Folio 701. Letter from Mr Gething and Mr Cripwell, members of the committee appointed...

Folio 701. Letter from Mr Gething and Mr Cripwell, members of the committee appointed by the vestry and ratepayers of the parish of Mansfield Woodhouse, Mansfield Poor Law Union, to the Poor Law Board, in reply to their letter of 17 October 1963. It informs them that the audit they refer to and apply to have re-opened was held at the board room, Mansfield, on 25 June 1863, by Mr Davis, [H J Davis, District Auditor for Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire]. They did not attend before the auditor as they had not seen the vaccination fees, the payment having been paid by the board of guardians, therefore not entered in the overseers' account book. They did not know about it until the guardians for the parish produced the half yearly statement of charge against the respective parishes in the union, which he received after the audit and raised the excessive charges for vaccination fees against the parish compared with other parishes in the union, at the vestry meeting. A committee was appointed to investigate and resulted in them writing to the local board of guardians on 15 August 1863, a copy of which they have sent to the Board. No reply has been received from the local board. They request that the Board allow them to bring the matter forward at the next half yearly audit [copy not included].

Annotated: 'Mr Lumley', [William Golden Lumley, Assistant Secretary to the Poor Law Board], 'Do you think it advisable to send a copy to the auditor on this subject?' 20 October 1863.

Also annotated: point out the proper mode of appeal.

Paper Number: 37066/1863.

Poor Law Union Number: 337.

Counties: Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.