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Photograph of the Jubilee Singers
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Series
Revenue Commissioners and Boards of Customs: Miscellaneous Books
Catalogue reference: CUST 21
What's it about?
CUST 21
Miscellaneous books from the Customs Board and Revenue Commissioners. Includes entry books of letters and reports, 1816 to 1857, registers of seizures, 1715 to 1786, and registers of informations, 1715 to 1752. There is also an entry book of...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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CUST 21
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Title (The name of the record)
- Revenue Commissioners and Boards of Customs: Miscellaneous Books
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Date (When the record was created)
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1856-1960
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Description (What the record is about)
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Miscellaneous books from the Customs Board and Revenue Commissioners. Includes entry books of letters and reports, 1816 to 1857, registers of seizures, 1715 to 1786, and registers of informations, 1715 to 1752. There is also an entry book of out-letters from Boston, America, 1768 to 1775; entry books of documents relating to the new custom house at Dublin, 1771 to 1781, and to the docks at Dublin and Waterford, 1819 to 1824; and a volume detailing the establishment at Bermuda, British Guiana and West Indies, c.1806.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Related material can be found in CUST 34
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Board of Customs, 1671-1909
- Commissioners of Inland Revenue, 1849-1987
- HM Revenue and Customs, 2005-2005
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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116 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5598/
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