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Series
Board of Customs: Extra and Intra-Departmental Correspondence
Catalogue reference: CUST 33
What's it about?
CUST 33
This series consists of correspondence between the Board of Customs and its subordinate courts in Custom House, London and the outports. The precise work of each court is not clear.The records illustrate a certain number of activities and...
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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CUST 33
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Customs: Extra and Intra-Departmental Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
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1809-1906
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of correspondence between the Board of Customs and its subordinate courts in Custom House, London and the outports. The precise work of each court is not clear.
The records illustrate a certain number of activities and responsibilities of the board. The board was responsible for the collection of customs and the prevention of fraud. There are specific records relating to these functions including: the receivership of wrecks, quarantine procedures, delimitation of ports, legal wharves and sufferance wharves. The commercial device of 'drawback' and the development of bond warehousing are also covered by the series.
Non-revenue collection responsibilities of the board, as reflected in the records, include the payment of service pensions in the outports.
Other records concern Custom House, London: its destruction by fire and re-building after 1813 (which entailed the loss of much material of historical worth). There are other files relating to the fabric and accommodation of Customs Houses in the outports.
In addition to Great Britain, some files concern the West Indies and New South Wales.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Broadly chronological under the branches dealing with the work or, in some cases, types of record.
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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)
- Board of Customs, 1671-1909
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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427 papers and volumes
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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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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1992 Board of Customs and Excise
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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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No future accruals expected.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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Prior to transfer the records were apparently substantially weeded.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5610/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
39,788 records
Within the department: CUST
Records of the Boards of Customs, Excise, and Customs and Excise, and HM Revenue...
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Board of Customs: Extra and Intra-Departmental Correspondence
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