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• Parliamentary Law: Method of Transacting Business in Deliberate Assemblies, Uses of the Various Motions, Method of Conducting Elections, the Duties of Members and Officers, Discipline, Model By-Laws, Forms and Definitions of Parliamentary Terms (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts Inc., c1923), by Henry M. Robert (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Not Written in Stone: Jews, Constitutions, and Constitutionalism in Canada (c2003), ed. by Daniel Judah Elazar, Michael Brown, and Ira Robinson (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)

• By-Laws of the Michigan State Reform School (1869), by Michigan Boys Vocational School (page images at MOA)

• Archaeologia Scotica: Transactions of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (full serial archives)

• Constitutional Provisions, Laws and By-Laws of the University of Michigan, by University of Michigan (page images at MOA)

• The Yukon Gazette, by Yukon (partial serial archives)

• An Act of the Legislature of Alabama Creating a Commission Form of Government Under Which the City of Birmingham is Now Organized, In Effect March 31, 1911 (Montgomery, AL: Brown Printing Co., 1911), by Alabama (page images at HathiTrust)

• Columbus Charter, Amended (1921), by Columbus (Ga.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Charter of the City of East Saginaw, by Saginaw (Michigan) (page images at MOA)

• Bay City Charter, Rules of Common Council & Ordinances, by Bay City (Mich.) (page images at MOA)

• An Act of the Legislature of Alabama Creating a Commission Form of Government Under Which the City of Birmingham is Now Organized, In Effect March 31, 1911 (Montgomery, AL: Brown Printing Co., 1911), by Alabama (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Boston, Together With the Acts of the Legislature Relating to the City (Boston: J. H. Eastburn, 1850), by Boston (Mass.), ed. by Peleg W. Chandler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• An Act to Provide for the Incorporation of Cities and Villages, by Illinois (page images at MOA)

• Columbus Charter, Amended (1921), by Columbus (Ga.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Charter of the City of Detroit as Amended, Together with Acts of the Legislature Relating to the City (1867 edition), by Detroit (Mich.) (page images at MOA)
• Revised Charter (As Amended,) of the City of Detroit (1859 edition), by Detroit (Mich.) (page images at MOA)
• The Revised Charter and Ordinances of the City of Detroit (1855 edition), by Detroit (Mich.) (page images at MOA)

• Charter and Supplemental Charter of the Hudson's Bay Company, by Hudson's Bay Company (Gutenberg text)

• The Revised Charter & Ordinances of the City of Kenosha, with the By-Laws of the Council, by Kenosha (Wis.) (page images at MOA)

• Charter of the City of Lansing (1859), by Lansing (Michigan) (page images at MOA)

• Meeting the Challenge of Charter Reform, by Kevin F. McCarthy, Steven P. Erie, and Robert E. Reichardt (PDF files with commentary at rand.org)

• Revising the New York City Charter: Introductory Report (ca. 1973), by State Charter Revision Commission for New York City (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Richmond (Richmond, VA: J. E. Goode, city printer, 1875), by Richmond (Va.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Charter of the City of East Saginaw, by Saginaw (Michigan) (page images at MOA)

• Charter of the City of San Diego, Adopted March 16, 1889 (San Diego: Putnam Field, printer, 1893), by San Diego (Calif.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charter of the City of San Diego, California (current version of 1931 charter as amended), by San Diego (Calif.) (PDF files at sandiego.gov)

• The Three Charters of the Virginia Company of London, With Seven Related Documents, 1606-1621 (Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet #4; Williamsburg: Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, 1957), ed. by Samuel Merrifield Bemiss (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory: Essays From the Sawyer Seminar (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), ed. by Francis X. Blouin and William G. Rosenberg (page images at HathiTrust)

• Digital Archives and Collections: Creating Online Access to Cultural Heritage (Anthropology of Media v11; New York and Oxford: Berghahn, c2021), by Katja Müller (PDF and EPub with commentary at Berghahn Books)

