa and decision to ask P F Warner to be captain, 24 July 1905
Request of Secretary to arrange fixtures for the West Indies' tour of England in 1906, 31 October 1905
Approval of alteration to Law 54 that in a two-day match a captain was not allowed to declare until 1 hour and 40 minutes before the close of play on day one, 2 May 1906
Decision to commence arrangements for an MCC tour of New Zealand, 11 June 1906
Recommendation that E G Wynyard be captain of the MCC team to tour New Zealand [1906-07], 19 July 1906
Letter from W H Patterson, Trustee of the Murdoch Testimonial Fund to William Findlay, relating to the Murdoch Testimonial fund, 2 January 1931
Letter referring to 'Cambridge incident' that contravened Law 37 (substitutes) requesting that the minutes for 4 August 1904 be looked at again, nd