Folios 151-152. Letter from Mr Parsons, Solicitor, Mansfield [Mansfield Poor Law...

Folios 151-152. Letter from Mr Parsons, Solicitor, Mansfield [Mansfield Poor Law Union], to the Poor Law Commission, stating that they were presenting a bill [not included]. This was for business done by them, as solicitors, for the parish of Mansfield in 1842, amounting to £7 13s 7d, as taxed by the deputy clerk of the peace for the county. They say the bill had been overlooked by their own clerks, in their accounts since 1842. They state that as the church wardens and overseers were quite satisfied that the money was owing, and ought to be paid, it was paid to them on 23 March 1847. They were now asking for assistance, as a consequence of Mr Power, the auditor, not feeling at liberty to allow this payment, because the bill was not delivered in due time, and therefore it was struck from the overseers accounts. Therefore, they would lose that money which they think manifestly unjust, unless the Commission authorise it. The church wardens and overseers agree this should be done, as shown by the signatures below, and they state they would be obliged if the Commission would give the matter consideration and reply at their convenience.

A written agreement signed by [illegible and J Bownes], churchwardens, and Samuel Allen and John Birks, overseers.

Annotated: the Commissioners have no power to allow the present overseers to pay this bill. They believe the rule of law to be perfectly clear and well established that all parochial claims would be discharged in the year which they were incurred, and by the officers who incurred them.

Paper Number: 13709/B/1847.

Poor Law Union Number: 337.

Counties: Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.