• The Establishment, Organization, Activities and Aspirations of the Department of Archives and History of the State of Alabama (Department bulletin #1, bound with some other bulletins; Montgomery, AL: Brown Printing Co., 1904), by Alabama Department of Archives and History, ed. by Thomas McAdory Owen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Archivo General de la República Argentina (second series, 14 volumes in Spanish: Buenos Aires: G. Kraft, 1894-1899), ed. by Adolfo P. Carranza
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Tomo I-II (Período de la Independencia, Año 1810): PDF at Wikimedia Commons
  • Tomo III-IV (Período Colonial: Libros del Consulado): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Tomo V-VI (Período de la Independencia, Año 1810-1811): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Tomo VII-VIII (Período de la Independencia, Año 1811-1813): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Tomo IX-X (Causa de Algaza): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Tomo XI-XII (Causa de Algaza, Conclusion; Invasiones Inglesas): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Tomo XIII (Proceso de Residencia): PDF at Wikimedia Commons
  • Tomo XIV (Proceso Sobre la Evasión del General Beresford, 1807): PDF at Wikimedia Commons
• Documentos del Archivo de San Martín (12 volumes in Spanish; Buenos Aires: Impr. de Coni Hermanos, 1910-1911), ed. by Museo Mitre (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Modern Archives: Principles and Techniques (reprint with new introduction; Chicago: Society of American Archivists, c2003), by T. R. Schellenberg, contrib. by H. G. Jones (PDF at archivists.org)
• Oral History Cataloging Manual (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1995), ed. by Marion E. Matters (PDF at archivists.org)
• Digital Archives and Collections: Creating Online Access to Cultural Heritage (Anthropology of Media v11; New York and Oxford: Berghahn, c2021), by Katja Müller (PDF and EPub with commentary at Berghahn Books)

• The Archive in Motion: New Conceptions of the Archive in Contemporary Thought and New Media Practices (Oslo: Novus Press, c2010), ed. by Eivind Røssaak (multiple formats in Norway)

• From Handwriting to Footprinting: Text and Heritage in the Age of Climate Crisis (Cambridge, UK: OpenBook Publishers, c2023), by Anne Baillot (PDF files with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• An Exact Abridgement of the Records in the Tower of London, From the Reign of King Edward the Second, Unto King Richard the Third, of All the Parliaments Holden in Each Kings Reign, and the Several Acts in Every Parliament; Together With the Names and Titles of All the Dukes, Marquesses, Earls, Viscounts, and Barons, Summoned To Every of the Said Parliaments (originally collected by Cotton, revised by Prynne; London: Printed for W. Leake, 1657), ed. by Robert Cotton and William Prynne, contrib. by Robert Bowyer and William Morrell
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at EEBO TCP

• Management of Archives and Manuscript Collections for Librarians (reprinted from the Drexel Library Quarterly, 1975; this edition Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1980), ed. by Richard H. Lytle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Interactive Archivist: Case Studies in Utilizing Web 2.0 to Improve the Archival Experience (Society of American Archivists, 2009), by J. Gordon Daines and Cory L. Nimer (HTML at archivists.org)
• A Manual of Archive Administration, Including the Problems of War Archives and Archive Making (Oxford, UK, et al.: At the Clarendon Press, 1922), by Hilary Jenkinson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• An Inventory of Universalist Archives in Massachusetts (1942), by Historical Records Survey (Mass.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report on the Public Archives of Michigan (Washington: GPO, 1901), by Harlow S. Person (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Ontario Archives: Scope of its Operations (reprinted from the Annual Report of the American Historical Association, 1913), by Alexander Fraser (Gutenberg text)

• Archival Issues (full serial archives)
• Archivaria (partial serial archives)
• The Midwestern Archivist (full serial archives)
• Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Archivalische Zeitschrift (partial serial archives)

• Introduction to Archival Organization and Description (Los Angeles: Getty Information Institute, c1998), by Michael J. Fox and Peter L. Wilkerson, ed. by Susanne R. Warren (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Archives and Manuscripts: Public Programs (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1982), by Ann E. Pederson and Gail E. Farr (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.