Record revealed
Request for compensation for the Boston Tea Party
On 16 December 1773, 340 chests of tea were thrown into Boston harbour by protesting colonists. This letter from the East India Company requests reimbursement.
Series
Ministry of Fuel and Power and Ministry of Power: Statistics and Planning Division...
Catalogue reference: POWE 28
What's it about?
POWE 28
The papers in this series include departmental committee reports and parliamentary papers relative to the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act, 1946, together with regulations imposed under this legislation. Papers of the Coal Industry...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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POWE 28
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Fuel and Power and Ministry of Power: Statistics and Planning Division and successors: Registered Files (BB, GEN, PLN, RL, STATS/GEN and STATS/P Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1935-1967
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Description (What the record is about)
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The papers in this series include departmental committee reports and parliamentary papers relative to the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act, 1946, together with regulations imposed under this legislation. Papers of the Coal Industry Nationalisation Compensation Tribunal are also in this series. Other files relate to national fuel policy, electricity tariffs and legislation on town and country planning. There are files of the Statistics and Planning, Economics and Statistics, Budget and Priorities and Statistics and General Divisions of the Ministry of Fuel and Power, later the Ministry of Power.
Contains RL files otherwise kept in POWE 55
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Chronological
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For files in the SD series produced by the Fuel and Power Statistics Division (and successors) of the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of Energy, see: FV 19
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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POWE 28/1-8 have been transferred to POWE 57:
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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BB, GEN, PLN, RL, STATS/GEN and STATS/P file series
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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339 file(s)
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11844/
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Ministry of Fuel and Power and Ministry of Power: Statistics and Planning Division and successors: Registered Files (BB, GEN, PLN, RL, STATS/GEN and STATS/P Series)
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