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Charity Commission: City of London Parochial Charities Act 1883: Memoranda and Reports
Catalogue reference: CHAR 14
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CHAR 14
This series consists of statements, memoranda, reports and schemes relating to the administration of the City of London Parochial Charities Act 1883.The volumes record the public procedures required by Part II of the Act (ss 5-10) and were...
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CHAR 14
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Title (The name of the record)
- Charity Commission: City of London Parochial Charities Act 1883: Memoranda and Reports
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Date (When the record was created)
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1886-1892
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of statements, memoranda, reports and schemes relating to the administration of the City of London Parochial Charities Act 1883.
The volumes record the public procedures required by Part II of the Act (ss 5-10) and were compiled at some later date by the Commission for its own business purposes.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Charity Commission Secretariat papers for 1883-1894 relating to the City of London Parochial Charities Department can be found in CHAR 3/27
Papers relating to City of London parishes for 1817-1850 are in
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Charity Commission, 1853-1853
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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2 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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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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- Topics
- Charities
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No future accruals expected
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The City of London Parochial Charities Act 1883 gave the Charity Commissioners authority to deal with misappropriated and unapplied funds among charities administered by individual parish vestries in areas where the residential population had declined.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15137/
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Charity Commission: City of London Parochial Charities Act 1883: Memoranda and Reports
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