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Board of Excise and successor: Miscellaneous Bundles
Catalogue reference: CUST 119
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CUST 119
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, petitions, technical papers etc. of the Board of Excise (to 1849), then of the Excise Branch of the Board of Inland Revenue, relating to the powers and many of the activities of the boards and their local...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CUST 119
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Excise and successor: Miscellaneous Bundles
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1806-1900
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Description (What the record is about)
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Correspondence, memoranda, reports, petitions, technical papers etc. of the Board of Excise (to 1849), then of the Excise Branch of the Board of Inland Revenue, relating to the powers and many of the activities of the boards and their local offices. The subjects covered include the duties on beer, spirits, paper, tobacco, soap and railway passengers, the licensing of carriages, the judicial activities of the commissioners of the boards, and the boards' establishment and administrative structure. Also included are the papers of William Knight Delany, Solicitor to the Board of Excise (1826-1840), and correspondence with the Treasury (1815-1854).
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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)
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- Board of Excise, 1642-1849
- Board of Inland Revenue, 1849-2005
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 472 bundles, files and papers
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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1988-2003 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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- Topics
- Railways
- Taxation
- Food and drink
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No further accruals are anticipated
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
- Correspondence, memoranda, reports, petitions, technical papers etc. of the Board of Excise (to 1849), then of the Excise Branch of the Board of Inland Revenue, relating to the powers and many of the activities of the boards and their local offices. The subjects covered include the duties on beer, spirits, paper, tobacco, soap and railway passengers, the licensing of carriages, the judicial activities of the commissioners of the boards, and the boards' establishment and administrative structure. Also included are the papers of William Knight Delany, Solicitor to the Board of Excise (1826-1840), and correspondence with the Treasury (1815-1854).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5695/
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