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Commissioners of Audit: Declared and Passed Accounts (In Books)

Catalogue reference: AO 2

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AO 2

Accounts (including some accounts of earlier date than 1829) which had to be declared before the Chancellor of the Exchequer and also those accounts which under various statutes could be signed and passed by the Commissioners of Audit upon a...

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Reference

AO 2

Title
Commissioners of Audit: Declared and Passed Accounts (In Books)
Date

1803-1848

Description

Accounts (including some accounts of earlier date than 1829) which had to be declared before the Chancellor of the Exchequer and also those accounts which under various statutes could be signed and passed by the Commissioners of Audit upon a Treasury warrant, such as the Sheriffs' and the Irish accounts. The series includes details of payments of first fruits.

In 1829 the commissioners adopted a new method of preparing the accounts for declaration. Instead of each being preserved in a separate roll as before, accounts were written out on sheets of paper of a uniform size to be bound together eventually in book form.

Arrangement

The folio numbers of each volume where individual accounts are described are reflected in the catalogue references for the items.

Related material

Signed and passed accounts are in AO 22

Later accounts are in AO 20

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
Commissioners of Audit, 1785-1866
Physical description

92 volume(s)

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2359/

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Commissioners of Audit: Declared and Passed Accounts (In Books)