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Board of Trade: Enemy Debts Clearing Office: Files
Catalogue reference: BT 203
What's it about?
BT 203
Files of the Enemy Debts Clearing Office relating to postwar private ownership claims and their arbitration.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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BT 203
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Trade: Enemy Debts Clearing Office: Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1912-1940
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files of the Enemy Debts Clearing Office relating to postwar private ownership claims and their arbitration.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For Custodian of Enemy Property records see records of the Public trustee: PT
For files of the Trading with the Enemy and Administration of Enemy Property Departments see BT 271
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Board of Trade, Enemy Debts Clearing Office, 1920-1936
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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88 file(s)
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- Topics
- Trade and commerce
- Debt
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Under the Trading with the Enemy Amendment Act 1914 the Board of Trade appointed the Public Trustee to be a custodian of enemy property in England and Wales.
The Enemy Debts Clearing Office was established on 12 January 1920 under the Treaty of Peace Order 1919 to to administer claims by British nationals on ex-enemy property, and claims by ex-enemies on property held by British nationals which were left in abeyance during the war.
The Office absorbed the Trading with The Enemy Branch of the Public Trustee Office in January 1925 and on 1 April 1927 absorbed the Russian Claims Department, which had passed to the board from the Foreign Office in August 1920. The office ceased to exist on 21 March 1936, when it was replaced by an Enemy Property Branch of the Solicitor's Department.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3241/
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