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Board of Trade: Companies Registration Office: Files of Joint Stock Companies Registered...
Catalogue reference: BT 41
What's it about?
BT 41
This series contains the files of all Joint Stock Companies which were registered under the Act of 1844 and dissolved before 1856, and of those re-registered under the 1856 Act. The files are likely to include some or all of the following: name,...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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BT 41
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Trade: Companies Registration Office: Files of Joint Stock Companies Registered under the 1844 and 1856 Acts
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Date (When the record was created)
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1844-c1860
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains the files of all Joint Stock Companies which were registered under the Act of 1844 and dissolved before 1856, and of those re-registered under the 1856 Act.
The files are likely to include some or all of the following:
- name, purpose and address of the business;
- names of the company's promoters and their solicitors;
- a prospectus;
- details of capital, issue and allocation of shares and balance sheets.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
BT 41/1-781 comprise a general file sub-series and are listed in alphabetical order by company title.
BT 41/782-926 are for a railway sub-series and are listed in alphabetical 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)
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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926 box(es)
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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
- Trade and commerce
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3084/
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: BT
Records of the Board of Trade and of successor and related bodies
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Board of Trade: Companies Registration Office: Files of Joint Stock Companies Registered under the 1844 and 1856 Acts
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