Record revealed
Request for compensation for the Boston Tea Party
On 16 December 1773, 340 chests of tea were thrown into Boston harbour by protesting colonists. This letter from the East India Company requests reimbursement.
Series
Charity Commission: Rejected Charitable Status Case Files
Catalogue reference: CHAR 17
What's it about?
CHAR 17
This series contains case files relating to organisations whose application for charitable status was challenged. Some were rejected, and some were reinstated after amendments to their governing document, or on appeal to the High Court. The files...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CHAR 17
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Title (The name of the record)
- Charity Commission: Rejected Charitable Status Case Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1960-2001
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains case files relating to organisations whose application for charitable status was challenged. Some were rejected, and some were reinstated after amendments to their governing document, or on appeal to the High Court. The files generally contain the original application to the Charity Commission, internal minutes and correspondence, a 'reasoned statement' from the legal advisers in support of the organisations application, newsletters and other evidence in support of the organisations' activities, records on the consultation with the Inland Revenue, and in some cases, papers relating to the Treasury Solicitor's preparation of the case before it went to Court.
In the case of charities that were reinstated, the files often contain records of the subsequent activities of the charity, unconnected with the question of its status.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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The records are arranged in chronological order.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- 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)
- 38 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2002 Charity Commission
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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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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- File series ran from 1961 to 1995
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- This series relates to section 2.2.2.1 of the PRO's Acquisition Policy (the economic, social and demographic condition of the UK). Selected cases of unusual interest, mostly registered later following a redraft of objects or an appeal to the High Court. These cases effectively define the boundary of charitable status at the time of creation.
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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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With the implementation of the Charities Act 1960 and the creation of the first public register of charities, the Charity Commission effectively became responsible for determining the charitable status of organisations when it decided which should be entered on the register. This had previously been determined by the Inland Revenue in deciding whether to grant tax concessions.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15701/
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Within the department: CHAR
Records of the Charity Commissioners and Charity Commission
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Charity Commission: Rejected Charitable Status Case Files
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