Record revealed
Request for compensation for the Boston Tea Party
On 16 December 1773, 340 chests of tea were thrown into Boston harbour by protesting colonists. This letter from the East India Company requests reimbursement.
Series
Board of Excise and successors: Treasury Papers
Catalogue reference: CUST 121
What's it about?
CUST 121
Correspondence on revenue matters between the Board of Excise and its successor, the Excise Branch of the Board of Inland Revenue, with the Treasury.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CUST 121
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Excise and successors: Treasury Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1816-1887
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Description (What the record is about)
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Correspondence on revenue matters between the Board of Excise and its successor, the Excise Branch of the Board of Inland Revenue, with the Treasury.
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1022 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Board of Customs and Excise , from 1992, in 2002
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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
- Taxation
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No further accruals expected
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- The registers in CUST 122 are an index to these papers as well as to others which have not survived.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5697/
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