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Folio 99. Letter from W E Goodacre, Clerk to the Guardians of the Mansfield Poor...

Catalogue reference: MH 12/9368/73

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MH 12/9368/73
Date
1864 May 24
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Folio 99. Letter from W E Goodacre, Clerk to the Guardians of the Mansfield Poor Law Union, to the Poor Law Board, asking if there is a scale of allowances made by assessment committees to overseers and parish officers for attending assessment meetings, etc. The committee not yet having finished their work, and future meetings being necessary, Goodacre asks if these claims should be shown in their accounts to Lady Day 1864, and if present overseers should pay their predecessors.

Annotated: the assessment committee have no authority to pay overseers, and must render their accounts to the guardians, who will charge the Common Fund. The Board can give no opinion on suitable amounts of allowances. W G L [William Golden Lumley, Assistant Secretary to the Poor Law Board].

Paper Number: 20514/1864.

Poor Law Union Number: 337.

Counties: Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.

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