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Committee on Fees and Duties Payable to Public Funds on the Grant of Honours and...

Catalogue reference: T 202

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T 202

Minutes, correspondence, papers and draft reports of the Committee on Fees and Duties Payable to Public Funds on the Grant of Honours and Dignities chaired by Sir Claud Schuster.

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T 202
Title
Committee on Fees and Duties Payable to Public Funds on the Grant of Honours and Dignities (Shuster Committee): Minutes, Papers and Report
Date
1936-1938
Description

Minutes, correspondence, papers and draft reports of the Committee on Fees and Duties Payable to Public Funds on the Grant of Honours and Dignities chaired by Sir Claud Schuster.

Related material

For departmental files concerning the committee's work see: LCO 2/1528 LCO 2/1529 LCO 2/1530 LCO 2/1531 LCO 2/1532 LCO 2/1533

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The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)
Language
English
Creator(s)
Committee on Fees and Duties Payable to Public Funds on the Grant of Honours and Dignities, 1936-1938
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12 file(s)
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The Committee on Fees and Duties Payable to Public Funds on the Grant of Honours and Dignities (Schuster Committee) was appointed by a Treasury minute of 21 October 1936 'to enquire into the fees and duties payable to Public funds on the grant of honours and dignities by the Crown and on the appointment or promotion, whether by letters patent or warrant, to any office under the Crown, and to report whether any changes are advisable in the present law and practice relating thereto'. The Committee was chaired by Sir Claude Schuster, the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery and Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor.

It enquired first into fees and duties payable on honours and dignities, such as peerages and certain orders, and made an interim report on these in April 1937.

It continued by enquiring into fees and duties payable on Crown appointments to Offices including ecclesiastical appointments. Its final report was presented in May 1938.

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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13939/

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Committee on Fees and Duties Payable to Public Funds on the Grant of Honours and Dignities (Shuster Committee): Minutes, Papers and Report