Folios 711-714. Letter from Walter May Barton, Clerk to the Guardians of the Mitford...

Folios 711-714. Letter from Walter May Barton, Clerk to the Guardians of the Mitford and Launditch Poor Law Union, to the Local Government Board. He informs the Board that the Bawdeswell Parish Property was sold by public auction on 28 October 1880 in two lots. Bond Jonathan Woodhouse was the purchaser of both lots. Lot one at the price of £255 and lot two at £90. He is in receipt of the draft conveyance from the purchaser's solicitors and has approved the same on behalf of the guardians. He encloses the conveyance for the approval of the Local Government Board. Also enclosed is a copy of the printed particulars and conditions. The date fixed for completion is 3 December 1880, so he would be pleased to have the draft returned as soon as possible.
Particulars and conditions of sale by Messrs Hickling and Dixon are for a messuage and land situated in the parish of Bawdeswell within the Mitford and Launditch Poor Law Union. It includes maps showing the position of the pieces of land as The Common Lane and along the Norwich and Fakenham Turnpike adjoining the Reepham Road. It specifies that Lot one is a messuage, with outbuildings and garden in the occupation of William Whiteside with a piece of arable land, called the 'Camping Ground', also in Whitesides' occupation. Lot 2 is a piece of arable and in the occupation of Richard Rix, adjoining the Common Lane. Both are Freehold.
Annotated: 'Mr Fry. This draft conveyance is in the ordinary form of conveyance of parish property (although no such form was enclosed with the Board's letter of 18 November 1879) but I do not think it will quite do under the peculiar circumstances of this case.
If the purchaser's money is all paid to the Guardian's Treasurer the Board will have to issue an order firsts appropriation to pay the charge of £180 [unreadable] (and perhaps some of the others liabilities which are said to attach to the property). But as that charge was [unreadable] by the same deed, and conveyed the property for the benefit of the parishes I think it of the interest thereon should be defrayed by payment of the purchase money to the [unreadable] untitled to the £180 and interest, and that this should be done in the present conveyance the money being to paid by the direction of the guardians. If there is any balance (the property has realised £145 more than was anticipated) perhaps the Board could authorise its application to payment of the and their liabilities under 1 & 2 Vic c 25 as intended by 5 & 6 Vic c 18 or in the same manner as the debts of the old [Hereonbury] Incorporation were defrayed on the sale of their workhouse. The alteration in the draft which I have suggested as regards the £180 and interest would not necessitate an alteration in the sale order as that order only applies to the interest of the Parishes, which interest is subsequent to the interest of the [unreadable] entitled to that sum. The pay cut of this and their liabilities and possible alteration of the order consequent therein can await until it is certain whether there will be any balance after the payment of £180 and arrears of interest', 20 December 1880.
Annotated: 'As to the £180, I concur in Mr Boyce's suggestion as to the other claims, it will be best to inquire, first, what is proposed to be done', 23 December 1880.
Annotated: 'Prepare letter and refer draft to Mr Fry', 24 December 1880.
[See also paper number 91262/E/1880.]

Paper Number: 108452/1880.

Poor Law Union Number: 302.

Counties: Norfolk.